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Ian Snell Is Really Different

On the one hand, at least he's changing things up, I guess. A true one-two punch refers to blows delivered in rapid succession. Oftentimes an entire day will pass between baseball games, and sometimes the delay will be even longer. Unless we're talking about geological phenomena or biological evolution, 24 hours generally doesn't qualify as 'rapid'.

On the other hand,

"This is about as good as a right left punch can get. It gives me a boost of energy knowing that this is what the team is doing and that expectations are we will go further."

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This is a true right left punch straight to Hendu's old magician's basket.

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I can't stop laughing about the last one.
Huh

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I heard a snippet of an Ian Snell interview on the radio recently.

He was discussing Wakamatsu, their first interactions and how things have been for him since. I’d really like to hear the entire thing, he sounded pretty happy.

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Well played

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Damn
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Jeff, you are truly on the roll.
And just like that, there are now 2 results.
This guy's really gonna grow on me
Yeah, Sullivan's gonna be really good at this blogging thing one of these days

oh wait that’s not what you meant

Nah, he's bound to post some unfunny articles soon.

That’s why they call it average, you know.

Ian Snell might be my favorite mariner.

He would’ve stabbed Cupcakes after the Ichiro incident.

But then no one would remember Jason Ellison
Oh yeah, that guy.
Hwy, Randy Johnson is still a free agent, right?

Can we sign him and have a right-left-left-right-left punch?

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Carlos Lee?
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The great thing about this quote

Snell’s version of the cliche is much better.

Maybe he likes Rocky movies...
felix hernandez cliff lee "right left punch"

now has 4 hits, 2 are you guys, 2 are shannon drayer quoting snell

According to Kurkjian, Wainwright and Carpenter are still the best 1-2 punch in baseball due to their season's last year.

Wainwright/Carpenter 2009 WAR: 11.3
Felix/Lee 2009 WAR: 13.7

Kurkjian also said...

If you take postseason Cliff Lee and Felix then we have best right/left combo. So that discredits him for not recognizing sample sizes.

And he also said that Jason Bay would be the "perfect fit" to be our starting left fielder next season.

So yeah, he’s no Bill James.

It's going to be fun watching the Mets outbid themselves for Bay.
If Felix and Lee can have as good a 2010 as the St Louis pitchers had in 2009, I would be delighted.
If Felix/CLIFFLEE can repeat last year's numbers.

It will be even better.

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