Today on Twitter, I set the over-under on Jeff Francoeur-themed sidebars in New York papers during the ALCS at 20.
So far we’re at two, this epic from the Daily News and this one I can’t read from Newsday.
I will try to stay vigilant, but I’d appreciate all the help I could get in monitoring this situation. So please, if you find a story about Jeff Francoeur in a local paper, please alert me via the comments section or the contact box at the above right.
But I’m not interested in stories that just quote Jeff Francoeur somewhere — that’s basically all of them; they have to be about Jeff Francoeur. Items in notebook/roundup pieces are fine as long as Francoeur gets his own dedicated subhead inside the article.
Why do I care? Because I’m a jackass, primarily. But also because I’m really, really interested in knowing how Jeff Francoeur feels about his first taste of the postseason in New York, what it’s like for him to be back here after leaving so recently, what he thinks about Cliff Lee, how he has fit into the Rangers’ clubhouse, his favorite places to eat in New York, and something about his dogs.
Tedquarters 
I want to know how the signal is on a Metro PCS phone in Texas.
Way to work not one, but two links into the dateline of that Rubin feature, Daily News. If I see “Florida” results feeding into the “Fla.” results, I’m gonna be pissed.
I was watching Game 5 on the Rays-Rangers Series with my Mom (whose basement I do not live in – anymore) and when Frenchy came to bat I asked if she recognized him. She could vaguely recognize the face but as soon as he wildly swung and missed at a David Price slider at his feet she shouted “That’s Francouer!!!”
Big day for the Frenchy Tracker.
Story in Post, blog entry in Times.
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/francoeur-misses-his-friends-but-is-happy-in-the-playoffs/
http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/frenchy_thrilled_at_shot_to_shine_Upd4b9eEkKQSbnnguvcGSO
All over ’em. Frenchy Tracker update coming before the hour is up.
I love when guys like Francoeur leave the Mets, then talk bad about the team when they leave (although Frenchy was polite and mild compared to others), and act like something else within the Mets was the problem, and not them.
Frenchy was a HUGE HUGE part of the reason why the team struggled, does he not realize this?
How come we always hear about how Frenchy had a football scholarship to Clemson? Has this ever been verified? If he had a scholarship to Clemson it is logical to assume that he had a scholarship offer to some other places and yet we always only hear about the Clemson offer. I don’t want to get into conspiracy theories but something here doesn’t make sense. Also I know if I were to fake having a football scholarship Clemson would be an ideal choice to use for this myth. The school usually has a good enough program (top 25 but rarely top 10) but not a great program. Enough people are familiar with Clemson’s football team so that there is some perceived value in saying that you had a scholarship but it is not the type of powerhouse (like Ohio St, Florida, Texas, etc) that people would immediately call B.S. on.