The Continuing Story of Brian Wilson, Esq.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wooly Willy playoff beard?

Postgame interviews ranging from candid to performative?

"Machine?"

Oh, it doesn't end with the championship, as evidenced by a recent talk show appearance, for he's the media gift that keeps on giving. This one's rated "arr."

[metirish]

Fucks sake , he's nuts and great.......building his second career which will feature a lot of TV.

[DocTee]

His first foray into TV was a reality show that trailed him for a few months...Life of Brian...it was insipid.

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Wooly Willy playoff beard? Postgame interviews ranging from candid to performative? "Machine?" Oh, it doesn't end with the championship, as evidenced by a recent talk show appearance, for he's the media gift that keeps on giving. This one's rated "arr."

From your link, Wilson came off as a stupid jackass to me. His humor was humorless and contrived. He should make millions of $$ more.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, he's most definitely being a jackass.

But it's a crappy talk show. I'll take that 10 times out of 10 over "one game at a time," y'know?

[dgwphotography]

He's an ass whose career will blow up in his face this year...

[G-Fafif]

Eat your heart out, Ricky Vaughn.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

dgwphotography wrote: He's an ass whose career will blow up in his face this year...

Performance-wise? You think? How so?


(And I don't think that's heart that Vaughn's eating, Greg.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

I can't speak for him, but I assume it is some combination of

[*:2vq3vjrh]Wisdom born of experience:

[*:2vq3vjrh]results for closers tend to fluctuate,[/*:m:2vq3vjrh]
[*:2vq3vjrh]power pitchers are one injury away from uselessness, and [/*:m:2vq3vjrh]
[*:2vq3vjrh]he's already one Tommy John surgery into his career; plus[/*:m:2vq3vjrh][/list:o:2vq3vjrh][/*:m:2vq3vjrh]
[*:2vq3vjrh]Wisdom born from a sense of moral drama:

[*:2vq3vjrh]Glory is fleeting, and[/*:m:2vq3vjrh]
[*:2vq3vjrh]Pride cometh before a fall.[/*:m:2vq3vjrh][/list:o:2vq3vjrh][/*:m:2vq3vjrh][/list:o:2vq3vjrh]

Plus there's probably a touch of rooting interest there. Let's go Mets!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Baseball is a very humbling game.

[metirish]

Wilson would never make in in NY with that act.

[RealityChuck]

I'm picking up good vibrations from him.

[dgwphotography]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: dgwphotography wrote: He's an ass whose career will blow up in his face this year... Performance-wise? You think? How so? (And I don't think that's heart that Vaughn's eating, Greg.)

Baseball history has been littered with flash in the pans who became too enamored with their off field persona

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeesh. He dresses up like a sea captain and does shtick for interviews. He's not making cameos on Gossip Girl, doing a reality show, or creating a Ryan Braun douchewear line.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know. My math says

(regularly making a public show of demonstating one's Christian religiosity)
[u:xle67qxb]+ (publickly joking about indulging in sexual tourism in Thailand) [/u:xle67qxb]
= sort of begging for a comeuppance.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oh, and... (drumroll)...

DOUCHEWARE!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I repeat, "not creating a... douchewear line."

We'll see.

[G-Fafif]

He may be an ass, but he's an ass at the top of his profession at the moment, closing out three consecutive postseason series and amassing 127 saves over the past three seasons. More than a Kerfeld/Rocker, neither of whom ever saved the truly enormous games that this guy has.

It must be the dead of night in the dead of winter. I'm feeling compelled to defend Brian Wilson.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He's good, and getting better. The walk rates have gone steadily downward and the strikeout rates steadily upward. He doesn't give up many HRs at all-- 0.51/9 IP for his career so far, with three of the last four years showing less than 0.4/9 (his one "bad" year came with a weird, solitary spike in HR rate). So, yeah, the sub-2 ERA isn't fielding-dependent at all, really; he'd do almost as well playing with 1 OF, 1 IF, and a catcher.

This guy isn't Kerfield, or Rocker. He's Harland Williams with a live fastball.