We Have A Graphs Contest Winner

by Sky Kalkman on Feb 19, 2009 12:51 PM EST

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:

Tweet Comment 15 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

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…..

www.redsminorleagues.com
www.MinorLeagueNotebook.com

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

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

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

Try not to clog the bases next time.

And That Happened: Sports with a Hint of Sarcasm

by philkid3 on Feb 19, 2009 2:24 PM EST reply actions

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

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.

—————

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