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philpritchard wrote:

Lament wrote:

philpritchard wrote:That slide was kind of a dick move, but Rasmus seems like one of the least dickish players around.

Wait, really? I thought Rasmus had a long-established reputation as a dick. Didn't his dad come out and complain about a bunch of shit a few years ago? Maybe I'm wrong, but I remember when I first heard about this story my initial reaction was "Well Rasmus is a piece of shit, so I'm sure whatever he did was fucking stupid." Maybe I'm thinking about someone else though.

His dad did come out and complain about a bunch of shit. But I don't see how that makes Rasmus a dick; it makes his dad a dick, but Rasmus himself never really got involved in that.

Plus, the reputation he developed in St. Louis was based on things Tony Larussa said while trying to run him out of town. And Larussa has a history of that kind of thing. Larussa always talked about how Rasmus would only take advice from his dad and refused to listen to coaches, but we've pretty much seen the exact opposite in Toronto.

@SkitchP wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

Lament wrote:

philpritchard wrote:That slide was kind of a dick move, but Rasmus seems like one of the least dickish players around.

Wait, really? I thought Rasmus had a long-established reputation as a dick. Didn't his dad come out and complain about a bunch of shit a few years ago? Maybe I'm wrong, but I remember when I first heard about this story my initial reaction was "Well Rasmus is a piece of shit, so I'm sure whatever he did was fucking stupid." Maybe I'm thinking about someone else though.

His dad did come out and complain about a bunch of shit. But I don't see how that makes Rasmus a dick; it makes his dad a dick, but Rasmus himself never really got involved in that.

Plus, the reputation he developed in St. Louis was based on things Tony Larussa said while trying to run him out of town. And Larussa has a history of that kind of thing. Larussa always talked about how Rasmus would only take advice from his dad and refused to listen to coaches, but we've pretty much seen the exact opposite in Toronto.

So what you're saying is Rasmus isn't a dick

except for that one time, then that other thing, and that other thing

numbers wrote:I dunno, I've found LaRussa's criticisms of guys that the Red Sox ended up getting to be spot on.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

numbers wrote:I dunno, I've found LaRussa's criticisms of guys that the Red Sox ended up getting to be spot on.

Yeah, like Orlando Cabrera is a borderline pedophile.

numbers wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

numbers wrote:I dunno, I've found LaRussa's criticisms of guys that the Red Sox ended up getting to be spot on.

Yeah, like Orlando Cabrera is a borderline pedophile.

I was thinking of Renteria and JD Drew.

numbers wrote:Yeah, I remember him saying that Renteria would not do good in this market, and it was pretty accurate. He seemed overwhelmed by everything, and went back to being himself when he left for the most part. With Drew he basically said that Drew had decided to settle for 3 quarters of his talent being enough to get by. That wasnt a revelation when he said it, but it was still true.

CopperTom wrote:Has anyone ever gone to HoF induction ceremony? I'm thinking about doing it.

CopperTom wrote:Has anyone ever gone to HoF induction ceremony? I'm thinking about doing it.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Yankee stadium pisses me off to no end, even when the Jays aren't losing games on what should be routine fly balls to right. There should at least be some kind of minimum dimensions for new fields. I started playing in a field with a deeper right field when I was 14.

"He jammed him and this one's blooped into shallow right. Could be trouble and it looks like it might fall in over the first baseman... and this one is gone for a three run bomb!"