Dear Beane-face,
No more Swish? Like, seriously? Billy, you stupid piece of over-hyped crap, say it ain't so. I mean, I've read Moneyball, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but I thought we liked the guys who could generate runs. I thought we liked walks (of which Nicky-poo had 100 last season - 6th in the AL). I thought we liked high on-base percentages (like Swishy's career-high .381 last year). Err, I thought we wanted to WIN.
So why the hell are we dealing away one of our best young players when he's still on his way up? Not to mention the fact that he was one of the few reasons that at least a handful of fans showed up to games in '07 (in a pathetic attempt to fill up the half of the stadium that was actually open).
I mean, I thought it was bad before when you gave away Haren, another still-rising young star (15-9 last year, with a 3.07 ERA). But this is just ridiculous. What kind of retarded system are you using to make these decisions?
At this rate, you might as well just pack up and move to an old, boring, dirty suburb where no one will come watch you play. Oh, wait. You're already doing that.
Billy, in summary, I would just like to say GO TO HELL. I don't care if you're "replenishing the farm system, blahblahblah...", you're ruining MY team by getting rid of some of the most promising players, and I hate you for it.
Oh, and did I mention that they were also 2 of the cutest guys on the team? Teehee.
Screw you,
The Sports Biotch
Friday, January 4, 2008
To: Billy Beane, Re: Nick Swisher
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Full disclosure... I'm not an A's fan, but have always admired Billy Beane. I didn't like the Haren trade for the A's because they got more a puu puu platter of prospects rather than one or two studs, but I definitely feel Billy won this trade. Swisher is a nice player and a bit underrated since most people still don't understand the importance of On Base Percentage. He is more of a great complimentary player on a winning team than a star. The three guys the A's got for him will all be starters and important to their future.
Move to Boston. Learn to love the Red Sox. We still have Jacoby Ellsbury. And if we lose him, at least we'll be getting someone like Santana.
Plus, Jacoby's HOT!
In a totally hetero kind of way.
Sweet, another chick sports blog!
Yay!
Granted this was written in January, but now that it's June 12th and the A's are 35-30 and 2.5 games out of the wild card, can you agree not to bash Billy Beane again? Please? He's by far the best GM in baseball. I'd expect this from someone who hasn't read Moneyball. The A's payroll is probably less than Yardbarker's and they have a competitive team practically every year.
Haren's a nice player but the A's got Carlos Gonzalez, Greg Smith, Dana Eveland and 34 other prospects from the D'Backs for him. And Swisher's numbers aren't that much better than as one of the players traded for him, Ryan Sweeney, and Swisher has almost twice as many at bats. Did you learn nothing about doubting Billy Beane from the Mark Mulder trade?
Okay, okay. I can admit that I was wrong on that.
But I'm sticking to my opinion that Swisher and Haren were way cuter than the new guys.
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