Comments on: Game 27, Mariners at Indians

By: tranebc

tranebc — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:21:44 +0000

A pretty funny article about scrappy white baseball players

I’d like to submit the idea that scrappy, white people (or SWP as I will refer to it now) is actually a baseball statistic that can help us define a player’s style and justify his other statistics.

Here’s how you can calculate a player’s SWP rating … (All categories are based on a 1-10 ranking)

Slow, scrappy, white baseball professionals: the great SWP

Now if only he put “professional hitter” as a category I think we’d be all set.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:33:39 +0000

FWIW, I think J Rollins is scrappy.

F. Vina was, too.

By: ocelot

ocelot — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:39:17 +0000

Just got back from the game (by the way, it was REALLY cold–the ladies in our group packed it in after 5)
I was the only M’s fan at least in my section, if not the stadium–it was REALLY fun getting up and hollering on the Beltre HR in the 9th…in a dead-silent park. In case the camera happened to pan over the upper deck right behind home plate, I was the lone M’s fan wearing a Mariners hat and black jacket. Very fun way to win, but I’ll be honest–after the home run, even I wanted to rack up some quick outs just so I could get out of a very cold ballpark. Good win–the one really funny part was bad mouthing Brad to my Cleveland friends–then having him go 3 for 3.

By: Breadbaker

Breadbaker — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:45:13 +0000

They don’t speak much Spanish, but a lot of Papiamento, which is the patois to which Becky refers. Pretty much everyone speaks English, though.

By: arbeck

arbeck — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:44:36 +0000

beckya57,

I know that… but I’m not sure exactly how they pronounce things in their Spanish. So I wouldn’t automatically assume how to pronounce Wlad’s name.

By: beckya57

beckya57 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:40:21 +0000

Arbeck–they do speak Spanish also in the Netherlands Antilles. Along with English and a local patois that’s sort of descended from Dutch. Very interesting place.

By: naviomelo

naviomelo — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:33:25 +0000

Nice win. We finally had a nice inning in the 9th that made up for all those wasted opportunities earlier in the game. It would have been terrible to waste another good start like Silva had.

By: arbeck

arbeck — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:29:30 +0000

But since he is from the Netherlands Antilles, I’m not sure the Anglicized way is wrong.

By: BringUpBalentien

BringUpBalentien — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:26:11 +0000

Am I wrong to pronounce Balentien “bah-LEN-tee-en”? It seems like that would be the proper pronunciation based on the Spanish language. “Bal-en-teen” seems like the bastardized, Anglicized way to say it.

That is right, bah-LEN-tee-en is correct in Spanish and “Bal-en-teen seems like the bastardized, Anglicized way to say it.”
AMEN.

By: Evan R.

Evan R. — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:22:40 +0000

I asked this earlier but didn’t get any takers: