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Fire Steve Phillips

AG/DC Jun 24 2008 01:01 PM

Not really, but here's some Steve Phillips action at firejoemorgan.com I caught this gem on 710 ESPN Radio this afternoon. Steve Phillips was talking about J.D. Drew's mindset at the plate. This may come as a giant surprise, but it was basically nonsense. Paraphrasing, he was saying that hitters should be more aggressive with runners in scoring position. He called J. D. Drew "selfish" for taking walks with runners on. He added: "Sometimes [Drew] and guys like Adam Dunn start their at bats [with runners in scoring postion] thinking to themselves 'Am I going to swing or take if the count gets to 3-2.'" How this guy can know what J. D. and Adam are thinking at those exact moments is beyond me. Last time I checked, Swing or Take: A Collective Journal Of What We Were Thinking At The Beginning of ABs with RISP by J. D. Drew, Adam Dunn and Guys Like That isn't supposed to come out until August 21. Maybe he got an advance copy or something? Weird.

metirish Jun 24 2008 01:04 PM

Pity Steve was on the radio with that great insight , if he were on the telly he would no doubt have used the indoor home plate that Baseball Tonight uses to illustrate his point ( and that KC likes)

Nymr83 Jun 24 2008 01:05 PM

firejoemorgan is a great website that does a great job calling out dumb commentators like joe and lazy columnists everywhere.

OlerudOwned Jun 24 2008 01:19 PM

Willets Point Jun 24 2008 01:55 PM

I'm looking forward to reading Swing or Take: A Collective Journal Of What We Were Thinking At The Beginning of ABs with RISP.

AG/DC Jun 24 2008 01:59 PM

I'm looking forward to learning the meaning behind OllieOwned's post.

bmfc1 Jun 24 2008 02:17 PM

="AG/DC"]I'm looking forward to learning the meaning behind OllieOwned's post. Maybe it's half of a tribute to G-FAFIF's website and goes with this picture:

G-Fafif Jun 24 2008 02:18 PM

="OlerudOwned"] Mos definitely.

Frayed Knot Jun 24 2008 02:28 PM

]"Sometimes [Drew] and guys like Adam Dunn start their at bats [with runners in scoring postion] thinking to themselves 'Am I going to swing or take if the count gets to 3-2.'" Folks accused Ted Williams of much the same; not being agressive at times during situations that called a big hit rather than a pass-it-to-the-next-guy walk. How does one Know that? ... well they don't, but I suspect Phillips here is inferring a few things about their mindset based on past observation. A bit of commentator's license perhaps but I've heard a lot worse from talking heads and wouldn't pick this one to go nuts about. P.S. I have no idea what those pictures are all about either.

Vince Coleman Firecracker Jun 24 2008 02:33 PM

="bmfc1"] ="AG/DC"]I'm looking forward to learning the meaning behind OllieOwned's post. Maybe it's half of a tribute to G-FAFIF's website and goes with this picture: Would this be the third?

Benjamin Grimm Jun 24 2008 02:38 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: P.S. I have no idea what those pictures are all about either. Faith. Fear. Flushing. (I had to right-click the photo of the pretty blonde lady to see that it was Faith Hill.)

SteveJRogers Jun 24 2008 02:42 PM

AG/DC wrote: I'm looking forward to learning the meaning behind OllieOwned's post. That would be a photo of one of FireJoeMorgan.com's authors. His day job is a television writer on the staff of NBC's The Office, and occasional will pop into an episode as Dwight's cousin Moshe. "Fear" on his shirt is from an episode where Dwight was prepping a fellow employee for his first sales call. Dwight wanted the employee to fight "fear" so he had his cousin put "fear" on his shirt.