The 2 things Derek Zoolander and Big Papi have in common…They both cant go left
Posted on 17. Apr, 2010 at 7:18 am by SKI in Baseball, Beer + Stuff
Back to back Big Papi posts, what is this the Boston Herald. No this is the rantings of our buddy STER, a long time Sox fan and semi contributor here at the Brewery. Who knows a few more posts that we like and we might call him up to the big leagues.
Another year of torment for me as my Red Sox flounder in mediocrity to begin the season, hampered by bad pitching and untimely and often absent offense. At the center of all this of course, leading the charge for the Sox with a good healthy handful of horrible at-bats, is Big Papi. After a few games, he has the good sense to lace reporters with an expletive-filled tirade when he asked about his 0-9 start against the Evil Empire, because anyone who knows anything about baseball is that it’s a long year and an 0′fer start doesn’t mean shit. Unless you follow your tirade with the pile of horseshit Big Papi is calling his effort at the plate over the last week. When Papi was truly mobbing, and the Sox were winning championships, he was hitting the ball to left center field fairly regularly. Teams still played the shift because if he hit a ball on the ground he’d most likely be pulling it, but he drove the ball over the left field wall with authority. Is your pride hurt big fella? Is that why you try to fucking yank every pitch you see to right field, no matter where it is in the strike zone? It is physically impossible to hit a pitch down and away over the right field fence, if your front shoulder is eating a goddamn hot dog in the stands behind you. He is so convinced he needs to hit a homerun every time that he has lost sight of what made him a truly great hitter. He was just hitting the ball hard, where it was pitched, and he’s such a huge monster, balls flew out of the yard like they were serving it up on a platter. Please find that man, Papi , somewhere inside you. So I can go back to liking you and scoffing at Yankee fans with more confidence than I currently do.
VS
bbryan
17. Apr, 2010
He is so convinced he needs to hit a homerun every time that he has lost sight of what made him a truly great hitter.
More like he lost his HGH connection.
/Big Pappi = Bret Boone
El Rey
18. Apr, 2010
David Wright=Bret Boone
THE STER
18. Apr, 2010
only someone with a pedestrian knowledge of baseball, or a terrible sense of humor, would make a comment like “he lost his hgh connection.” His swing mechanics are a shadow of what they were 3 years ago, and his insatiable need to pull the ball has erased the confidence he had in his understanding of the strike zone and created a pull-only guess hitter that cannot handle a fastball on the outer half of the plate and doesn’t allow the offspeed pitch to get deep enough into his stance to hit it hard to the opposite field.
bbryan
18. Apr, 2010
Only a blind homer would think that Pappi wasn’t a product of the steroid/hgh era. He was a .800 OPS guy in Minny, came to Boston, magically had .950-1.000 years, Manny leaves and he’s magically back to .800. Pappis is a fraud, one of many during this era. No amount of strike zone confidence or allowing the ball to travel on the outside pitch is going to change that fact.
El Rey
18. Apr, 2010
Yes Manny goes from hitter friendly Fenway, to cavernous and dank Dodger Stadium, and his numbers fall. Shocking…
bbryan
18. Apr, 2010
I was referring to Manny leaving and Pappi going back to being an .800 guy. Manny is legit, with or without drugs.
El Rey
18. Apr, 2010
Gotcha.
Yoda
18. Apr, 2010
Bib papi is also only 2 years younger than me, that might have somehting to do with his demise. Not to mention all the force (hgh) pills he took.