There’s a lot of drama going on with this guy right now. And by drama I mean people freaking out over his home run derby extravaganza. And by people I mean Twitter.
He was raking balls, he looked like his numbers in the first half, he even made his Teen Wolf beard look cool.
But the guy throwing to him was like 70 years old. For anyone who still wants him or feels any inclination to get Corey Hart, just do yourself a favor and become a Brewers fan… Or Braves — which is where he’ll probably end up.
No one was really talking when he put up a whopping zero home runs later in the derby — sure he sat for an hour and a half — but does that give you any right to not hit a single ball over the green fence?
I know I was tweeting like a madman. Derby aside, let’s look at his All-Star Game performance itself..
Oh, 0-for-2 with two strikeouts? Must be because he sat for 22 hours. We all know he is hitting above his averages, but he is actually in just his fourth “full” season. His overall numbers are pretty good and his inflated numbers this year are downright sexy.
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It’s halftime and that means the blogs are going crazy with grading, report cards and analysis, well, we here at Firesabean believe in analyzing one man: Brian Sabean.
There’s a lot of chatter about Sabean-haters not giving Sabes credit where credit is due — which is garbage. I’ve praised him for Uribe, pulling the trigger on the Molina trade and… uh… Uribe! Serious note for the haters: He also deserves praise for Freddy Sanchez (when healthy and we’re not being lied to about how long he’s out) and Huff (but see disclaimer)
MAN, why does everything have a negative attached to it, so weird!
Well, let’s pull out the gradebook and see what we can give our lovable GM at the All-Star Break.
PR Skills
If you ignore his call-in to the Razor and Mr. T Show where he sounded like a 10-year-old crybaby and dropped some infamous quotes like “I’m a big boy”; or his call-out of Bumgarner at the beginning of Spring Training where he threw him under the bus saying:
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BUSTER POSEY ROY CAMPAIGN
Things have been getting pretty negative around here. My anger shouldn’t be directed at neither Schulman nor that four year old I shoved down on the sidewalk last week.
I took a yoga class yesterday and found out how to center my chi. I also kept checking my phone and saw Buster Posey had two more RBI. Then it hit me. IT”S TIME FOR THE ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CAMPAIGN!
We have turned Firesabean.com into the BPROY campaign headquarters.
Compared to the rookie sensation Jason Heyward, if Posey stays on this pace for 35 more games this would be his stats compared with Jasons.
Instead of picking a replacement for the position Jason Heyward plays *cough outfield cough* Phillies manager Charlie Manuel selects… Hong-Chih Kuo… from the Dodgers.. the “my-owner steals-money-from-charity” Dodgers.
I guess he feels bad for kicking their ass every year in the playoffs. Well Charlie, you missed out on the greatest storyline since the 2002 All-Star Game — the one where Torri Hunter robbed Barry of a home run… The one where they tied. TIED!
Imagine, the guy who called the game mentally challenged now starting in the outfield. How awkward of an interview week would that be?
Kuo has pitched in 30 innings, he’s allowed three runs and 11 hits. Awesome..
Well another opportunity missed. Well, guess it’s time to move on to the next campaign. POSEY FOR ROY!!
Jason Heyward had his cast removed a week ago but has announced he will not participate in the 2010 All-Star Game, says my good friends at ESPN. This means we need to not only re-do the Firesabean All-Star Game logo, but push hard for Huff to jump on in.
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AND HE UNBANNED ME!
I know you all have been on the edge of your seats following the “Schulman blocked me on Twitter” saga, well, it has come to an end.
I spent about four days asking everyone in the SF media about why Hank Schulman blocked me on Twitter.. After getting zero e-mails back I decided to hone my investigative journalism skills and tried e-mail him directly.
Not 30 minutes later I got a response!
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Don’t worry, I won’t be the blogger who takes the “One year removed from his no-hitter, Jonathan Sanchez blah blah blah” angle. Nope. I won’t touch it.
Instead, I’ll talk about how his 3.2 inning, five-earned run diarrhea-fest may have put him on a plane straight toward the cheese capital of the country. Only here can you get cheese and diarrhea in one sentence.
OK I may be overreacting — and secretly just wanted to post my photoshop of Dirty in a Brew uniform — but seriously, isn’t that freaky?
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Not that we should be surprised that the pathetic Los Angeles Dodgers are.. well.. pathetic, but this one puts them in a new bracket.
NBC Sports reports that the Dodgers Dream Foundation — which is a nonprofit charity — used $400,000 of its $1.6 million annual budget to pay chairman Howard Sunkin. Sunkin is also the team senior vice president of public affairs (or as NBC puts it, a lobbying position).
The mission for the charity is “serve the educational and athletic needs of children and is supported by donations from the public.” So 25% of the funding goes to this lobbyist?
Man, I guess it could be worse — we could be **shudders** Dodger fans. That’s those silly McCourts! Idiots. Craig Calcaterra put it eloquently:
The only thing we know for sure is that the more we learn about how owners spend their money — the Dodgers owners and every other owner, really — the less we really want to learn.
It’s 732 miles from Milwaukee to Washington D.C. Somewhere in that span the Giants lit their bats on fire and threw them out the windows of their plane. Instead of doing a post-game I decided to reflect on a better time:
If Stephen Strasburg is considered a phenom, then Matt Cain is phenomore. Let me explain by looking at my bullet points.
I chose this weird broom because it signified how strange this entire sweep of a series was.
From the two double-play errors in games one and two that led to 6-1 wins, to a bizarre, but welcomed, 15-run onslaught yesterday… To today’s game — Just weird.
I didn’t actually feel comfortable until the ninth inning today, right after Buster Posey went opposite field for the ump-teenth time. What a freaking stud.
Nevermind the offense, our pitching now has the big question mark. From Zito’s walk-fest to Bautista’s ball-fest to Casilla’s … wait Casilla pitched today? Well, you get the picture. Enter Dan Runzler. With the bases loaded, he gets a strikeout then gets Ryan Braun grounds out to end the inning.
We were stoked, the Giants hold onto 6-3 lead.
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There’s a lot of drama going on with this guy right now. And by drama I mean people freaking out over his home run derby extravaganza. And by people I mean Twitter.
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