Valdespin City

[Edgy MD]

This guy is the beautiful girlfriend who's absolutely crazy, isn't he? He's gonna make you sorry if you let him go (like Dykstra), and he's gonna make you sorry if you keep him (like Timo). He's gonna be too volatile to play infield (like Mora), but too inexperienced and unrefined to play outfield (like Samuel), leaving the latter the best option, but it'll suck a large chunk of the offensive value from him.

So what do you do? I guess you can continue supersub him, playing him several times a week, but never giving him a particular assignment, giving him 425 PA and motivation enough to keep doing fantastic things like last night. After a year and a half of that, it'll come to a head, but either by then he'll have grown up a bit or the team will have milked enough production out of him to make a hard decision easier.

I suspect that, if he becomes a starter --- and everything except his maturity level seems to suggest he should --- "Jordany being Jordany" will quickly become a staple of game reports.

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[Vic Sage]

and don't forget the fact that he's utterly incomprehensible in post-game interviews. That has a sort of "Chico Esquella" charm that i would miss if he were gone.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

One of the greatest acts of heroism by an non-Australian on ANZAC Day. If i had any photoshop skills I'd 'shop this Diggers hat onto him.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy, when you posted pictures of a Met player's selfies from the bathroom some time back, that was Valdespin, correct?

[Edgy MD]

While I've never heard the term "selfies," I approve.

Yeah, I think that was him.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: While I've never heard the term "selfies," I approve. Yeah, I think that was him.

I'm hip to the kids' lingo, dawg.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: While I've never heard the term "selfies," I approve. Yeah, I think that was him.

I've only started hearing it recently. new term? Manifestation of most phones having front facing cameras now maybe?

[Guest themetfairy]

I've seen the term selfies for a couple of years. Used it myself at times.

[Lefty Specialist]

Is he really standing there in front of a collage of pictures of....himself in action?

You get the feeling if you play him too much he'll suck and if you play him too little he'll suck. If he ever catches fire and starts posting real numbers, you'll need Vaseline to get his head through the clubhouse door.

'Manny being Manny' only worked because he produced big-time. If you pull that crap without having the stats to back you up, you're just a jerk.

It's like the Bull Durham line about fungus on your shower sandals:

Crash Davis: Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you're a slob.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He seems like he has more pairs of two-tone footwear in his closet than horizontal surfaces on which he can eat a meal or sign a document.

I'm sticking with my Tweeted-dick-photos call from the predictions thread.

[Edgy MD]

Lefty Specialist wrote: 'Manny being Manny' only worked because he produced big-time. If you pull that crap without having the stats to back you up, you're just a jerk.

I'm certainly not suggesting his situation with the team is going to "work."

[Frayed Knot]

Why do I think that FMan will have a somewhat different definition of "selfie"?

[ashie62]

I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt.

His interview was incomprehensively awesome and I haven't seen his gonads and hope not to...

[Ceetar]

Don't know who did the gif, but it's from Ted Berg's post about Jordany.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yikes!

[Lefty Specialist]

Wow, that looked more like a mugging than a celebration.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Buck. Now OBPing at 270 and serving creamy justice in your face.

[Farmer Ted]

Buck saying "Fuck you Ricky Martin-lovin hot shot." POW POW!

[Frayed Knot]

Andy Martino in the Snooze writes about Valdy and his "troubles" over time. The main theme is: some improvement. �He still has a ways to go", says one un-named veteran teammate, "but he is getting better.�

[Fman99]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: serving creamy justice in your face.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Cocky/smart-and-dumb enough to shrug off the stuff the flameballers and Halladays toss at him, and a living middle-finger to the We Play The Right Way-er crowd... he's kind of the perfect guy to send against the Phils, isn't he?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes.

[Edgy MD]

I like analyzing problem players through the lens of Michael J. Fox vehicle-inspired threads. Takes the edge off.

Next up: "Familia Ties"

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Back to the Duda, part III

[Edgy MD]

Light of Davis.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

The Frighteners

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: Don't know who did the gif, but it's from Ted Berg's post about Jordany.

....steroids. Na, I kid. But man, that was a smack in the face alright. It would have been better if Buck smiled as he looked back. But he's all business.

[Frayed Knot]

The thing is, if the guys on the current team really hated him they wouldn't have bothered with the pie.
Nobody who's not at least partially one of the guys gets invited to play in their reindeer games.

[Edgy MD]

No doubt a team can celebrate a player's success on behalf of his team and treat him like a dude on one hand while still keeping a hazing regime in place on the other. Not saying what's going on --- maybe nothing is --- but I expect players can be as fickle with their affections and appreciations as fans are.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Can you imagine the sort of throbbing, tight-$100-tee-shirt-buying erection he'll become if he has, say, ONE All-Star-worthy first half, or even a red-hot, PotM-type month?

It's kind of a terrifying-slash-biblically-awesome prospect, like that of a tornado in your backyard.