Dunn is America
by Caleb on Mar 1, 2009 6:44 PM EST
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PrintAdam Dunn joined Tean USA for the WBC. Nationals first baseman/outfielder Adam Dunn will represent Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.
Dunn is replacing Rockies outfielder Brad Hawpe, who received four stitches after being accidentally spiked on a play at second base during Friday's game vs. the Angels. The news was announced after Dunn went 1-for-2 with a walk against the Orioles on Sunday afternoon at Space Coast Stadium. He is expected to join Team USA in Clearwater, Fla., on Sunday night.
Dunn was approached about joining the team Saturday, when he received a text message from former teammate and Team USA assistant coach Barry Larkin. Manager Davey Johnson then called Dunn, who accepted the invitation after having a conversation with Nationals manager Manny Acta.
"You get to play for your country," Dunn said."It's a good thing to get in serious games and break up the monotony of spring. I would assume your concentration level [is at an all-time high]. I would kind of compare it to the playoffs. All the games are a must-win."
Dunn is in his first season with the Nationals after signing a two-year, $20 million contract last month.
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There you go, Daedalus
I didn’t know Larkin was an assistant coach. That’s pretty rad.
And Adam, quit fronting like you know what the playoffs are like.
"I would assume your concentration level would be at an all-time high."
That was what Dunn’s problem was! TREAT EVERY GAME LIKE ITS WBC!
/Brennaman’d
...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield
Sping training
Danny Graves is warming up in the Houston bullpen right now. The Mets are crushing Houston pitching tonight, so this should be fun . . .
Graves is in.
And it appears I’m watching a rerun of a game played earlier today. Well this is a good use if time.
Graves hasn't hit above 82 so far, has he?
Also, who’s doing the color commentary for the Mets broadcast?
"Sometimes I listen for Griffey’s infectious laugh or Dunn’s humor and wit. But they’re gone." - Dusty
by BK on Mar 1, 2009 11:22 PM EST up reply actions
I guess he's the third guy in the booth
This guy sounds barely coherent. Madville?
"Sometimes I listen for Griffey’s infectious laugh or Dunn’s humor and wit. But they’re gone." - Dusty
by BK on Mar 1, 2009 11:23 PM EST up reply actions
You Rang?
Graves is on the mound and he looks into the catcher for the sign…
he shakes him off…
and again
now Graves is looking pissed off and he shakes off the catcher a 3rd time
Grave gets the sign and delivers the pitch…
The batter Ricardo Enrique Dufas, 38 year old non roster invitee for the Astros who’s never played above A ball, drills this one deep, deep and its out of here….a monster home room! Dufus 1st ever in organized baseball!!!!
Whoa Graves is sullen…now he’s called the catcher out to the mound, he pulls out his johnson and pisses on the catcher’s shoes and he shakes him off again…
Graves is a scrappy little competitor…..
肏你祖宗十八代 - and your sister too !
It was Ralph Kiner
He knew everything there was to know about baseball. Did you know that Lance Berkman has the highest career slugging percentage of any switch hitter? Higher than Mickey Mantle. Ralph knew.
Let's be honest
It’s not making a difference for the Nationals this year.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 2, 2009 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
Although
Apparently Jonny Gomes needs ST to learn first base.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 2, 2009 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
The way he figures it, he’s already been there and he plans on rounding second tonight at around eleven o’clock.
"How big IS your magic wand?"
I would say he should check with Mark Berry,
but we all know Berry’s forgotten how to put up a stop sign.
What's Elaine say?
Well, I’d be checking the third base coach, because I don’t think he’s waving you in. More topical was the lead in
Well so what. I mean you played first base. I mean they always put the worst player on first base. That’s were they put me and I stunk.
Dunner, as much as I love him and wish he was this team, should give Elaine a run for her money in the “stinking at first base” department.
Wow.
The Reds have a lot of good young ballplayers.
How many more organizations have more WBC players?
"Dr. Two-Brains has a strange name because he does have two brains but he's not really a doctor. He just steals cheese."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 2, 2009 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
Anybody read Doc today?
In talking shit about what an arrogant bastard Bowden is, he manages to take a shot at Dunn. For all of the hyperbola about stat heads and our love affair with Dunn, I always find it interesting to see how traditionalists (or fuckwits as I like to call them) go out of their way to talk shit about him in an inconsequential and irrelevant way. Kind of like the folks who hate gay people sooooooo much that they happen to end up in airport shitters adopting a wide stance.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
Yeah Doc hated Dunn
for all that getting on base and hitting homers and stuff. You can see how that’s annoying when all you want to do is carp and complain and you don’t the first damned thing about baseball.
To paraphrase Don Mattingly from the Simpsons: I still like him [Doc] better than Marty."
I didn't know Adam was gay.....(This is a Joke cemment, Sis D, I am not homophonic) Humor is most fair and fun when it is all incluisive.
BTW
P-Doc is a turd that just won’t flush…
肏你祖宗十八代 - and your sister too !
Spoiler Alert
The Kid’s therapist was gay.
People Don't Kill People. Burning Couches Kill People.
by crolfer on Mar 2, 2009 10:59 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I laid my bed and I'm going to have to sit on it. - A-Roid the Liar
by PeteyHendrix on Mar 3, 2009 12:00 AM EST up reply actions
Just another Dustyism that I picked up at the bus station
Perhaps a a flatbed truck loaded with cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek convention. One can only dream and hope.
If anyone's wondering
Team USA played the Evil Empire today. Or, as the local TV coverage put it, “Derek Jeter vs. the Yankees.”
Adam Dunn was 0 for 4 with three strikeouts (though he did get a run and a RBI on an error). He batted fifth, and played LF and 1B.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
That's a great headline.
I expect someone will go tomorrow with “Eaton an Oriole, GM Eats Crow”
I laid my bed and I'm going to have to sit on it. - A-Roid the Liar
by PeteyHendrix on Mar 5, 2009 12:48 AM EST up reply actions
"GM Eats Crow"
Isn’t that what Bowden ended up doing, basically?
...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield
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