The Nightman Cometh wrote:Driving 90 in a modern car, on a typical highway and fair weather in the left lane is not particularly dangerous.

The Autobahn and its normal amount of accidents and deaths for a road that size says hello, which is even more impressive given its proximity to Eastern European countries who may have the most agressive drivers in the world.

BigEd76 wrote:One of the Nats giveaways in August: Werth Chia Beard

“Spring training came and went, and about halfway through spring training, I felt like I had been working all winter, I was ready to play. So I took matters into my own hands and I called every team [but one], and tried to get a job,” Werth said. “The only team I didn’t call? The Mets. I wouldn’t play for them.”

“When they come down, these kids from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, wherever they’re from, they’ve never played baseball in their life,” Werth continued. “When they come down to talk about stuff like [shifts], should I just bunt it over there? They’re like, ‘No, don’t do that. We don’t want you to do that. We want you to hit a homer.’ It’s just not baseball to me. We’re creating something that’s not fun to watch. It’s boring. You’re turning players into robots. You’ve taken the human element out of the game.”

“I think anybody can accept it. You have to understand, when you’re good — and Pat Burrell, he said this in ’07 I think in spring training — if we win, that place wins the best,” Werth said. “The Yankees are a great franchise and they have great fans and all that, but when the Phillies win, I think their fans are the best. And when the Phillies lose, or even when you switch teams in the division, they become the worst. So you get both ends of the spectrum, which makes it great. I think anybody can accept it, Bryce included.”

thephan wrote:On analytics (you might not like it, but its a little funny):

“When they come down, these kids from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, wherever they’re from, they’ve never played baseball in their life,” Werth continued. “When they come down to talk about stuff like [shifts], should I just bunt it over there? They’re like, ‘No, don’t do that. We don’t want you to do that. We want you to hit a homer.’ It’s just not baseball to me. We’re creating something that’s not fun to watch. It’s boring. You’re turning players into robots. You’ve taken the human element out of the game.”

"They've got all these super nerds, as I call them, in the front office that know nothing about baseball but they like to project numbers and project players,"

pacino wrote:the super nerds really liked jayson werth as a player when he was here

Bucky wrote:yeah, and they like the other anti-sabreman, john kruk