Comments on: Miguel Cabrera took a “fire Leyland” sign away from a fan

By: mickeylolich1968

mickeylolich1968 — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:13:19 +0000

When I lived in Detroit Billy Martin was managing.
Hmmmm…. what would Billy have done with this guy?

By: spellingcops

spellingcops — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:14:15 +0000

Is it possible that Craig has the thinnest skin in all of the online blog world?

By: kalinedrive

kalinedrive — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:46:36 +0000

Well that didn’t format. Maybe this will be more readable.

____________ Avg/ OBP/ SLG/ (PA vs. LHP) ______ Avg/ OBP/ SLG/ (PA vs. RHP)
Boesch (L)__ .238/.301/.344 (133) ___________ .284/.393/.678__ (348)
Young (R)___ .302/.323/.519 (167) ___________ .256/.291/.379__ (364)
Dirks (L)___ .265/.379/.388 (058) ___________ .332/.374/.513__ (216)
Berry (L)___ .222/.232/.370 (058) ___________ .279/.372/.363__ (221)
Santiago (S) .145/.225/.273 (062) ___________ .230/.310/.279__ (188)
Worth (R)___ .278/.386/.278 (045) ___________ .143/.250/.229__ (041)
Kelly (L)___ .091/.231/.091 (013) ___________ .189/.274/.263__ (106)
Raburn (R)__ .165/.224/.253 (098) ___________ .175/.228/.254__ (124)

By: kalinedrive

kalinedrive — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:36:03 +0000

Avg/ OBP/ SLG/ PA vs. LHPAvg/ OBP/ SLG/ PA vs. RHP
Boesch (L).238/.301/.344 133.284/.393/.678 348
Young (R).302/.323/.519 167.256/.291/.379 364
Dirks (L).265/.379/.388 58.332/.374/.513 216
Berry (L).222/.232/.370 58.279/.372/.363 221
Santiago (S).145/.225/.273 62.230/.310/.279 188
Worth (R).278/.386/.278 45.143/.250/.229 41
Kelly (L).091/.231/.091 13.189/.274/.263 106
Raburn (R).165/.224/.253 98.175/.228/.254 124

Pretty much everyone is a better choice than Ryan Raburn.

By: realgone2

realgone2 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:27:03 +0000

Yet again Craig with his hipster douche perspective. If a fan shows up with a bag over their head because their team sucks I guess they are ruining everyone’s time also. I wonder how much you get paid Craig? I can act like a pompus jerk for half of your salary.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:51:11 +0000

If any idiot Tiger fan thinks that any manager would be better for the Tigers, they should just stop watching baseball.

This fan is obviously an asshole and knows nothing about baseball. Sure don’t play Rayburn, so who then? Santiago? Worth? Dirks? The choices all suck. He sat Young who’s been sucking. Boesch who can’t hit a lefty and is generally sucking and Berry sucks. It’s a GM/system problem, not a managerial problem.

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:07:02 +0000

Seriously, I don’t get it. Craig, you’re going to complain about a fan being rude when you write articles calling out people every single day?

I like your stuff, but this is ridiculous.

By: drewsylvania

drewsylvania — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:05:31 +0000

“Tell us what if the difference between a fan with a sign getting out his negative message and any of you bloggers doing it online?”

Post of the decade.

By: theawesomersfranchise

theawesomersfranchise — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:29:45 +0000

Sometimes someone just needs a topic to blog about?

Tell us what if the difference between a fan with a sign getting out his negative message and any of you bloggers doing it online?

By: sabatimus

sabatimus — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:06:48 +0000

It’s also not cool to have DUIs, particularly when they’re unpunished…

By: sabatimus

sabatimus — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:05:22 +0000

How long until Cabrera gets suspended for deliberately violating the no-touch fan rule?

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:27:52 +0000

Yep…that’s what we do at HBT. We create mountains out of molehill’s (Jerry Springer Style).

By: frenchysplatediscipline

frenchysplatediscipline — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:05:19 +0000

At the very end Cabrera tells the attendant to give the guy back his sign. He was clearly having fun with the fan and that was great to see.

I didn’t think the fan was that bad either.

Can you say “mountain out of a molehill”???

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:02:52 +0000

Miggy definitely has thicker skin than that. Hell…he even came back to sign (after walking away) when he heard a different guy speaking Spanish to him.
Further, after returning to sign for the other guy he even laughed at the end when the dude called him a sign stealer. Listen…I think they guy heckling him is unquestionably a serious tool.
No disputing that. I just don’t think it’s earth shattering.

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:52:38 +0000

I’m actually with Craig on this one. In the video, the guy is such a loud-mouthed buffoon that he should have been removed by security. Cabrera is trying to be nice to kids and signing autographs and this nozzle is heckling him about Leyland’s decisions?

I disagreed with Craig when he got all huffy about signs shown to a player during a game while he is walking back to the dugout because to me, that’s OK since it is directed at that player. But for some loser to roll out of his mom’s basement to troll Cabrera and whine about Leyland’s line-up while the dude is trying to be righteous…that’s just pathetic.

By: delawarephilliesfan

delawarephilliesfan — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:42:14 +0000

I have not devled into right or wrong, just questioning the significance. It is wrong to run Stop Signs, yet the paper never reports on it

Plus, me thinks Cabrera has thicker skin then that

By: delawarephilliesfan

delawarephilliesfan — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:39:27 +0000

I am saying that on a scale of 1 to 10, this is about a 0.2.

In some cities that guy would be considered kind!

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:36:24 +0000

And if Cabrera figured he didn’t want to hear that noise and stopped signing autographs? And some kid didn’t get one? You’re still cool with the guy yelling at him?

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:35:16 +0000

So your view is that rude behavior is ok as long as people have long behaved rudely?

By: delawarephilliesfan

delawarephilliesfan — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:34:25 +0000

Give it up…..even Cabrera would probably say there were 11 worse things said to him that day

By: delawarephilliesfan

delawarephilliesfan — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:30:40 +0000

Oh….well there you go then….it was the rude fan that was ground breaking.

Elswhere, a pitcher stepped off the mound and turned to 2nd but did not make a pick-off throw. For the first time in history, the fans errounously thought it was a balk. Blog post to follow

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:25:22 +0000

I think it’s wrong to assume that everything that has gone on in baseball for a long time is a good thing simply because it has gone on for a long time. If that makes me come off as naive sometimes, so be it.

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:25:05 +0000

Note: the only person sitting near this guy (to his right) has a massive frown on her face. not to mention the hot blonde seems to have her unimpressed face on.

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:24:10 +0000

I don’t care about his sign. I think it was rude of him to be badgering Cabrera about Leyland’s lineups when he was trying to sign autographs for fans.

By: theawesomersfranchise

theawesomersfranchise — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:13:05 +0000

Sometimes it’s like Craig just stumbled onto baseball last week.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:00:50 +0000

Yep…this guy is definitely breaking new ground with the whole “Fire Leyland” sign.
My guess….this is just the beginning of an onslaught of like minded individuals jumping on the sign making bandwagon. What is this world coming to? Think of the Children. They are our future!

By: temporarilyexiled

temporarilyexiled — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:51:37 +0000

The headline:

Miguel Cabrera is stealing signs.

Too bad the story is about lame fan’s fifteen seconds of fame, and not baseball’s “unwritten rules”.

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:51:28 +0000

I hear in Boston, they players have to confiscate the ” Fire Valentine ” signs from their teamates.

By: aiede

aiede — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:45:09 +0000

The best Tigers fantasy team name I saw this season was “Ingedignation,” followed closely by “Rob Deer Season.”

By: delawarephilliesfan

delawarephilliesfan — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:44:56 +0000

A fan who wanted the manger fired? And he made a sign saying so???

Clearly this has never happened before. I understand your outrage, Craig