I miss firejoemorgan.com

Morgan: "Korean players don't chase a lot of balls outside of the strike zone"

Next pitch: Korean player chases a ball out of the strike zone.

Back In Action

Now that I don't have Fire Joe Morgan to read all the time, and I miss baseball, I'm gonna give blogging bout baseball another shot. Plus I got an e-mail the other day reminding myself I have this blog, so visit http://www.peterrobertcasey.com and thank him if you like the crap I write. It's not like I'm even trying to be controversial, I just like baseball ALOT.

As for today's most hyperbolic quote of the day I found this paragraph on the Hot Stove Blog for mlb.com regarding Peavy trade talks with Atlanta, which earlier had included Yunel Escobar, the Braves SS.
'A month ago the Braves were willing to provide the Padres with a package highlighted by Escobar. But because they used Brent Lillibridge to acquire Javier Vazquez last week, they no longer are willing to entertain thoughts of dealing Escobar, who one veteran Braves player considers, "the best shortstop in the National League."'

Really? Yunel Escobar is better than Jimmy Rollins, Jose Reyes, Stephen Drew, Rafael Furcal (when healthy) AND Troy Tulowitzki???? And none of those is even as good as the Marlins own SS Hanley Ramirez. I really wonde rwho that veteran Braves player is. For the Florida Marlins sake, I hope he becomes an assistant to the GM for the Braves when he retires.

This is how Brian Sabean decided to spend $126 million

On a middle reliever...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Zito calmly accepted his demotion to the bullpen Monday and vowed that he soon would rejoin the Giants' starting rotation, although manager Bruce Bochy didn't offer a timetable for that event.

Bochy announced the move one day after Zito's worst performance of the season, a three-inning, eight-run outing in a 10-1 loss to Cincinnati. That dropped Zito's record to a Major League-worst 0-6. He also owns a 7.53 ERA and a .336 opponents' batting average, well above the respective National League averages of 4.06 and .255.

Heck, even FJM had a whole post making fun of a blogger trying really horribly to defend Sabean.

On a different note, however, I found a link on baseballprospectus.com to this study on how different pitches affect the arm and elbow.

E-mail Fun

Ken Tremendous (Michael Schur) of FJM and Keith Law of ESPN.com are both awesome in my book. So why not try and coax a personal e-mail from both of them. I'll start with KT:

I love how in your latest post u misspelled "pitching" as "picthing" when trying to imitate Joe Morgan. Brilliant! (even if not on purpose) not concetrate, but hey you tried.

Also, you responded to my friend Andrew Walker, and now he is the cock on the block (should have said walk, but w/e) as he stated, so if it's not too much trouble to ask and I won't ever again (ok don't remember that for next time) could you respond with a "hi" or something so I could show my friends I got an e-mail from the writer for "The Office" (oh and of course the firejoemorgan.com genius)
Thanks!

Go Florida Marlins!

-Alex

And here is the response I got in my e-mail from none other than KT himself:

I'm not sure being the "cock on the block" is something to brag about.

Also: hi.

And thanks for reading.

KT

So not exactly what I was hoping for, but a response is a response. From Ken Tremendous!

The next one is from Keith Law, writer for ESPN.com and apparent FJM fan on Facebook. This is of course a Facebook message both to and from:

A Fan of Yours

Between Keith Law and You

Today at 1:01am

I was going through the FJM Fan List and saw "Kieth Law" and your pic and was pleasantly surprised. You don't of course know me, but I just wanted to let you know that in a world of insane and unreasonable journalists, you are by far my favorite (Rob Neyer being a close second.) I just think it's so cool that you are actually on Facebook and apparently read FJM.
Your Fan
- Alex (Go Marlins!)

Keith Law

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Today at 11:15pm

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Alex:
Yes, that's me, and I'm a big FJM fan. I hate fatuous, ignorant baseball writing, and I love the way they dismantle it.
Thanks for the kind words.
Keith




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