Does Josh Hamilton deserve to be an All-Star?
by overthemonster on Jul 6, 2009 9:41 AM EDT
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Does Josh Hamilton Deserve to be an All-Star?
No offense to Josh, he's a great player and has an amazing story but he's been injured since May. According to ESPN.com, these are his 2009 Season Stats:
SPLITS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Season35 125 20 30 5 2 6 24 3 0 240 .290 .456 .746
Those numbers are not good enough to start in an All Star Game. Maybe if he continued to bat like that he could only be a reserve. And right now, he doesn't deserve to be an All Star.
He is set to be back in the Rangers lineup tonight against the Angels. Unless he goes crazy and hits 10 homeruns before the break, he wont deserve that All Star spot.
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Ok, who voted Yes?
Come on, Josh, admit it was you!
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
He paid Chris Davis to stuff the yes box
Now that he got demoted he needs all the money he can get, (going to invest in batting lessons).
PREPAREDNESS_Because those goddamn zombies aren’t going to kill themselves
With those numbers NEVER
but hes a good player. I wonder if people would be complaining if Pujols would be an allstar if he was batting .315 with 10 HR. Just not his norm
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded. - Yogi Berra
He's one of the best players in baseball.
Not his fault he got injured – if the fans want him there, he deserves it.
Side note – why did the author of this post use the Sox’ blog’s name as his?
OverTheMonster - ALLERGEN WARNING: May contain peanut butter.
i disagree. it is his fault that he got injured.
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
that was supposed to be sarcasm...
sorry I suck at jokes
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
by winchester5 on Jul 20, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions
He's a role model!!!
“Why?”
“He stopped doing heroin!”
“So…he teaches our kids that heroin is something that can be overcome?”
“Yep!”
“Umm…what? Shouldn’t we say role models are guys who never did heroin in the first place?”
“So…uh…David Eckstein? I think?”
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on Jul 6, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
the old noggin
but I’m sure I’m not the first to point this out, haha.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
Eh.
It’s a dangerous way to teach kids through role models. As long as they know that the lesson is that when coming back from a extreme hardship, and not that doing drugs is okay if you can stop using, they should be fine.
OverTheMonster - ALLERGEN WARNING: May contain peanut butter.
Squid i have ALWAYS thought this way. Thanks for saying it! lol
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
This is what you get when you let fans pick the starters.
One time, a loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg time ago, the Cincinnati fans voted something like 7 players to the starting lineup. Fans vote for past deeds more than current seasons.
Now don’t get me wrong. I really like Josh Hamilton but he is not having an all-star caliber season.
"I've had pretty good success with Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third." - Carl Erskine
... past deeds...
I’m all for accounting for past deeds and all. The voters should certainly take into effect the previous season because voting for the guy with the best April & May is a bit silly… especially considering how early in the season the voting starts. That said, Hamilton doesn’t exactly have a long established history of greatness. I’d understand if A-Rod or Pujols won the fan vote while getting off to a sluggish start, but Hamilton only has one full season under his belt. I’m scratching my head as to how he’s gotten so popular.
But if fans couldn’t find three other AL outfielders to vote for ahead of him, then I guess he gets to start. Fans get the All-Stars they want. shrug
Scratching your head? Really?
He got voted in because of his HR Derby show last year.
If you were thinking, you wouldn't have thought that.
http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?showforum=129
Hell no
There are only two players I have a problem with, (three if Pena gets voted on) they are Josh and Ryan Howard. Both are having down years and should not be in the all-star game. Josh got voted in so I can’t really complain about him but there is no excuse for Howard being an all-star when much more deserving players, (P. Sandoval, M. Reynolds, M. Kemp).
PREPAREDNESS_Because those goddamn zombies aren’t going to kill themselves
Howard has a crap load of h\omers at least....
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
Which means no where near as much as you probably think.
OverTheMonster - ALLERGEN WARNING: May contain peanut butter.
i think he has like 20. Thats not a bad number....
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
by winchester5 on Jul 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
This is most definitely nothing more than a popularity contest
Skill and being deserving of the ASG are secondary. Josh Hamilton’s story is impressive. His HR Derby last year was remarkable ( but let’s not forget, he didn’t win ). The Rangers are in first place. If the vote was based on kicking a drug addiction, well, he and quite a few other players would be deserving. But this is supposed to be about on the field performance, not feel good stories narrated by Bob Costas or Bryant Gumbel. He has been gone for almost the entire first half. This is just more proof, give the fans the vote, they’ll vote in the pretty-boys and newest flavors of the month.
YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....
Varitek in '08
made the All-Star team despite hitting .216 which was the worst BA ever in the history of the All-Star game.
Every year there are atrocities like this committed and it never gets resolved so why not just accept it? The whining is getting repetitive.
"Stupid sexy Flanders!!!"
- Homer Simpson
Between the ratification of the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation
there were a lot of atrocities regarding slavery and nothing was getting resolved.
"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"
loololololol
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
by winchester5 on Jul 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Varitek last year was voted in by the players
Who (and this is my opinion) they voted him in to block that douchebag A.J. Pierzynski.
This team is our extended family, That's why we love them no matter what the record, no matter what the score.
by halofan4life on Jul 21, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Hell, Rollins was almost voted in this year
Hearing arguments about why that would be a good idea made for a good afternoon.
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