Erikkk - Blessing or Curse (4)

Q.  Is SSI too biased in Bedard's favor?

A.  I'm biased by (1) my love for pitchers who are better than Jarrod Washburn, by (2) my love for players you can win because of rather than with, and (3) by my severe, irrational love for Bedard's personality.

"Gamers" with silent assassin stares have always been pyschedelic for me.  Michael Samuelle, Batman, Steve Carlton and Erik Bedard will always have my vote.

Speaking of which, here is a rockin' Lookout Landing post from July 2010, "An Argument for a Perpetually Progressing Erik Bedard Being More of a Blessing than a Burden."  I don't know whether Sully should be a standup comedian or a major league GM, but here are a few of my favorite lines:

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An Argument for a Perpetually Progressing Erik Bedard Being More of a Blessing than a Burden

A charismatically wordy "Title," of course, and it hits exactly the right self-satirical tone for what's to follow.

Academics are famous for long, self-important titles to their papers, of course, and Jeff's promise of a studious "argument" tees the ball up.  Real high.

Nigel Tomm wrote a book with a 670-word title.

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That, though it's cool when Erik Bedard is a Mariner, he's more of a gift when he's almost a Mariner.

At one point, we heard that Kobe Bryant was almost a Sonic. 

Anticipation is better than realization.  Dustin Ackley is almost a Mariner.  Dr. D is almost a Sullivan-level blogger.  The GOP was almost the Senate.  You get it...  "Almost a Mariner." 

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Though the correlation coefficient isn't perfect, fans will, by and large, prefer a good player to a bad one.

::big grin::

This one double-sticks the landing because in Seattle, fans didn't, by and large, prefer this player.  And beat writers?

In the Mariners' clubhouse, under Hargrove, neither was the coefficient perfect.  The #1 player in that clubhouse was #25 on the popularity list; not sure what that does to a =CORR result.

The correlation coefficient isn't, um, "perfect."  

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It's an endearing quality in a way - one that provokes far more sympathy than getting out on a pitch in the dirt. Poor Erik. He doesn't deserve to be so fragile.

Poor Erik :- )

I thoroughly enjoy the intersection of a "poor Erik" characterization with --- > the batter's-box view of a pitch that rakes across the strike zone as if a sniper in section 323 were taking out the batter's rear shoe.

Vlad fires the bat two feet over the top of another Bedard hook and slinks back to the dugout mortified.  Erik painfully shrugs the weight of the shirt off his left shoulder.  Poor Erik, thinks Scioscia.

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Part 5

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