Re: 2nd Worst Offensive Player in NL in 2005?

McDuck <wallymcduckDELETEME@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:08:59 GMT, mario <mario5491@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> quacked:

[...]

>>
>>But it DOES happen:
>> G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVE OBP SLG TB
>>129 411 81 135 23 2 26 85 98 49 .328 .458 .584 240
>>103 272 32 69 15 0 10 43 52 27 .254 .372 .419 114
>>113 310 56 98 15 0 29 72 75 41 .316 .451 .645 200

[...]

> Is this a reply to me? It does not seem even remotely responsive to
> anything I wrote. Certainly nothing I wrote was an "absolute" or close
> to an absolute, or reasonably interpreted as an absolute. Do you think
> the word "typically" is an absolute? I thought you were smarter than
> that. Oh, well.
>
> Are you just making up some numbers, or do they refer to some player?
> Why not name him if you have some point to make?

Maybe he expected Sox fans to recognise the player in question.

> Was the player injured? Was the first year his first year in MLB ---
> second year slumps are famous, as you may know.

No, not his first.

> Did he, like Lowell, have a long track record of good play before his
> fall?

Well he had a long track record of good play, but not especially like
Mike Lowell.

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