Comments on: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Your Name Must Be Daniel Murphy

By: Craft Beer

Craft Beer — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:06:30 +0000

Life is too short for bad beer.

By: metsgod97

metsgod97 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:38:59 +0000

First of all, I like Luis Castillo offensively. Oh, and if you didn’t realize, Mike Jacobs sucks at baseball, and Shane Victorino and Chone Figgins are people that commentators like Joe Morgan like. If you don’t get this sarcasm you truly are an idiot.

By: Francis

Francis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:12:15 +0000

It’s not ideal, but if he improves slightly with the bat– entirely possible, with a slight uptick in plate discipline– and you’ve got superlative offensive value elsewhere (say, 3B, CF, SS and LF), it’s workable.

By: James K.

James K. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:07:08 +0000

Interesting, I read that post and didn’t realize it was using sabermetrics to make a case for Murphy. Thanks for providing.

Also, I never said there’s something “wrong” with liking a player for whatever reason (in this case Francoeur), just that it seems hypocritical to write this piece slamming Murphy because he was the worst hitting 1B in the league while never once mentioning over the last couple months that Francoeur was the 2nd worst hitting RF in the league. That’s all.

By: Joe D

Joe D — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:59:40 +0000

It’s my opinion that Francoeur will be better than what he was with the braves with a new hitting coach and a willingness to work closely with HoJo where he will be in November participating at his hitting clinic.

What is so wrong with being a Francoeur fan? I’m a Mets fan and he’s become one of my favorite Mets. There really is no mysterious secret to why I like certain players, I just do.

Regarding Murphy, I don’t hate him, I just like LaRoche, Feilder and Gonzalez better than him as an everyday first baseman. I view Murphy as a Dave Magadan type and would like to see him stay on the team as utility guy and pinch hitter.

Believe it or not, we do have saber friendly writers on this site, and this post was in response to another post on this site that ran 3 days earlier. http://metsmerizedonline.com/2009/10/murphy-francesa-and-the-future.html

peace…

By: James K.

James K. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:41:29 +0000

Murphy is no lightning rod, for me atleast – selective use of stats to fit your personal beliefs about players is the lightning rod. You like Francoeur and don’t like Murphy. You use a stat (in this post) to show that Murphy sucks at hitting compared to other 1st basemen. Yet you would never do this same analysis for Francoeur because you like him.

This statement is also puzzling:

“I found it odd that some saber friendly Mets fans are so quick to defend Murphy on his inability to draw walks ”

Which “saber friendly” Mets fans have been quick to defend Murphy? I know I haven’t, for one, and have actually made numerous writeups this year saying it’s foolish to keep Murphy at 1B this year. If you could provide a link to some saber friendly Met fan praising Murphy I would greatly appreciate it.

By: Lifelongmetsfan

Lifelongmetsfan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:09:56 +0000

Let me get this straight the sarcasm in the above you wrote is in reagrds to Jeff Francoeur being a gritty player who has helped David Wright’s game???

But then you state you want the Mets to make 3 trades this off season. This is sarcasm also? You advocate for the trades below.

1st trade: trade for Mike Jacobs because you state, “he is gritty and 92 rbi’s”

2nd Trade: “trade for Shane Victorino; He is a winner. He can play center next year while Beltran moves to left”

3rd Trade: “Trade Jose Reyes. The dude was milking it, was a wimp and celebrates to much.

You then go on to say that the Mets should obtain Chone Figginsto replace Reyes becasue, “…He’s like David Eckstein, except better. He’s obviously a winner.”

What you gave up trying to obtain Randy Winn? NAd what no Luis Castillo bashing?

By: Metsgod97

Metsgod97 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:46:43 +0000

You obviously don’t understand sarcasm.
IDIOT

By: Evan_S

Evan_S — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:12:52 +0000

Seeing that you couldn’t interpret obvious sarcasm, I’m going to agree with you, you are the idiot.

By: Lifelongmetsfan

Lifelongmetsfan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:04:59 +0000

metsgod97 says:
October 13, 2009 at 7:06 am

“You are an idiot. You know, one of these people that other people laugh at because of your stupidity”

Metsgod97 wrote the following on October 11 2009:

“Jeff Francoeur is a gritty player. Despite the fact that he is not very good at walking (it’s because he’s manly!) he still is a leader and re energized David Wright. This team has no heart, grission, or leadership and needs more of these players players like Francoer. My solution?
Trade for Mike Jacobs. He’s gritty and had 92 RBI’s
trade for Shane Victorino; He is a winner. He can play center next year while Beltran moves to left. Trade Jose Reyes. The dude was milking it, was a wimp and celebrates to much. Replace Reyes with Chone Figgins. He’s like David Eckstein, except better. He’s obviously a winner. Sign Eckstein for backup infield, and for his leadership and winning abilities.”

HAHHAhaaaaaaaa HAaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yeah I’m the idiot. HAhahahahahaha