Bryce Harper, catcher and Scott Boras advisee

yeah...

"I want to discount all the 'Harper's doing it at 19, Trout is 20!' but I guess maybe that year does make a legit difference when you look at others' performance at 19 vs 20 (like A-Rod)."

Okay maybe you can discount the age thing, but you can't entirely discount the fact that last year Trout was 19 and completely struggling at the MLB level in ~130 plate appearances. A guy coming in at 19 years old and completely dominating in his first contact with MLB pitching is basically once a generation talent+.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/15/bryce-harper-conservative-hero/

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since that has literally nothing to do with baseball (even if it was written by Joe Judge's grandson), can you put crap like it in one of the hundred or so "conservative zoo animal" threads in the future?

it's really funny, how you just c/p some phrases over and over

plz, I replaced cable with mlb.tv in an election year for a reason.

oh man, burned by frogbs

what else could go wrong

since that has literally nothing to do with baseball

actually, it concerns professional baseball player Bryce Harper, surprised you missed that part

watching Bryce Harper play is like listening to Dr Morbius complain

in other Bryce Harper news I am v happy to have scored tickets to tonight's game, going with my dad as an early father's day present!

5ks

no poly, some asshole just decided to use Bryce Harper as a Trojan Horse for some Klanspew.

Whereas Luke Scott just does it all on his own.

yesss

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/harry-reid-uses-thats-a-clown-question-bro/2012/06/19/gJQAdEeSoV_blog.html

i have been waiting for a bro to ask me a clown question but it hasn't happened yet!! :(

How to Get Him Out Every Time

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17384

@AdamKilgoreWP
TV guy: "What's on your iPod?" Harper: "What do you like to listen to?" TV guy: "I like Vampire Weekend." Harper: "That's weird." Gold.

all-star quote machine

Gotta say, I'm starting to think this isn't the worst guy in baseball.

Yeah, I like him.

I still hate him

Harper just, uh, clowned Kevin Millar. On Millar's highlights: "That's TERRIBLE. Is he like 46?"

http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1118339/HARPER-POPUP.gif

how can you hate this kid

bryce harper looks like me playing softball

Bryce Harper took a moment during the all-star festivities to make fun of Kevin Millar’s hair during a segment with MLB.com.

“Especially Millar with those highlights,” Harper joked about Millar’s blonde tips. “That’s terrible. Isn’t he, like, 46?”

Yes, I know Harper is the same guy who rocked a mullet and ended up on a “hair don’t” list. But if you’re 19 and named Bryce Harper, unwritten hair rules don’t apply to you.

Harper also managed to get a shot in at Sean Casey at the end of the interview.

“Sean Casey needs to get on some P90X instead of P45.”

Boom, roasted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/post/bryce-harper-makes-fun-of-kevin-millars-hair/2012/07/12/gJQApUFQfW_blog.html

Stay tuned after the game to find out why Ozzie Guillen thinks Bryce is a "fucking piece of shit."

game recognize game

This kid is pissing off all the right ppl

what it was, was pine tar

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/post/ozzie-guillen-calls-bryce-harper-unprofessional-after-pine-tar-spat/2012/07/15/gJQAFKT2mW_blog.html

Nice gif of Ozz here

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/7/16/3162632/bryce-harper-ozzie-guillen-pine-tar-argument

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1239987/ozzie-lol-wat.gif

someone translate

"he went like this," he said, gurning, "something something..."

Fouled a ball hard off his own left ankle trying to bunt, came out of the game at the start of the 3rd.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1269418/rollins.gif

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/8/9/3230460/bryce-harper-washington-nationals-angel-hernandez-is-seriously-the-worst

.248/.324/.401

ROY

i figured he'd have to cool down at some point this year though, god-like talent or not. he's going to be great someday, though, and soon.

^novel analysis

Has a 19-year-old ever scored 100 runs? Harper scored one tonight, so he'd need six more in the Nationals' six remaining games. (Ott, Mantle, and Griffey didn't.)

Buddy Lewis had 100 runs for the Senators in 1936, turning 20 in August of that year. Harper may or may not get to 100 runs but he's on pace for 114 runs if he'd played the full season instead of starting in late April.

I vaguely recognize the name...Best thing in the world for Harper this year has been Trout. When Harper was slumping during the summer, all the media focus had shifted to Trout. Between Washington's surprise season and the messy Strasburg situation, I'm sure a spotlight would have normally been squarely on Harper in the middle of all that; as is, his own troubles got barely any attention that I noticed. (Maybe a different story locally.) So he played through that, and now he's having his best month yet.

Thought there'd be mention of Fred Lynn somewhere in this, but no:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20130521/bryce-harper/?sct=hp_t13_a6&eref=sihp

supposedly bryce harper bunted twice yesterday. TWICE.

Soriano has talked to BH since, but...

"It may not have been a catch-able ball, but if we're positioned the right way, there might have been a different outcome. With two outs, I could tell my four-year-old son, 'You know where you need to play,' and he would go to the right spot to make the play. It's not an excuse, and I'm not speaking badly about anybody, but I think that's how you play the game.''

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2013/5/22/4355532/rafael-soriano-bryce-harper-nationals-giants-walk-off

bursitis

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9315401/bryce-harper-washington-nationals-not-lineup-due-sore-knee

my bf just sent me a text reading "spending the day trolling bryce harper"

v proud of him atm