phdave wrote:

Moreover, Brown had already shown he could hit Double-A and Triple-A pitching and could only advance as a hitter if he played every day in the majors. Sending him to Lehigh Valley would be as nonsensical as Luke Skywalker, upon hearing that Yoda had nothing more to teach him, had said, "You know what? I’m not going to fight the Empire. It might be momentarily inconvenient, so I’m going to sit here on Dagobah to eat snakes and run through the fog."

Barry Jive wrote:anybody know if this is a reference to something? or is it just rote sarcasm

http://crashburnalley.com/2013/02/27/ph ... han-brown/

phdave wrote:

The Phillies, under Ruben Amaro, are like Czarist Russia, a vast empire of tremendous power and blessed with incredible resources that’s so in love with the fashions and practices of 50 years prior that that power and those resources were, and will be, squandered in a massive blaze and at the cost of unimaginable human suffering. And the next people to take over will be a marginal improvement intellectually but little better practically. And we’ll spend the next 10 years in undignified retreat, watching our crops and oil fields burn because our leaders are too obsessed with superstitions and customs that the rest of the world laughed out of the culture as obsolete before we were even born

Grotewold wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:anybody know if this is a reference to something? or is it just rote sarcasm

http://crashburnalley.com/2013/02/27/ph ... han-brown/

Those comments help to explain the self-absorption

By Kevin on Feb 27, 2013


Smartest thing I've ever read on this site. Now put Ruf in LF, package Revere and Brown to Chicago for Soriano, and all of a sudden we have the most powerful outfield in the division. Ruf can hit 32 HR, Soriano can hit 40, and Young at least 25. The 09 powerhouse offense will be back, and our pitching is still the best. Maybe package Biddle and Pettibone to San Diego for Headley because MYoung is only here for 1 year. Then trade Mayberry, Inciarte, and Kratz to San Fran for Posey? We'd be a dynasty.

Michael Baumann is a South Jersey native whose baseball writing is characterized by a strong reliance on both empirical analysis and elaborate, strained ongoing historical and cultural metaphors. As an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina, he covered soccer and football The Daily Gamecock. He’s written about the Phillies since 2009, first for The Phrontiersman, then for two years at Phillies Nation, where, among other things, he wrote the Dr. Strangeglove series. He also writes about the Philadelphia 76ers at Liberty Ballers.

td11 wrote:like, this guy is presumably trying to join in on the snarky/sarcastic back-patting, but who wouldn't make that headley or posey trade?

Soren wrote:

phdave wrote:

The Phillies, under Ruben Amaro, are like Czarist Russia, a vast empire of tremendous power and blessed with incredible resources that’s so in love with the fashions and practices of 50 years prior that that power and those resources were, and will be, squandered in a massive blaze and at the cost of unimaginable human suffering. And the next people to take over will be a marginal improvement intellectually but little better practically. And we’ll spend the next 10 years in undignified retreat, watching our crops and oil fields burn because our leaders are too obsessed with superstitions and customs that the rest of the world laughed out of the culture as obsolete before we were even born

this is truely awe inspiring. I choose to believe that he wrote a script that opens up 25 random wiki pages at a time then chooses one to be the subplot in his inane articles.

td11 wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

Barry Jive wrote:anybody know if this is a reference to something? or is it just rote sarcasm

http://crashburnalley.com/2013/02/27/ph ... han-brown/

Those comments help to explain the self-absorption

By Kevin on Feb 27, 2013


Smartest thing I've ever read on this site. Now put Ruf in LF, package Revere and Brown to Chicago for Soriano, and all of a sudden we have the most powerful outfield in the division. Ruf can hit 32 HR, Soriano can hit 40, and Young at least 25. The 09 powerhouse offense will be back, and our pitching is still the best. Maybe package Biddle and Pettibone to San Diego for Headley because MYoung is only here for 1 year. Then trade Mayberry, Inciarte, and Kratz to San Fran for Posey? We'd be a dynasty.

like, this guy is presumably trying to join in on the snarky/sarcastic back-patting, but who wouldn't make that headley or posey trade?

Barry Jive wrote:anybody know if this is a reference to something? or is it just rote sarcasm

http://crashburnalley.com/2013/02/27/ph ... han-brown/

Giancarlo Baumann ‏@MJ_Baumann
Though if you think one game in 2011 has anything whatsoever to do with 2013, I'm not sure *YOU* know what relevant means.

Giancarlo Baumann ‏@MJ_Baumann
I will not feed the trolls. I will not feed the trolls. I will not feed the trolls. I will not feed the trolls. I will not feed the trolls.

Giancarlo Baumann ‏@MJ_Baumann
I tried to make this as long as a real newspaper column but blood started pouring from my eye sockets.

Giancarlo Baumann ‏@MJ_Baumann
I wrote that 1) to see if I could and 2) for people who won't realize it's really mean-spirited satire.

You can rest easy in the knowledge that the Phillies are determined to put anyone at all in right field over Domonic Brown. At this point, I’m convinced that he could step into the batter’s box, point his bat at the pitcher and yell “They still want an American to go, Doctor. You wanna take a ride?” then hit the first pitch he sees 500 feet, and the Phillies would still have him start the season in AAA or in a platoon.

I believe that when the end of the world comes, we, as a society, will be made to answer for our sins, and that chief among them will be the way the Phillies have developed, or neglected to develop, Domonic Brown.

Meanwhile, the Phillies, like a first-class passenger on the Titanic, will amble along in the fog of blissful ignorance, thinking that notoriety and money will save them. God help us all.