sbrylski

Ha! I like it! Love the Untuckem song, I want a ringtone.

Ha! I like it! Love the Untuckem song, I want a ringtone.

Oh yeah, geography should definitely be on mine.

1) Tim Kitzrow Quotes 2) The Beatles 3) Baseball History 4) Dumb and Dumber 5) Obsolete Computer Hardware 6) Potent Potables

I have been to other places many times and Brett Favre is Brett Favre in Europe and Asia (not to the degree he is here) and obviously if any watched the Olympics Kobe and LeBron are loved on a global stage. But there are global soccer stars that you probably just don't know/care about. I think your perception is distorted because you see fans elsewhere also rooting for your team, but you don't root for their teams, so you assume its a one way street. Rugby too. There are some very passionate rugby fans and some worldwide household names. But inside American borders, nobody would stop them on a street corner if he was in his full gear.

I want a White Sox - Brewers World Series. Just seems to fit.

"I could go for some Ben between my Sheets a little later, if you know what I mean..." [makes a licking motion in the air]

I just caught the tail end of Jeopardy today, and one of the categories happened to be baseball. Your $2000 question, probably slightly paraphrased: Charlie Sheen's character in the movie Major League was a popular RP, which is short for this. [slaps forehead]

You have to have hands down the most interesting seats in the stadium.

I like Russ's solution, but know that its still not a description of clutch hitting. The problem with your bet is you didn't define (or didn't define properly) what clutch hitting is.

I'll second (or third) Cork, Ireland. I liked Cork better than London. I was there the weekend before St. Patrick's day. Got out to Blarney Castle too.

I've always wanted to visit Banff, Alberta.

Chichen Itza

Cool, thanks! A nice little piece, but it would have been better with some more video outside of a few swings in the HR derby. For me anyway.

That article is guay.

s stands for Sam brylski stands for Brylski 06 I wish I could drop - it was randomly assigned to my yahoo username a long time ago, and for consistency I've always kept it in most of my usernames. But it has zero meaning to me.

K rate is important to look at when noticing changes in BAA. If the K rate is the same but the BAA changed, its probably just a sample/luck type thing and you can expect the pitcher to return to form.

Using 100% and 0% in their "percentages" game completely defeats the purpose of the game.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html?eref=onion "An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide." Wow, what an odd story. We didn't know about two-thirds of the gorilla population?

I think he sticks at third. It's where the organization needs him. I'm more concerned with his batting average "falling of a cliff" since Laporta has been gone. He went from a mid-380s to mid-340s overnight it seems. I think that has less to do with lineup protection than his ~.400 BABIP (IIRC) he was sporting through the first half. (Though BABIP's are higher in the minors, his was still very high.)

I'm a bit confused. We all seem to agree that Hardy plays plus defense at SS. Yet most in this thread argue that he doesn't have the range to play 2B. I don't see anybody attacking JJ's arm strength, so one figures that the only advantage he might have on JJ is range. It also seems (from this thread) that the argument is that one needs more range to play 2B than SS (especially given having a liability with Prince at 1B). Summarizing all that informatioin, it would only seem logical to move Escobar to 2B. Both arguments are flawed. If JJ can play around average defense at SS, he can handle 2B fine. Escobar's greatest asset is his defense, it would be counterproductive to move him. Not to mention if Hardy's bat doesn't play as well elsewhere, Escobar's likely would do even worse with a position change. Hardy is moving to 3B, 2B or another organization by 2010. There is little doubt about that, IMO. The argument for 3B over 2B is his defensive abilities might translate into improved defense at 3B rather than the same at 2B. Argument against 3B is that his bat goes from good/great to average for his position. We'll have to see how Gamel turns out, but I'm guessing 3B is the least likely of the three options, and another organization is the most likely. In looking at offensive numbers, i take issue with the fact that several people seem to think Hardy's #s will decline, and Weeks numbers are going to magically improve. The whole "Weeks has been unlucky" argument doesn't hold any water with me. People aren't necessarily using past results or cherry picking periods of success to project these guys future performance. Its definitely part of the equation, but going deeper into the secondary stats (like BABIP and LD%, often cited here) can tell how sustainable a players performance, or lack of it, could be.

He had amazing college numbers but nothing special in the minor leagues. He didn't spend a lot of time down there, but he had an okay season at AA as a 21 year old, then was killing AAA pitching to the tune of a 1.090 OPS at age 22 for a half season before his call up. He had an .807 OPS with a .374 OBP in the major leagues last season. I think he can hit wood bats fine.

1. Its Francisco Liriano. 2. Knee and elbow are very different injuries.

Its not Escobar v. Hardy though. It's Hardy v. whatever we get for trading Hardy + Escobar. If we can get Matt Cain for a package centered around Hardy, wouldn't you do that and take your chances on Hardy? Does the difference between Cain and Bush offset the difference between Hardy and Escobar, which is possible there may be little or none?

Thanks for your input guys.