ERIC BYRNES WTF

i don't know what is happening but i looooooooooove eric byrnes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heis cool

http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2006/10/byrnesyarhair.jpg

Ha - Deadspin totally stole that from CSTB.

i preferred to leitch deadspin's bandwidth...

^^^ ftw

He don't smoke no bammer weed.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/060612_Issue/060603_PaulWesterberg_wide.hlarge.jpg

does paulie have a boner?

Odds of an RBL Posse reference occuring in this thread prior to one being made: 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

Byrnes just hit an infield double.

pimpin

Youtube?

Hard-hit grounder ricocheted off Felipe Lopez. No loafing Nats, Byrnes legged it out with a graceless head-first slide.

WTF is Chris Young of the sub-.300 OBP and 22 homers doing batting 1st for this damn team. No wonder they have a negative run differential.

yet also somehow the best record in the NL

BP has an article devoted to the "somehow" today.

To have the records in close games that the Diamondbacks have, they have to have been lucky. From year to year, the biggest factor in close games is luck, and while we can tease out the influence of bullpens or notably good or bad performance in clutch situations on the margins, there’s no question that the Diamondbacks are a bit lucky to have such a good record, not to mention a three-game lead in the NL West.

How lucky? The Diamondbacks are in line to be have the best record ever by a team that was outscored during the season.

Valverde does lead MLB in saves tho...

when both byrnes and tejada forgot abt home plate in the same series i remember thinking to myself: ooooh so thats how they do it, they get really dumb guys.

^^^subtext of Moneyball (cf: Beane vs. Dykstra)

hahaha, apparently there isn't an 07 Diamondbacks thread. Might as well use this thread for a WTF for Micah Owings -- 4 for 4 with 6 RBI. Oh yeah, and he's the AZ starting pitcher.

He could hit SEVENTH for LolRussa.

dontrelle has hit 7th in recent years.

Every one of those hits Owings got was impressive, the two home runs were both over 400 feet.

I remember former Padre and good hitting pitcher Tim Lollar hitting two home runs in a game and I think Livan Hernandez did this a couple of years ago.

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2007/baseball/mlb/09/11/byrnes0917/p1_byrnes1.jpg

From SI's feature on Byrnsie:

Asked to name something people don't know about Byrnes, Arizona second baseman Orlando Hudson thinks for a minute, then exclaims, "I know! The man don't own no underwear!" This is true. Byrnes rolls commando-style away from the park and plays in only sliding shorts (no cup). "I ran out of underwear in college and never bought any more," he explains. "I don't like to be restricted."

a man needs limits.

advantage: byrnes

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and plays in only sliding shorts (no cup).

This is tremendously unwise.

He's an OF... the odds of a cupcheck are slim

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I realize that, Jimmy, thanks -- errant balls during warm-ups, BP, and such are still a possibility.

Tony Gwynn got nadded once in the batter's box on a foul ball.

The words "intrascrotal hematoma" (and Barrett's post-hematoma numbers) should be enough of an argument.

Lest we forget:

The Nutty Buddy

This guy is such a buzzkill on MLB Network