Steve Lyons Wants You to Shove Your Stats Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine
1-liner, Baseball June 26th. 2009, 9:37am
Steve Lyons Hates Stats: “There is a place, a very small place, for the computer geeks that are now taking over the game of baseball. There is a place, but it’s a small place. We’re seeing way too much of it. UZR. And your WHIPs and your OPSes. They don’t show me what kind of heart the guy has. BABIP? … Stupid. Doesn’t tell me if the guy is a player. Doesn’t tell me if the guy can play. Is he a gamer? Does he get dirty? Does he go out there and play hard? Is he a good teammate? None of that stuff tells me any of that. That’s the guy I want.” Dirt – certainly an indicator of greatness. [Can't Stop the Bleeding]
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June 26th, 2009 at 9:42 AM
anyone seen my wallet?
June 26th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
getting dirty and playing hard doesn’t mean shit if you suck.
fucking dumbass.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:48 AM
This might get me banned…. but it brings a smile to my face that baseball players don’t understand that they are nothing but tools for a franchise, like how individual laborers are tools for a manufacturing company… heart and working hard doesn’t produce runs and wins. Just not that kind of a sport like football and basketball. You HAVE to be good at doing particular things. Period.
Fucking dumbass indeed
/Spence style jock’d
June 26th, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Banned? Nothing in that comment would get you banned Jersey.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Whoa, TBL, I hope you asked jpq before you outed him like this.
/get off my lawn’d
June 26th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
I think it is funny when players from a sport that lives and dies on stats says that stats mean nothing. Guys like him hate stats because they usually expose them for the frauds that they really were.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:04 AM
como se dice … assclown?
June 26th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
what is up with all these fears of getting banned?
June 26th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Also, do not tell me that Cy Young won 511 games…that doesn’t tell me if he got dirty.
Don’t want to hear that Ty Cobb had a career BA of .366. That is just a stupid stat that doesn’t tell me if he was a “gamer”.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:20 AM
I was actually going to type something about farmers, but kept it out. Forgot to delete the banned stuff, and it was just jarring after TBl mentioned the other day he wants to cut down on commentators. Makes me paranoid.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Makes me paranoid.
Not me, TBL can’t stop gushing about me –
That’s the guy I want.€ Dirt – certainly an indicator of greatness.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:43 AM
I kind of want to know how you were going to work farmers into the post. More importantly if getting dirty, paying hard and being a gamer helps you play baseball, then your stats will be better. Complex stats will demonstrate how effective you are as a player. Pro sports are about winning games and titles, not about have teammates you want to have a beer with. Go play church league softball if that is what you ware looking for.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:27 AM
I think it is funny when computer nerds watch a sport that lives and dies on playing ability and says that stats mean EVERYTHING. Guys like him WHO ACTUALLY PLAYED AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL hate statnerds because they usually sit behind their computer spewing stats and expose themselves for the losers that they really are.
/what he should have said
//NOW get off my lawn’d
June 26th, 2009 at 11:40 AM
you know what those stats tell you tho?
how good a player is.
ftw!!!
June 26th, 2009 at 11:52 AM
but spencer, stats don’t tell you that a guy is clutch, like “Jetes” is
/Yankees fan
June 26th, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Would Lyons like a stat if he showed just how likely a player was to get dirt on his uniform during a game? My guess is no.
Steve Lyons was a worse announcer than baseball player and that says a lot.