August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:21 AM) http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?a...;t=1000&a=n Good Benchmark Bang Dock Homer Grab Mocked Hon Bank Chrome God Charged Knob Om Charmed Knob Go Mach Broken God Macho Kerb Dong Danker Comb Hog Dogma Born Heck Dang Bock Homer Grand Comb Hoke Dank Comber Hog Back Dong Her Om That could be the new catch phrase for a Beckham homer. You can just hear Hawk: "That ball hit deep...stretch, stretch! You can put it on the board, YES! Another Macho Kerb Dong by Gordon!"
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 08:10 AM) lol... "I have only seen it on one blog" Did he really say that?
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 10:21 AM) http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?a...;t=1000&a=n Good Benchmark Bang Dock Homer Grab Mocked Hon Bank Chrome God Charged Knob Om Charmed Knob Go Mach Broken God Macho Kerb Dong Danker Comb Hog Dogma Born Heck Dang Bock Homer Grand Comb Hoke Dank Comber Hog Back Dong Her Om There are more: Magk Boner Chod Back Door Mengh (pronounced "Mench") Mach K Boner God
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (dasox24 @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 10:27 AM) I just added "Beckham" to my list of T9 words, lol... Is it bad that I've texted about him enough to have to do that? I messaged my wife last night to say that I thought he was probably the best position player on the team. She asked if I was drunk.
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 11:25 AM) There are more: Magk Boner Chod Mach K Boner God Proceed to "Ahem" thread.
August 5, 200916 yr ...check out Jeff Francouer's rookie stats and remember how people were so ga-ga over him too... .300/.336/.549/.885 70 GP, 272 AB, 14 HR, 20 2B, 1 3B, 45 RBI, 11BB it would seem like the lack of walks and reliance on homers made this predictable, but Francoeur was hitting .300 over 70 games with a ton of doubles...doesn't that sound familiar? His career line is currently a disappointing .266/.308/.424/.732 and the power numbers have been relatively down since 06 - just 82 career homers. So what happened to Jeff Francouer? Couldn't the same thing happen to Beckham?
August 5, 200916 yr Perhaps, but in AA he didnt get it done like Beckham did Also as a late first rounder he wasnt thought of as highly starting out.
August 5, 200916 yr Beckham is not going to go bad because Jeff Francouer. I hate this line of thinking in sports, but especially in baseball.
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 01:33 PM) Beckham is not going to go bad because Jeff Francouer. I hate this line of thinking in sports, but especially in baseball. The point was that the sample size was small enough where even a seemingly great player as a rookie can go south to some degree unexpectedly, not that Gordon Beckham was specifically going to be Jeff Francouer.
August 5, 200916 yr Francoeur's OPS numbers in the minors before being called up: .809, .539, .852, .770. Beckham never dropped below .863 OPS at any level. It looks more like you are comparing Francoeur's ceiling to Beckham's norm.
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 01:43 PM) wow, tough crowd delete thread, I guess? Just in case Gordon gets wind of this thread I would make sure to lock all of your doors and windows.
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 01:43 PM) wow, tough crowd delete thread, I guess? You were like the police that crashed an awesome party. That had beer and girls.
August 5, 200916 yr Gordon is very patient at the plate and is very good hitting to the opposite field, when a player this young can do that, he probably wont bust.
August 5, 200916 yr QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Aug 5, 2009 -> 01:23 PM) ...check out Jeff Francouer's rookie stats and remember how people were so ga-ga over him too... .300/.336/.549/.885 70 GP, 272 AB, 14 HR, 20 2B, 1 3B, 45 RBI, 11BB it would seem like the lack of walks and reliance on homers made this predictable, but Francoeur was hitting .300 over 70 games with a ton of doubles...doesn't that sound familiar? His career line is currently a disappointing .266/.308/.424/.732 and the power numbers have been relatively down since 06 - just 82 career homers. So what happened to Jeff Francouer? Couldn't the same thing happen to Beckham? You've nicely overlooked the K ratio. Beckham as a rookie: 6.46 AB/K Francoeur as a rookie: 4.43 AB/K Beckham has always been and will always be a much better contact hitter. Getz is actually a better comparison to Beckham than Francouer is, and Getz is still a really bad comparison. IMO Beckham will be a lot more like Chase Utley.
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