KLaw Highlights 5 September Call-ups Worth Watching

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Law continues to propagate the myth that you can’t play left if you have no power. I mean, when you say his bat won’t play in left, the unspoken consequence is that if Brantley played CF and Sizemore played LF, everything would be just peachy, even though Sizemore is apparently the superior defensive player. It’s precisely the kind of thinking that led to the Indians playing their best SS at 2B for almost two years.

The once and future

by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Sep 2, 2009 1:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

playing in an outfield corner might be a stretch, although I think he’ll hit for enough average to make it work.

This is what he actually wrote. I think the Indians showed in their use of Gutierrez that they were willing to make that tradeoff to some extent.

I think the sabermetricians are slowly starting to figure out what perhaps should have been intuitively obvious years ago, i.e., that there are substantial run-saving benefits to having a very rangy left fielder. Might have something to do with how that 2005 club won 93 games.

by Jay on Sep 2, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You need defensively competent skill position players.
You can theoretically “hide” subpar glove/superior bat at non-skill positions.
If you have a superior glove/bat combo at a skill position, you can possibly afford to have a subpar bat at a non-skill position.
If you have a superior glove/bat combo at a skill position, that does not mean that you get a pass for not developing superior bats in non skill positions. I think that this has historically been an FO copout.

by stuart dean on Sep 2, 2009 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If you have a superior glove/bat combo at a skill position, you can possibly afford to have a subpar bat at a non-skill position.

I don’t buy this. You can’t buy incompetence at one position with extra-competence at another. This like “balancing” your fried chicken with a Diet Coke. You go for the best possible production in every element at every position.

I don’t think the FO has asked for a free pass on the corner bats, so I can’t call it a copout. I think they have valued up-the-middle players in drafts and trades, and that has paid off in some respects and cost us in others.

by Jay on Sep 2, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wholeheartedly agree that “they have valued up-the-middle players”. Am I wrong in also thinking that there has been a little bit of an attitude that “it’s okay that we can carry Ben Fran in left because we have Grady in center”? If I have heard it, perhaps it wasn’t from the FO but from the beat hacks?

by stuart dean on Sep 2, 2009 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This like "balancing" your fried chicken with a Diet Coke

In a great, but completely unrelated anecdote…I was recently at a AAA game with a friend and my friend ordered some chili cheese fries and a Mountain Dew from one of the concession stands. When the guy behind the counter brought out the thoroughly wonderful and disgusting looking chili cheese fries my friend said, “oh yeah…that’s America”. To which the guy behind the counter, in a true moment of behind-the-counter-guy brilliance, replied, “no, it’d be American if you had ordered a diet Mountain Dew with that.”

by APV on Sep 2, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Haha, so true.

by Roger Dorn on Sep 2, 2009 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A friend of mine recently ordered a veggie burger with cheese and bacon. There was nothing for me to could say…

by stuart dean on Sep 3, 2009 9:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I do stuff like that. Veggie stromboli, with steak.

by Jay on Sep 3, 2009 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Do you feel like you’re doing a healthy thing?
I drove to the gym recently only to find it closed. Having made the effort to go, I felt equally as good about myself as if I had actually worked out…

by stuart dean on Sep 3, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I feel like I’m eating something good. I’m ordering the veggies because I like them, and because it’s a good idea for me to eat a certain amount of them.

by Jay on Sep 3, 2009 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seems to me actual veggies are different from a vegetarian meat-substitute, in that everyone should eat veggies. Of course the good veggie burgers don’t try to approximate meat — they just taste like veggie/bean/mushroom/etc.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not sure why you brought up meat substitutes, but okay.

by Jay on Sep 3, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

many veggie burgers are

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m saying that ordering a veggie burger with bacon is kind of odd if it’s the meat substitute kind, but getting a stromboli with veggies is just tasty.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bacon is like a vegetable to me…

by stuart dean on Sep 3, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This! :)

by MooneysRebellion on Sep 3, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

the hunt for the elusive wild bacon forest continues…

by APV on Sep 4, 2009 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Oh, okay, okay, that went right over my head.

Agreed, it is kind of weird to order a veggie burger and then put bacon on it. But who knows, maybe he just likes the taste.

by Jay on Sep 3, 2009 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, could be. And again, there are plenty of varieties of veggie burger, many of which are not simply attempts to approximate a hamburger without meat.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Guys, can’t we take this discussion to a foodie blog where it belongs?

(Ducks.)

"You just gotta roll with the ounches." - Clemson58YearOldMan

by emd2k3 on Sep 3, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But there is no SBN foodie blog.

And you still haven’t explained why you have a problem with my avatar.

by Jay on Sep 3, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Actually, a ballpark/stadium food blog might be a lot of fun to read.

I want it. I've been grinding it out for awhile.

by woodsmeister on Sep 3, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think you have me confused with someone else. I like your avatar.

"You just gotta roll with the ounches." - Clemson58YearOldMan

by emd2k3 on Sep 4, 2009 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My bad. I got indecipherable usernames confused.

by Jay on Sep 4, 2009 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I started a new Yahoo mail account in 2003. My real name is very generic (especially for the internet). My initials are EMD. It’s just easier to use the same thing on every site than to have to conjure up new ones daily.

"You just gotta roll with the ounches." - Clemson58YearOldMan

by emd2k3 on Sep 9, 2009 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, that’s gtesomethingsomethingn

by NickFantana on Sep 4, 2009 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Those burgers made mostly out of black beans are delicious. I have no idea what else is in them.

In this instance I don’t think there’s any harm in getting one and putting bacon on it if you’re just getting it to eat something healthier than red meat.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Sep 3, 2009 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sure.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I actually enjoy veggie burgers made to taste like meat.

by Voltaire on Sep 3, 2009 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But you’re not a vegetarian?

I don’t mind them either, but I am a (quasi-)vegetarian. I prefer the ones that don’t (e.g. black bean burgers, mushroom burgers, etc.)

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No, I am not at all.

by Voltaire on Sep 3, 2009 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sometimes I think your main role here is to make Logo look more normal.

by Jay on Sep 3, 2009 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not an easy task.

Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?

by ClemsonGirl on Sep 3, 2009 8:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m gonna go with you don’t mean, “because his normal-lookingness is pretty much maxed out already”…

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I take pride in my insanity.

by Voltaire on Sep 3, 2009 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought that was JRon’s job….

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No JRon is like your other half, the crazy stuff you don’t do he does. Between the two of you LGT has crazy covered.

Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?

by ClemsonGirl on Sep 3, 2009 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’ve started watching Boy Meets World on YouTube, by the way.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 3, 2009 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good choices.

Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?

by ClemsonGirl on Sep 4, 2009 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It’s really a pretty bad show, but the nostalgia is fun.

They are exactly my age.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 4, 2009 12:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and, I do believe, you are one year younger than Morgan….?

by Logodaedalus on Sep 4, 2009 2:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t know how old Morgan is, I watched when it was being rerun on ABC Family and Disney Channel, I was pretty young when it first came out. It is not a bad show. It is the best show ever.

Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?

by ClemsonGirl on Sep 4, 2009 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Cory was the high school class of 2000 (same as me). When the show started, he was in sixth grade, age 11. Morgan was 5, which I guess makes her high school class of 2007, and so she’d be a senior in college now.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 4, 2009 12:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

She would be a Junior. A year older than me.

Who needs affection when you can have blind hatred?

by ClemsonGirl on Sep 4, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think actually it’d be class of 2006. I changed half of it, and forot to change the other half.

Anyway.

by Logodaedalus on Sep 4, 2009 8:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

As a Type II diabetic, I guess I resemble that stereotype somewhat. It’s good to know I’m an American.

I want it. I've been grinding it out for awhile.

by woodsmeister on Sep 3, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Where at least I know I’m free.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Sep 3, 2009 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ack.

I want it. I've been grinding it out for awhile.

by woodsmeister on Sep 4, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

for the man to poop on….

what?

by Logodaedalus on Sep 4, 2009 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

sorry, “The Man”

by Logodaedalus on Sep 4, 2009 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think this metaphor is somewhat off. Having a subpar bat at a nonskill position is not like balancing fried chicken with diet soda (which typically tastes better than regular soda). It is like saying, well, I’m having fried chicken, so I might as well have a supersized Jolt Cola with a couple of teaspoons of extra sugar stirred in.

by odradek on Sep 3, 2009 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs