Player rankings - a statistical analysis

[BeeJay]

I don't feel like digging up quotes, but Baker's said some very racially charged stuff in the past few years, going back to when he was Bond's monkey boy.  Also, Jim Edmonds got intentionally beaned by Zambrano twice in the same game.  I think the Cards got beaned by the Cubs last year as many times as they did by the rest of the league.  Ever since Baker got to Chicago, it's turned from a friendly rivalry to very bitter one.

[fknmclane]

My brother, Beej's old roomie, also thinks Dusty is a racist.

[Ryno23]

Baker said Blacks and Hispanics are better suited for Wrigley's day baseball. 

Is it racist?  Probably not.

He had 3 players that could spell Derek Lee at first, but the dumb shit wore him out the last 2 and a half months of the season only to have DLee suck ass in the end (not lee's fault).

Baker allows SP's to throw 120+ pitches in 10-0 blow outs.

One more than one occasion in 2003 he allowed Lenny fucking Harris to bat leadoff.

In 2004 he allowd Jose Fucking macias to hit leadoff.

He pays no attention to stats.

He thinks alou was a great guy because he "does all 10 of his push ups."

His in game strategy is similar to the way Herman Edwards manages the clock in the NFL (aka:  he has no fucking clue)

My son (19 months old) could have managed the past 2 cub teams to winning records. 

Mark My Words:  The Cubs WILL NOT win a WS until shithead baker is gone.

Hopefully he'll buckle under the pressue after this year and get out of his contract.

In 03 when the fans wore the "In Dusty we Trusty" tee shirts, I wanted to throw up.

[Bonny]

His 3 year old almost got killed in the WS

[JoeDirt]

Ever since Baker got to Chicago, it's turned from a friendly rivalry to very bitter one.

I'm not defending Dusty, but aren't very bitter rivalries by far the best kind?

I personally think Dusty is very poor at knowing when to pull the starting pitcher--but you have to give him credit--he's usually on a winning team...and when you look at the rosters he had in SF, there just wasn't a whole lot to work with there.

[BeeJay]

I'm not defending Dusty, but aren't very bitter rivalries by far the best kind?

No, they're not.  I don't want the Saux/Yankees rivalry in St. Louis, it was much better before it turned bitter.  I used to pull for the Cubs when they weren't playing the Cards.  If the Cards weren't going to win the division, I would have liked to see the Cubs in first.  Now, I want the Cubs to finish in dead last with plague-infected rats running across Wrigley biting the players.  And don't even get me started on their fans.  Counting Ryno, I think I've talked to about 5 Cubs fans that had any clue what they were talking about.  Most Chicago sports fans can do 2 things: talk about how "next year" the cubs are going to win, and yap about the '85 Bears.  Fuck Dusty Baker.

[ultimate7]

Larussa started it by throwing at Sosa, and talking shit about Sosa.

I hate Jose Macias, he better not make the roster this year.

[fightonusc]

So, umm...what do you guys think about my player rankings?

To continue with where this thread was going, as a Giants fan, I could have warned any Cubs fans out there everything above that has been said about The Lizard King. Barry Bonds makes a lot of managers look pretty good, doesn't he?

[BeeJay]

I like the player rankings.  I think the only way to make them better would be very complicated and has to do with speed.  When I'm looking at speed, I really only care about the very fast and very slow guys.  Everyone else is pretty much is pretty much on the same level.  So, if I were to rank them, I'd somehow throw the speed factor out for these guys, and rank them solely on their power and contact ratings.  But, I'm not sure if this would even change the rankings you have, and it is needlessly complicated, so fk it.