Something tells me they don’t let Frenchy sit in the emergency aisle on the team airplane.

He doesn’t really suck guys. He is just trying his darndest to not hit the ball over that fence. God forbid Jeff Francoeur being a rally-killer.

Far be it from Jeff Francoeur to ever kill a rally with a Home Run.

Besides, I believe he prefers the Jose Vidro method.

This is the first time I’ve heard someone say this who wasn’t named Joe Morgan:

Sometimes home runs are rally killers, because they clear the bases.

“And the Mets have a rally going on here in the bottom of the 7th. There’s 2 men on…they’re down 3 with Jeff Francoeur coming to the plate. Let’s hope he doesn’t hit a home run, here, that would really kill this rally.”

Hitting a home run with men on base can never be a bad thing.

This is an old-school mentality comment. To some degree, I can see where Francoeur is coming from, but it’s surprising that it’s coming from him. Statistically it’s a horrible comment, because there’s never anything wrong with any manner of scoring runs.

In a Frank Deford book “The Entitled”, there is a story about an old-school manager who deals with a scenario, where his mediocre Cleveland Indians team is down by four runs in the bottom of a ninth inning. The guy who leads off the inning gets on base, and the focal point slugger is up next. In a surprise, the manager has the slugger take, and sure enough he watches the pitch he knows he can destroy go by for a called strike. He ends up being walked, but that was the manager’s intent.

The methodology behind this is that the manager wanted base-runners on, to give the pitcher, or anyone who comes out to relief him, the pressure of having runners on. It was his belief that having those runners on base creates more likelihood for error, which could lead to more production, as opposed to the thought of having the slugger hit a two-run blast, cut the deficit to two runs, watch the pitcher get pulled, and have a reliever take care of the remaining two outs.

I don’t agree with it, but it does give an insight to that old school way of thinking. I’d rather believe that cutting a lead in half does a sufficient job of putting pressure on the pitchers too.

Oh, and if it’s any surprise, it panned out in the book not working, either.

i may be giving him too much credit, but i think he’s joking.

Frenchy should write a book about all his baseball wisdoms and truths. I’m sure it would would make for a good read while taking a shit.

There is no such thing as momentum in baseball. WTF! Momentum only lasts until the next team bats.