ESPN "analysts": room temp IQs all around?

Wow, I didn't realize Steve Phillips was a midget!

Is this the first year that ESPN has put OPS on a hitter's standard stat line when they're at bat?

those were Espn dudes covering the Indy 500, right? so bad I had to turn the volume off.

yeah, though i wish they'd just show the 2 components separately since there's a pretty big difference between a .270/.320/.530 hitter and a .270/.400/.450 hitter

They probably don't want to overwhelm John Q. Fungo with two new numbers at once. (I know, the logic crumbles immediately, I just figure that's the suits' reasoning.)

oh, Orel Hershiser listing "clean players" like he knows who they are.

Memorial Day always good for carrying the jingoistic flag on bloody sportscasts. Good job, Phillips.

would you shut the fuck up plz

EASY GARDY

steve phillips is such a fucking retard

Expecting some expert two-out walk nonsense from Phillips after the break.

could you be more specific, WmC, are you defending the Clean List or God Bless American Hegemony?

I'm not defending either one. I'm just sick of your constant willingness -- your eagerness -- to define yourself by misery and hatred.

chill out, pal, it's an ESPN Hate thread.

And the NYY thread is the Yankees Hate Thread, and the Mets thread is the Mets Haters Hate Thread, and the politics threads are all Everybody and Everything Hate Threads, and film threads are all Mere Entertainment Hate Threads.

et fucking cetera, ad fucking nauseam

c'mon, ppl blow off steam. There are positive things on all those.

Speaking as a neutral non-American who never really understood the whole Memorial Day Weekend thing, at least the jingoistic stuff (and Morbs' reaction to that specific thing) is over and done with as soon as the day finishes, whereas dudes like Hershiser will be spouting blahblahblah over mythical "clean lists" every day from now until we die.

I fucking hate Rick Reilly so goddamned much.

Latest gimmick, in tonight's game -- Schulman in the booth, Phillips sitting down at field level next to the Dodgers dugout, Hershiser sitting down by the Cards dugout. WTF?

hahahaha i know, it's really random. but whatever, they can't be any worse down there.

how tall is tim kurkjian

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4267267280_616fa92900_m.jpg

yes that is "tim kurkjian height"

tim kurkjian heineken

see? i didn't want anyone to think it was that

The Giants are new analyst Morgan Ensberg's choice for fifth-best team in MLB. The Mark DeRosa acquisition was huge. His choices for third/fourth/fifth-best starting rotation were, IIRC, Phillies, Rays, Rangers.

Ravech questioned the Giants' lack of power beyond Sandoval. Ensberg's reply was something like "Yes, DeRosa makes every team better."

lol wait morgan fuckin' ensberg is on espn now??

He could be worse than Tino Martinez.

i gotta say, if you get a guy who has JUST left the game, you better make sure he's like rodney harrison and does not give a fuck.

the only ex-baseball player I've seen willing to trash guys is Mitch Williams

yeah i've only seen a bit of him but he's enjoyable.

I wonder how this shows ratings have been affected by the diehard mlb fans tuning into mlb network.

how soon before someone tries doing a show w/out ex-jocks?

What, like PTL/Around the Horn?

hahah probably not that soon.

i actually like a lot of ex-player analysts, i think they bring some great perspective. but unfortunately none of the ones i like analyze baseball.

no WmC, I meant no jocks OR shouty circus clowns.

how many shows did Nate Silver do last year?

well, say what you mean, Herr Doktor (xp)

Kurk-gem:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/images/02/11/kurkjian-ripken.jpg

"We interrupt the stretch run of this fascinating baseball season with something completely irrelevant, epically ridiculous and wildly unimportant. A most absurd streak quietly ended in 2010: For the first time since 1989, I no longer clip every box score of every baseball game from the nearest newspaper and tape each one into a spiral notebook, a daily task that I've estimated, at roughly 15 minutes per day, has cost me 40 days of my truly pathetic life."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=kurkjian_tim&id=5420098

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2010/0805/mlb_e_kurkjian11_600.jpg

:-(

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

If you got a system that helps you make a living, it doesn't matter how much it makes you look like a beaten-for-lunch-money-by-Liberace victim

schilling also had a good segment about strasburg on baseball tonight last night

HEY NOMAH -- "experience" don't mean shit in the postseason

HEY KRUK, IS EVERYONE A "CLUTCH HITTER"?

i know i'm not supposed to get angered by these guys but jp riccardi saying that cc is the al cy young because he plays in a tougher division w/ tougher line ups w/ the way that felix has pitched against nyy actually makes me want to cancel my cable

was hilar to hear Nomar try to say "sabermetric"

"Cybermuh-dih-duh-duh"

CHRIS SINGLETON STOP YELLING AT US