Comments on: Are We Further Out of Touch Than I Thought?

By: Saying Goodbye to Mannywood « Mike Scioscia's tragic illness

Saying Goodbye to Mannywood « Mike Scioscia's tragic illness — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:35:24 +0000

[...] be pretty damned good if it gets you a .917 OPS. It’s that kind of media fail which lead to posts like this, wondering why so many fans preferred Pierre to Manny despite overwhelming evidence that he’s [...]

By: We Have So Much Further To Go « Mike Scioscia's tragic illness

We Have So Much Further To Go « Mike Scioscia's tragic illness — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:06:32 +0000

[...] So Much Further To Go June 9, 2010 at 1:06 pm | Posted in Steven Strasburg | Leave a Comment A few months back, I wrote an article asking if the more hardcore fans, those who read & write blogs and are [...]

By: KempKershaw

KempKershaw — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:43:43 +0000

Let’s just face the fact that most Dodgers fans are idiots.

Great post Mike.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:21:06 +0000

In some ways I am seeing it as a mistake to trade Pierre, only because he really was a valuable bench player to have compared to what we could sign, and the money was a sunk cost.

By: Mike Sharperson Lives!

Mike Sharperson Lives! — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:21:31 +0000

It just goes to show; there are two kinds of people in the world- those who like Joe Morgan, and those who liked FJM, may its memory be a blessing.

By: dingers

dingers — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:52:00 +0000

@nolanryanbeatdown http://mikesciosciastragicillness.com/2010/02/24/are-we-further-out-of-touch-than-i-thought/#comment-8657

nah, the Dodgers need to make moves based on how they feel, that’s the only effective way to win. Remember how the Red Sox loved Nomar and then suddenly hated him and traded him at the 2004 deadline and won the World Series? That’s a direct 1:1 correlation.

By: grabarkewitz

grabarkewitz — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:58:17 +0000

These are the same fans who Frank McCourt loves. They are hopelessly clueless and believe the pap that Bill Plaschke puts in his morning bird cage liner. The disconnect between those who get it and those who wouldn’t know OPS from POS is getting larger by the day. The scary thing is that when you try to explain things like OPS or VORP, you can actually hear the gears jamming in their heads.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:04:53 +0000

On a related note, I love how people will say that a “stolen base equals a double” without recognizing that a stolen base doesn’t help to say, score the runner from 3rd base and that a caught stealing equals an out and squanders a scoring opportunity by erasing the erstwhile baserunner. But I guess people love them some Juan Pierre, no matter what the rest of us have to say about him.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:01:22 +0000

I love the completely biased and unsubstantiated opinions like the facebook commenter who said that Juan Pierre had “one of the best records for stolen bases”….umm…did he mean for amount of times caught stealing? :P

By: bluetrain

bluetrain — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:19:43 +0000

I always thot is was misery that loved company, from those facebook quotes i can now add ignorance or maybe its just that in this particular race, ignorance has left misery in the dust.