Oh the geekness of it all.
Not only will video game fanboys consider themselves pseudo jocks, they might actually hurt themselves in the process.
This is some douche trying to hit a baseball with a virtual bat controlled by the wii-mote, the nun-chuck-type remote for the new Nintendo console, the Wii, set to be released in two weeks.
WTF Dude, you twists the wrists!
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January 7, 2010 - 8:06 am
I can’t say I’m surprised, considering it’s the BWAA, but still, when it came down to it, I was actually pretty sure that Roberto Alomar was going to get into the Hall on his first ballot, if only because he obviously deserves to be in and because the ballot was so thin this year, at [...]
January 5, 2010 - 10:35 am
Recently, as I was writing my post on why Barry Larkin deserves to be a first-ballot hall-of-famer, I got to wondering who the top 10 shortstops of all time are. In order to get an answer, I decided to crowdsource my question to the internet!
What I did was I went to Google and looked up [...]
January 4, 2010 - 1:25 pm
This year UmpBump continues its annual tradition of honoring the greats by casting our vote for who we think deserves to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. As always, we vote not just on players currently eligible for Hall of Fame voting under baseball’s arcane eligibility rules, but for any and all [...]
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To my mind Barry Larkin is a stone cold lock for the Hall of Fame, even though there are probably enough people with short memories or who are just not paying attention among the BWAA to insure that he doesn’t get in this year.
Larkin had the complete package. An outstanding hitter with an .815 career [...]
November 7th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Sarah, you are right: Jeter is (statistically) a very average shortstop (good percentage, limited range, few double plays). But Alex Gonzalez doesn’t get consideration this season b/c he missed 1/3 of the games. Sorry, but that’s just how it works. Uribe or Young (especially Young) would have been fine gold glove candidates.
I know it undercuts my criticism of Massaroti’s lack of facts, but I’ll say it anyway: I can’t help feeling that if we were watching Jeter play 50 years ago, before the game became so stat obsessed, we would vote for him for gold glove everytime. Because, while his “range factor” isn’t that great, watching him play is a treat. He plays hard. Voting for Jeter for gold glove is just a way to say, “this is how defense was meant to be played.” I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. No doubt Boston fans do, but what else is new?
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November 7th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Oh yeah, and Orlando Cabrera is on the Angels, not the Dodgers.
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November 7th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Yeah, that whole Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim thing really threw me. I see LA, I think Dodgers. Goddamn marketing schemes!
The fact of the matter is that the Gold Glove is a defensive award. It is designed to highlight a part of the game that gets overlooked all too often. It should not be given out like a bonus prize to the game’s superstars.
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November 8th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Frankly, Coley, I have to side with Sarah on this one, and I’m not from Boston. I don’t see what your argument about 50 years ago has to do with anything. The fact is, we have these stats nowadays, and we should use them. And when every kind of defensive stat you can come up with, both traditional and non-traditional, shows Jeter to be average or below average, it’s ridiculous to give him the gold glove, or to defend giving it to him. I mean, most of the baseball world agrees that he’s not even the best defensive shortstop on his own team. You have a point when you ridicule Sox fans for saying Gonzalez should have gotten it, but I can’t figure out why you persist in going all the way over to the other extreme to say that Jeter actually deserves his ill-gotten GG.
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November 8th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
[...] Jeter doesn’t deserve the Gold Glove true- great player. Clutch like no other but he’s nothing special with the glove. Solid but not extraordinary. I don’t the Boston BS that Alex Gonzalez and his 113 games played deserves. As much as anyone would not want to admit it, the Gold Glove is hea (tags: baseball derekjeter yankees goldglove mlb) Tags: [...]
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