Comments on: Manny Acta still likes sabermetrics and cool hats http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 19 May 2013 18:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Springtime Storylines: When will the Indians be finished with their rebuilding phase? | HardballTalk http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-121512 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:16:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-121512 [...] Acta’s choice of headwear, as always, will be the best in the league. [...]

]]> By: Berniece Swearengin http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26180 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:08:52 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26180 I saw this really good post today, found it on google. i think i may return some time.

]]> By: tsg http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26179 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:31:16 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26179 A gentleman really should remove his hat indoors.

]]> By: Motherscratcher http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26178 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:55:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26178 Jeez, you buy a hat like that I’ll bet you get a free bowl of soup.
I looks good on Acta, though.

]]> By: Grant http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26177 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:14:08 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26177 Well, then I still failed. Because I assumed that everyone would get my New York-centric reference. And I don’t really want to be that guy, since I suppose there are other people in this country.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26176 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:31:54 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26176 That photo of Manny Acta looks a lot like Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday, but a Bob Hoskins on cortisone shots. What for, I have no idea. Hands across the water, Manny!

]]> By: Prince http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26175 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:09:13 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26175 Diamond – We do know that Casey did it the wrong way. He had great talent to work with but had he made the “right” decisions that Manny was referring to, he would’ve won even more games. Plus, I don’t think Stengel would’ve performed any better with the 2007/8/9 Washington Nationals.

]]> By: DiamondDuq http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26174 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:59:09 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26174 “People think it’s the absolute right thing to bunt [in that situation],” Acta said, “but you need to check the stats. Back in the day, we didn’t have computers, we didn’t have Twitter, we didn’t have Facebook. They’ve come up with some things that make you open your eyes and not play like Casey Stengel used to play.”
Well you can keep your sabermetrics because Casey Stengel had a career .508 winning percentage with 8 World Series titles and yours, Manny Acta, is .385! How’s that for a statistic? Maybe you should start to “play like Casey Stengel used to play.”

]]> By: Phil http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26173 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:39:19 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26173 You didn’t fail. The only Williamsburg that came to mind was the colonial tourist trap in Virginia. [sigh]

]]> By: Grant http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26172 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:23:39 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26172 I was saying that Manny’s hat looks like what the hipsters are wearing. Not the hats you linked. Those hats are much better.

I have apparently failed at a tongue-in-cheek reference to the “coolness” (but actual dorkiness) of Brooklyn hipsters. Wouldn’t be the first time, I suspect.

]]> By: (Not That) Tom http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26171 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:18:36 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26171 Stop your messing around
Better think of your future
Time you straightened the Tribe out
Creating winning in town
Manny,
a message to you Manny

]]> By: YX http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26170 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:14:21 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26170 I confirm (through pictures) that it in fact is the same (or identical) hat.

]]> By: Phil http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26169 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:57:33 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26169 I was referring to the fedora found in the first pic under men’s collections (and in pics 10,11,26,and 28 too), which resemble the hats Delon wears in the cited film. The rest of those travesties are as bad as Manny’s hat in the photo. I presume it was to the rest of those chapeaus you were comparing to tourist headgear. But if you were referring to the same hats, felt fedoras in summer are definitely not cool, even if Bogie wore one in the deserts of Casablanca. However, cool summer headgear can be found here.

]]> By: Grant http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26168 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:41:41 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26168 I dunno, looks a lot like the fedoras I saw on half of Williamsburg over the summer.

]]> By: Phil http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26167 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:32:42 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26167 For God’s sake, that is not an “awesome” hat. That’s the kind of a hat your uncle from Lansing buys at the Stuckey’s on US 1 because he thinks he needs something to protect his balding pate while on the beach and he doesn’t care if he looks like a dork. That’s why he’s your uncle from Lansing. Cool hats are what Alian Delon wears in Le samourai and are found here.

]]> By: Danny http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/26/manny-acta-still-likes-sabermetrics-and-cool-hats/comment-page-1/#comment-26166 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:08:50 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=3566#comment-26166 It’s the same damn hat. The dude only has one hat.

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