Friday, January 23, 2009

The more things change, the more they are Dusty

Manager Dusty Baker confirmed Thursday that Willy Taveras will be the Reds' leadoff hitter.
Naturally, Baker focuses on Taveras' speed rather than his .331 career on-base percentage. "His role is he's our center fielder and our leadoff man," Baker said. "The fact that he's so young, he's going to get better. A lot of people talk about his on-base percentage. I like to think in terms of him getting into scoring position." If you're curious, the "so young" Taveras turned 27 last month.

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4 comments:

k-mad said...

Shouldn't Smiff be networking? Instead of using ALA's Internet Cafe to WHINE about Dusty Baker?

Sarge said...

No...whining about Dusty baker is always right. And what's he got to network - he lives in SAN DIEGO! And he gets more money than the economist on this site and me COMBINED. He's like "the librarian on his perch" - all he has to worry about is his team repeating the World Series.

Complain away SMIFF!!!!

Sarge said...

I was going to say, before the Smiff tangent, that being on First base when Jay Bruce bats IS scoring position. Or Brandon Phillips (or Adam Dunn for that matter - but his crap .370 oba and .5+ slugging was really stinky because he strikes out too much) or even Joey Votto - but you know - clogging up the basepaths causes fewer runs to be scored other than anything except striking out.

Smiff said...

Yeah, K-Mad, that's how committed am i to continuing to expose Dusty as a goddamned moron. What's your excuse, since you BLEW OFF this networking affair?

And as you know, i do not go to ALA to network, just drink.