Pollyellon banned me

[Shooter]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

[Kermit IV]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

[Bort]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

Good.  I need someone new to hate next year.  He'll do nicely.

[Bort]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

Good.  I need someone new to hate next year.  He'll do nicely.

I have faith that the Cubs will never stop providing us with new reasons to hate.

[powen01]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

Good.  I need someone new to hate next year.  He'll do nicely.

I have faith that the Cubs will never stop providing us with new reasons to hate.

It's gonna HAI!

[morpheus]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

I have to ask.  The "AA" in "AAron Miles."  Deliberate?

[Bort]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

I have to ask.  The "AA" in "AAron Miles."  Deliberate?

[hangs head] Yes.

It dates back to a serindipitous typo I made on TMS. Back when I blogged.

[Yeti]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

I have to ask.  The "AA" in "AAron Miles."  Deliberate?

[hangs head] Yes.

It dates back to a serindipitous typo I made on TMS. Back when I blogged.

Kerm knows that feeling

[Bort]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

I have to ask.  The "AA" in "AAron Miles."  Deliberate?

[hangs head] Yes.

It dates back to a serindipitous typo I made on TMS. Back when I blogged.

Kerm knows that feeling

Who's Kerm?

[ChuckD]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

I'm intrigued by his zero walks in 37 PAs. And his .324 slugging.

Not me.  I'm only intrigued by his 54 OPS+.

Whoa, that's sub-Neifi, but still above AAron Miles. He should have a pretty long career here.

I'm glad that I have absolutely no idea who you guys are talking about.

[Yeti]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

See, this is why I turn to stats to analyze shit. Yellon's saying that he's a good defensive 2B. Then you say he sucks. I may have seen him play this year. May not. I don't know. I just can't remember it. However, here we have two completely contrasting viewpoints (and by the way, I trust yours more because Yellon is a dope), but the point remains that our eyes are relatively unreliable. They pretty much provide a Chuck-like confirmation bias. If you see Colvin make a couple nice throws, then one might deduce that he has an above average arm (also, statements like "he has an above average arm", I hate. What is average in this matter? And what's that based off of? Did you line up all the CFs and have them make a toss to the plate and judge it based off of that?). However,  the assumption about Colvin could be completely wrong, but because we saw a couple nice throws once, any nice throw afterwards just affirms what we thought without regard to all the shitty throws/decisions he may have made. Although defensive metrics are an inexact science, I will still trust them over a fan's opinion. They provide more of a structured control to base assessments of players.

In short, Al sucks, stats rule, tits are awesome, and I love gashes /diatribe

[Internet Apex]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

See, this is why I turn to stats to analyze shit. Yellon's saying that he's a good defensive 2B. Then you say he sucks. I may have seen him play this year. May not. I don't know. I just can't remember it. However, here we have two completely contrasting viewpoints (and by the way, I trust yours more because Yellon is a dope), but the point remains that our eyes are relatively unreliable. They pretty much provide a Chuck-like confirmation bias. If you see Colvin make a couple nice throws, then one might deduce that he has an above average arm (also, statements like "he has an above average arm", I hate. What is average in this matter? And what's that based off of? Did you line up all the CFs and have them make a toss to the plate and judge it based off of that?). However,  the assumption about Colvin could be completely wrong, but because we saw a couple nice throws once, any nice throw afterwards just affirms what we thought without regard to all the shitty throws/decisions he may have made. Although defensive metrics are an inexact science, I will still trust them over a fan's opinion. They provide more of a structured control to base assessments of players.

In short, Al sucks, stats rule, tits are awesome, and I love gashes /diatribe

Chuck-Like Confirmation Bias is one of the most overrated punk bands of the something something loud noises era.

[Bort]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

See, this is why I turn to stats to analyze shit. Yellon's saying that he's a good defensive 2B. Then you say he sucks. I may have seen him play this year. May not. I don't know. I just can't remember it. However, here we have two completely contrasting viewpoints (and by the way, I trust yours more because Yellon is a dope), but the point remains that our eyes are relatively unreliable. They pretty much provide a Chuck-like confirmation bias. If you see Colvin make a couple nice throws, then one might deduce that he has an above average arm (also, statements like "he has an above average arm", I hate. What is average in this matter? And what's that based off of? Did you line up all the CFs and have them make a toss to the plate and judge it based off of that?). However,  the assumption about Colvin could be completely wrong, but because we saw a couple nice throws once, any nice throw afterwards just affirms what we thought without regard to all the shitty throws/decisions he may have made. Although defensive metrics are an inexact science, I will still trust them over a fan's opinion. They provide more of a structured control to base assessments of players.

In short, Al sucks, stats rule, tits are awesome, and I love gashes /diatribe

Chuck-Like Confirmation Bias is one of the most overrated punk bands of the something something loud noises era.

Eh, they put out a pretty good EP on Forkjoke Records.

[Slaky]

Barney looks REAL good in the field.
Smooth hands and good footwork, natural instincts. Looks like he can hit a little, too. He'll be a fine backup middle infielder next year.

Al's sporting a boner for Theriot 2 already.  I've been to two games (98 more to go before you can take the following seriously) and both times Barney looked like the worst defender on the field.  Screw Al and screw the Cubs' endless parade of middle infield midgets.

See, this is why I turn to stats to analyze shit. Yellon's saying that he's a good defensive 2B. Then you say he sucks. I may have seen him play this year. May not. I don't know. I just can't remember it. However, here we have two completely contrasting viewpoints (and by the way, I trust yours more because Yellon is a dope), but the point remains that our eyes are relatively unreliable. They pretty much provide a Chuck-like confirmation bias. If you see Colvin make a couple nice throws, then one might deduce that he has an above average arm (also, statements like "he has an above average arm", I hate. What is average in this matter? And what's that based off of? Did you line up all the CFs and have them make a toss to the plate and judge it based off of that?). However,  the assumption about Colvin could be completely wrong, but because we saw a couple nice throws once, any nice throw afterwards just affirms what we thought without regard to all the shitty throws/decisions he may have made. Although defensive metrics are an inexact science, I will still trust them over a fan's opinion. They provide more of a structured control to base assessments of players.

In short, Al sucks, stats rule, tits are awesome, and I love gashes /diatribe

Chuck-Like Confirmation Bias is one of the most overrated punk bands of the something something loud noises era.

Eh, they put out a pretty good EP on Forkjoke Records.

Both of these things should exist as they do in this series of witticisms.