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We Have A Graphs Contest Winner

Congratulations to VictorW, who created the winning entry for our graphs contest.  He'll receive a copy of The Hardball Times 2009 Annual, chocked full of forty articles from excellent authors (including Rob Neyer, Joe Posnanski, John Dewan to name just a few.)  His winning flowchart walks us through scary territory -- the mind of Dusty Baker:

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Ouch

This hurts just as bad as Dusty saying Brandon Phillips is the cleanup hitter again this year with his .294/.394 career OBP/SLG against RHP…..

by dougdirt on Feb 19, 2009 1:11 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Congrats, VictorW

As you know, I’m a fan

Bringing you more-or-less replacement level analysis and commentary since sometime in 2008.

by Matt Klaassen on Feb 19, 2009 1:15 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

LOL

I got a lot of looks when I was reading this and laughing in the library today

by yankee13man on Feb 19, 2009 2:21 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Hooray!

I’d like to thank Dusty Baker for making this all possible and writing all the jokes himself.

"OBP is not a production number, and should not be used as something he achieved."

by VictorW on Feb 19, 2009 2:41 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

One person isn't a fan of yours...
actually… nothing personal against you goredsnjh…

but that is idiotic …. it’s not even funny – and yes, I’m familiar with the dusty quote about “clogging the bases”…

it’s stupid…. if that was the winner … i can only imagine what a mess of garbage must have been submitted to that contest.

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I guess it speaks some of the baseball geek/blog minds.. someone used visio or some visual drawing tool to make fun of dusty baker… what could be better? bust out the monty python and simpsons jokes and we’ll have a party………

http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages&webtag=ml-reds&tid=52811

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Feb 19, 2009 9:02 PM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Very nice

I think a cross posting to a Cubs blog is also in order (because, as you may remember, in Dusty they Trustied).

by mitchiapet on Feb 19, 2009 5:52 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

shut up

we Reds fans are suffering now! while those scoundrel Cubs get the last man to win a World Series in the fair Queen City…

My millions are unconventional!

by Charlie Scrabbles on Feb 19, 2009 6:53 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I am sure that Dusty will be

asking you to take this down under the DMCA….
What blatant theft of intellectual property! Dusty is gonna snap!

Out with the Old and in with the Nucleus The Tortured Fan Base welcomes our new owner.

by Andre Fonseca on Feb 20, 2009 3:27 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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