Good quote from Emaus. I imagine if you polled most hitters that walked a lot, very few — if any — of them would say they’re going to the plate looking to draw a walk. They’re going to the plate looking for a pitch to hit, but are selective enough and have a strong enough sense of the strike zone to lay off pitches they can’t.
Like I said, as long as the tacos in question still taste great and don’t instantly kill me, I’m going to keep eating them. Now I know they’ve got oats in them, too. Hey, that’s healthy!
Wait a minute, this guy gets to be both the president and Chief Concept Officer at Taco Bell? He can have the presidency, but I’m gunning for that Chief Concept Officer job. Hell, I’d like that to me my title anywhere. From here on out I’m introducing myself as the Chief Concept Officer of SNY.tv.
There was a lot of snickering — by me, among others — after the Mets’ announcement that they’d hold a press conference to introduce Chin-Lung Hu. But Adam Rubin suggested, accurately I imagine, that a press conference to accommodate the Taiwanese media made sense.
Anyway, this vaguely brings me back to something I got at earlier this offseason: I wonder if there is any advantage, in picking between two all-field no-hit utility infielders, in picking the one from Taiwan instead of the one from California (or the Dominican Republic or anyplace else that typically produces Major Leaguers).
Could Hu’s presence have any impact on the team financially? I believe revenue from international broadcasts and merchandise sales are shared among the MLB teams, but will members of the Taiwanese community in New York be so much more inclined to show up to Mets games to have a noticeable affect on ticket sales? Did anyone chart turnout by demographic at Chien-Ming Wang’s starts?
Does it benefit the team’s “brand” internationally, and does that matter at all? Does it help them with amateur scouting in Taiwan?
Obviously, like Alderson says, it must be first and foremost a baseball move. But is it weird to wonder if there’s any real, identifiable added value derived from Hu being Taiwanese? Has any of this been studied? Should I just keep asking open-ended speculative questions?
Wow.
I think it speaks to Favre’s legacy that the verb “to Brett Favre” no longer means, “to scramble around then chuck up a 50-yard interception to a defender that’s nowhere near any of your receivers downfield.” Now it either means “to pretend to retire then unretire” or “to text message photos of your junk.”
Via Deadspin. I’ve got nothing.
First, do we really consider the chicken our friend? If so, it can’t be mutual. We eat their eggs for breakfast. Also, does he mean “money” like “you’re so money,” like in Swingers, or does he mean pigeons were once actually used as currency?
Tedquarters 