Archive for category Miscellaneous Rants
Come See the Kid
Posted by Bay Slugga in Miscellaneous Rants, Site News on March 3rd, 2010
Did anyone happen to pick up MLB The Show 2010 for PS3 yesterday? Well I did, and it is fucking sweet. I was up until 3am owning noobs online last night, and I’m itching to get done with work/class to continue the slaughtering.
If you think you have what it takes then feel free to challenge me to a game. I play under the name “ectomobile” (Ghostbusters is fucking sweet too), and I’m waiting to layeth the smacketh down on you.
A few things I should make clear before we play:
1. I will be playing as the Phillies, and you will not.
2. Roy Halladay will be pitching a CG shutout to the tune of 15 strikeouts and 75 pitches.
3. If you beat me I’ll ban your IP from 4DR, and blame all the Phillies 2010 problems on you.
That's actually me, Bay Slugga
Dobbs: when I play like shit, play me more
Posted by Dickie Assburn in Ballplayer Lifestyle, Miscellaneous Rants on March 3rd, 2010
Before I pretend that anything Greg Dobbs says matters: why does this show up when you google 'greg dobbs'? hahaha
No – there are no typos in the subject. What I wrote is what I meant. After doing a lot of less important shit, like mailing out my resume to a bunch of places hoping to get an internship for this summer, I looked up the Phillies news for the day… only to see Greg Dobbs bitching about his playing time. What’s worse is that the guy reporting on it, Matt Gelb, didn’t call his bluff and state in his article that Greg Dobbs has lost his fucking mind. Here are the excerpts of Gelb’s articles that just did not make ANY sense to me…
The hardest part, he said, was accepting the diminished role. With Ryan Howard and Pedro Feliz entrenched in their starting spots, plus little playing time to be had in the corner outfield positions, there just wasn’t room for Dobbs – and he couldn’t duplicate his success.
Ideally, Dobbs said, he needs at least 200 at-bats to avoid a season like 2009.
See — that right there is exactly why I would never want to be a real sports journalist. It would mean I’d have to put up with hearing ludicrous shit like that coming out of the mouth of the resident pinch hitter.
What is a pinch hitter, anyway? Oh yeah — it’s a guy that sits on his ass pretty much everyday and then gets off of it to swing a fucking bat in the 7th inning when the pitcher starts sucking too bad/gets tired. People say DHs are lazy as shit, but pinch hitters? Wow — that’s a-whole-nother level of ‘not moving.’
Just in case you wanted to see a direct quote, here it is, straight from the ass’ soul-patch:
“It’s tough to put up good numbers if you’re not getting at-bats,” said Dobbs, 31. “It just is. And not that it’s an excuse. It’s just the way it is.”
"I think I'm going to strike out here... Only because I don't see why Ryan Howard gets to bat most of the time instead of me."
Yeah — that’s not an excuse at all… except that it is. You’re clearly here to do nothing but pinch hit, and you fucking sucked at it. In fact, as the article states, he “hit .167 as a pinch-hitter,” and his at-bats “went from 226 to 154.” What am I missing here? He committed an epic fail at trying to reach the Mendoza line as a pinch hitter, and still managed to amass 154 at-bats because our only options were an old man with a beer belly and a little fuzzy guy that defined the word “irony” when he somehow: a) sucked, and b) made a triple-play. Now he wants more at-bats when we finally figured out that we need some resemblance of a bench to succeed?! Get the fuck out of here…
Anymore nonsense like this, and Dobbs will be back to hanging out with losers again
Oh, and I’m filing this under “Miscellaneous Rants” because Greg Dobbs is irrelevant… He does not deserve “Phillies Rant” status, unless he takes this utter and complete bullshit of an attitude onto the baseball field. Boo-ya, bitch! Take that!
What To Expect From Roy
Posted by Even Stevens in Miscellaneous Rants, Phillies Rants, Trades on February 28th, 2010
Hey everyone! I hope you all had as good of an offseason as I did Roy Halladay did, since the fucking guy has been guaranteed 60 million dollars over the next three years to play for a World Series contender. He should be really happy about that. I’ll tell ya what – I’m even happier.
And he better be fucking great, too, because I’ve heard enough of the “but we could have kept Cliff Lee, too” talk to last me a lifetime. I would have been on board with that decision, but it is what it is, so we’ve got to get over it. Roy Halladay is here now, and Cliff Lee is just going to “have to make the best of it in Seattle.” He said it – not me. Sound bitter?
If Roy Halladay sucks even a little bit, the talk about Cliff Lee is going to annoy the shit out of me. If the Phillies are pretty good with Roy but not the NL’s dominant team in the first half of the season, the talk about Cliff Lee is also going to annoy the shit out of me. Roy Halladay needs to be great, and the Phillies need to follow suit. Now let’s talk expectations.
Often times, when a big player moves to a new team and everybody gets excited, the expectations for said player are through the roof. I’m hearing people act like it’s a given that Roy Halladay will win 20 games and have a sub-3.00 ERA. Phillies fans need to back down a little bit and give him some time to settle in before making such demands of the talented pitcher. He’ll be good for us, but we all need to take a step back and let him fall into a groove. If he can put 15-16 wins on the board and give you somewhere around a 3.5 ERA, that can’t be looked at as anything other than a greatly successful season.
I’m kidding of course. This fucking guy better sit people down more often than diarrhea. Roy Halladay has been setting the tone since pitchers and catchers reported, and his work ethic is a huge part of the reason he’s been so successful through his career. I expect that to continue, and I expect it to show. Anything less than 20 wins and I will be part of the charade of assclowns writing hate-mail to Ruben Amaro about the fuck-up of 2009. If we’re not seeing Halladay give us the 3.0 ERA that every other one of our starting pitchers is incapable of producing, I’m unhappy.
There’s a reason why people get paid at the top of their profession – in this case, $20 million a year. Ryan Howard gets paid the big bucks to hit the long ball and drive in big runs. Roy Halladay is being compensated similarly so that he can throw his heavy sinker and test our ground crew’s ability to eliminate the bad hops for Jimmy and Chase.
I’d like to say that in about 4 weeks, we’ll all watch and evaluate him together – but you and I both know that we’re going to hang on his every pitch against the Yankees in the first MLB Spring Training competition of the year. It might be insignificant to some, but 4DaysRest exists for the rest of us idiots.
Why MLB should never be the NBA
Posted by Dickie Assburn in Miscellaneous Rants on February 18th, 2010
I’m really not sure how many of you happen to be NBA fans, but I happen to have had an addiction to the sport of basketball since I can remember. I’m not going to talk about basketball at any great length here, and what’s going to be talked about here should be easy to follow.
Today, there was a three-team trade involving the Rockets, Knicks, and the Kings. As the trade deadline loomed over the No Benjamins Association (they’re broke in a bad, bad way), many teams made deals trying to dump salary because they have NO MONEY. A guy by the name of Carl Landry, a young, up and coming power forward, was dealt from the Rockets to the Kings. Normally, if a guy is averaging about 16 and 6 and shooting great from the field, you’d want the guy on your team. And if the guy’s 26-years-old? Throw it in the baggg
Here’s a screenshot of what some guy commenting the ESPN article for the story said about it:
I don’t even know what to say. Yikes. Could you imagine if, say, when the Phillies traded for Joe Blanton, you saw a comment that said:
“Hey it’s carlo checking in from oaktown… yea fatboy blanton was good but he just got shanked so he prob. feels safer in philly. sucks to lose him but we’re getting back a guy that only has holes located on his ears, nose, mouth, asshole, and penis. Seems a bad stroke to me.”
Thank God for baseball, right?
Baseball’s stupid free agent system
Posted by Dickie Assburn in Free Agency, Miscellaneous Rants on November 11th, 2009
http://i.usatoday.net/sports/baseball/Elias-rankings.pdf
The above displays a list stemming from a system that is absurdly still running in Major League Baseball today. Seriously – what’s up with the type A/type B/untyped free agent classifications?
First off: the idea is so fucking stupid and subjective. I have no idea how it works, and neither does anyone else. If you honestly think that this is a good idea, you need to go get your brain checked. It’s very possible that you should be put down DC-sniper style.
Explain some of these to me, if you would…
Why is Jim Thome neither type A or B? He drove in an average of 90-something runs over the past 4 years, and whenever he plays the majority of the season, he’s usually good for 35+ home runs. I know I implied that he was a faggot during the playoffs, but I really don’t have an issue with the guy (I thought it’d piss some people off… and it did.)
Garret Anderson played more games than Thome last year, and over the past few years, averaged about 10 less RBIs per year. He is a type B free agent.
Jermaine Dye averaged 85 RBIs over the past few years and is a type A free agent.
These guys are either corner-outfield/1st-basemen, aka the top 2-3 positions where you stick guys that can’t play the field. They all have similar batting averages, and they’re all old. None of them steal bases.
Why is Jermaine Dye a type A free agent (which requires a team to surrender a first round pick)? If we’re to accept that he’s type A, then why are the others in a completely lesser category with similar/better bats attached to their services?
It seriously makes no sense. The AL-only DH rule and the Elias rankings make baseball seem like a joke.
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And now for something that will make you love Scott Eyre even more:
Eyre, on the other hand, didn’t know what to make of next season. He choked back tears during the length of his interview, saying that he did all he could to take in everything in what could be not only his last World Series but his last time on the mound.
“It’s tough,” he said. “I thought I was done after my first two outs. I was kind of looking up at my family in the stands, trying to find them, and [pitching coach Rich] Dubee said, ‘You’re going back out.’ I was glad I got to go back out. I took it all in. I made sure I said something to each of my infielders and Charlie [Manuiel].
“It’s tough. It’s an emotional thing, being up in the air right now. My kids are ready for me to be home, so it’s hard to stand here and not let the water works go right now.”
Eyre said that even though his kids are ready for him to be a full-time dad instead of a full-time reliever, it will be hard to leave, because of his teammates. He turned in a gutty performance in the postseason, pitching with lose bone chips in his pitching elbow.
“This is such a fun group of guys,” he said. “That’s the hardest part. If I was around a group of jerks, I’d just go home.”
Eyre said that he started to get emotional when he saw Mariano Rivera on the mound in the ninth inning, knowing that the end could be near. He said that he would “see what happens” this offseason, weighing his options with his family.
“I guess it’s up to Ruben,” Eyre said of general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. “We’ll see if they still want me around. I can promise you I won’t play anywhere else. I’ll either wear a ‘P’ on my head or nowhere else.” – philly.com
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Whores and the Comments Section
Posted by WTT in Enemies, General Thoughts, Miscellaneous Rants, Playoffs and World Series on November 5th, 2009
I think it’s pretty awesome that our randomly generated ads are selling Yankees World Series Champion gear at the bottom of the page. We are a bunch of whores.
And one other passing thought this morning as I browse the sports pages on the Internet this morning…
What the Hell is wrong with people?
Okay. We are about to win the World Series. Just three more outs. Two. One. We did it! Yes! Now what do I do? Party all night? Nah. I think I’ll visit Phillies websites and ESPN.com and curse off every writer that doubted my team along the way. Yeah. That’s fucking right. That’s exactly what I’m going to do. I’ll show them.
Nobody disrespects my team. Nobody.
I submit for your viewing pleasure a Yankees fan named Chris, who has spent an unhealthy amount of time at this site lately. Chris had this to say almost immediately following the completion of last night’s game:
DO YOU LIKE PEDRO IN THIS MATCH-UP? GET THE FUCK OUT, PHILLY SHITS. YOU DIRTY, NO-CLASS, SHIT-TALKERS CAN’T BACK UP ANYTHING.
EAT OUR SHIT, PEASANTS!!!! NUMBER 27 TO NEW YORK!!
Look,each fan is entitled to enjoy their teams victory anyway they see fit. Personally, I wouldn’t have been in front of a computer if my team was in a Game 6 clincher. I would have been at the game, or at a bar. I guess some like to curse off sportswriters (even though they do not read them) at national websites in the comments section. I prefer titties and beer, but that’s just me.
Still, I want to send out a special thank you to fans like Chris. Thank you for visiting 4daysrest.com during some of the best moments of your life. That’s gotta feel good. Soak in 27 there, champ.
And trust me, Yanks fans aren’t the only ones guilty of this. Fans of all teams do this, but it’s pathetic nonetheless.