You have to watch one of the biggest busts in recent draft history.
I don't have anything to say about Sean Burroughs, really, except that a few years ago Kevin Towers compared his batting style to a guy swinging a tennis racket, and for some reason that's stuck with me. For a fatass he's developed remarkably little power, preferring instead to slap groundballs around the infield and try to beat them out with his Ron Cey shuffle. His offense has completely and utterly stagnated since breaking into professional baseball as an 18 year old, and at this point he's essentially a lost cause. I can't help but think Nick Lachey is somehow involved in all of this.
At 26 you'd think Burroughs still has hope, but honestly, no, I don't think he does. He had all the talent in the world when he was drafted but he never bothered to work to get better, and you know what they say about people changing (they don't). Not that I'm at all upset about this, because it's just Tacoma and I suppose there are worse gambles than a former first-round draft pick, but don't try to read too far into this and see any Major League implications, because there aren't any. Sean Burroughs sucks, and even a front office as comically retarded as Seattle's can see that.
(On the other hand, Hell hath no fury like a Hunter Brown scorned, so this might get interesting.)
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NOOOOO!!!!
First Doyle, now HB26!!! Well, unless, of course, he's getting bumped up to Seattle (yeah, right...)Man, what a horrible, horrible offseason.
PositivePaul - December 22, 2006
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Deanna - December 22, 2006
What might have been
IIRC, several years ago the Mariners were actually considering trading for Burroughs. Might have been part of the trade talks involving Cirillo. At that time Burroughs was still regarded as a viable 3B prospect, though he had shed his up-and-coming all star label.Steve Nelson - December 22, 2006
Isolated Power
WFB career ISP: .017Burroughs career ISP: .018
I was crossing my fingers hoping The Igniter would beat him.
Manzanillos Cup - December 22, 2006
Sean 250/300/300 Burroughs
Yeah, I can't wait, that little nepotist shit.Gomez - December 22, 2006
wut the hell
ZeZetheX - December 22, 2006
*What
I think I should try to be the designated spell checker from now on...BrettJMiller - December 22, 2006
Every site needs one.
And no more than that.Jeff Sullivan - December 22, 2006
Can I be the translator?
Graham MacAree - December 22, 2006
I wonder
how many languages do we cover with regular readers at LL?Deanna has Japanese
I have Mandarin with smatterings of Spanish, German, Esperanto, Korean and ancient Greek (boy does that one come in handy /sarcasm)
Language sound-off people.
Matthew - December 23, 2006
I guess
English, basic French, and a bunch of random Latin.I can also say 'Thank you grandmother, it was delicious' in Cantonese, which is all I've ever really required of that language.
Mandarin's going to be a really useful tool if you're trying to get into baseball, what with the expansion into China.
Graham MacAree - December 23, 2006
I would to get into baseball
but I don't have the connections to land any job high enough in the org charts to sustain my life. With 4 years of $45K+ education behind me I can't exactly take an hourly job answering the phones while I "prove myself" to baseball people.I'm hoping after I get my MBA I might be able to find something, but I'm not holding my breath.
Matthew - December 23, 2006
I'm going to try the proving self thing
My parents are being weirdly supportive of me using my pending M.Eng to be a front office's bitch for a couple of years. They probably find it funny.Graham MacAree - December 23, 2006
Good for you
I wish I had the faith to do the same. I'm left to hope my research pans out into something (which it wont) while I go be a banking whore in Manhatten (puke).Matthew - December 23, 2006
On the plus side,
If I get in you'll know me :PGraham MacAree - December 23, 2006
Just to go ahead and be the first in line
can I have job?Matthew - December 23, 2006
a job, that is.
Despite how the missing articles may make me appear via text, I actually do not originate from eastern europe.Matthew - December 23, 2006
Okiedokie.
Graham MacAree - December 23, 2006
English, Spanish, ancient Greek.
:sigh:Jeff Sullivan - December 23, 2006
a fellow classicist?
Matthew - December 23, 2006
Nope.
Just an idiot who thought Greek 101 would be an easy class in between chemistry major requirements.Jeff Sullivan - December 23, 2006
wow, wrong
so very very wrongMatthew - December 23, 2006
Is ancient Greek
A requirement in high scool that I somehow completely missed?Graham MacAree - December 23, 2006
Not in mine
But Spanish sure was.So English and Spanish for me.
Hoping to learn German someday.
Goose - December 23, 2006
Fun language
with a lot of long, convoluted words, but you knew that ;PI took it while at UNLV and there's a ton of vocabulary, but the basic rules of grammar (conjugation and such) are the same, so that's a huge adjustment you won't need to make. Same rules, basically, different language.
Gomez - December 23, 2006
whee
I can read Hangul... I just don't actually know any words in Korean anymore. But it actually helps when looking through KBO websites, I can at least pick out the right player names.To be fair, my Japanese is between JLPT3 and JLPT2, and I haven't taken a formal class in it since 1999, but since I'm pretty focused in the stuff I use it for most of the time these days (75% baseball, 20% TV/movie plots, 5% video games), I can do pretty well with domain knowledge. If you told me to translate something like the business section of a newspaper, the only words I'd know would probably be the ones that come up in talking about baseball contract negotiations :)
Deanna - December 23, 2006
Spanish
I speak Spanish fluently.Jerry - December 23, 2006
Ach, Gerpotenwogen!
Ich kann ja ein bißchen auf deutsch reden. Es war mein Hauptfach an der Universität, aber ich habe nicht eine Klasse seit 10 Jahren gehabt.Ja tozia gobayoo poRusski, m'noga. Ja izoochaiyool Russki yazeek, v'universitaytay.
In other words, German was my major in college, and I also took a year of Russian. Yes, I had German and Russian class the same quarter once, which made for some interesting language interference. "Uh, Ja, I mean, Da..."
PositivePaul - December 23, 2006
What this site needs:
(A new GM
OR
more alcohol to blur the agony
)
AND
more animated gifs
AND
STAR better talent for the Ms
I fear no matches will be found for the first clause. Lucky for me at least, there's plenty in the second.
Matthew - December 23, 2006
The awful German language
Funny little book/essay by Mark Twain. Highly recommended to anyone who tried to learn this language.Sticking with the language topic I offer German (native), some Latin and some French.
Allen frohe Weihnachten!
VJ
vj - December 24, 2006
Oesday isthay ountcay?
Iya amya uenftlay inya Igpay Atinlay.Steve Nelson - December 25, 2006
Utbay adlysay ackinglay
niay eplyray uttonbay killsays.Graham MacAree - December 25, 2006
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