Cameron Maybin Thread: Maybin Some Discussion, Maybin Some Fighting, It's All Good!

[Party]

::Admin Proclamation::
Sixteenth, September, Two Thousand-Nine

I bestow upon ye T. Swift, the User Rank of Biggest Dick.

May ye use your rank in the name of arrogance and the sucking of southern orifices.

[Beef]

Congrats Swift

[MiamiHomer]

I'm jealous.

[Ramp]

Men want to be him, Ladies want to be with him

[Beef]

Swift, my girlfriend's birthday is coming up. Can I borrow your dick?

[Swifty]

tee hee

[FishFanInPA]

Well done Swift.

[Chewford]

Although I think he will be good, just based on what he's done at each level in the minors at a relatively young age, I gotta agree with Swift in some regard.

I remember reading all about Eric Reed, and how electrifying a leadoff man he was and how he sprays liners all over the field and how he was going to be even better than an awesome Juan Pierre. And then Reed got called up and it was like.... THIS IS THE GUY THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A COOL LEADOFF MAN? HE CAN BARELY GET HIS BAT ON THE BALL, AND WHEN HE DOES, IT GOES NOWHERE.

Now I am not comparing Reed the player to Maybin the player. Just the general similar feeling I get. Maybin has shown me absolutely nothing, both offensively and defensively. He looks horrible at the plate and routinely lost. I get that he is just 22 and he should/could/would eventually be good. But man, he looks like absolute shit and it's hard to believe scouts are seeing the same player I am.

But I thought he was the best Chanukkah present ever?

I do not like that we this crappy crap and the crappy crap Andrew Miller and that catcher guy who doesn't know the rules of baseball and a couple minor league pitchers are all we have to show for losing a future HOFer and a guy who was once a reliable ace for us.

[Ramp]

Way too early to be giving up on those two. Mike Rabelolo on the other chance, he is not for me.

And Dontrelle has lost it. Not like the loving feeling from Top Gun either. Fighter pilots will not get this back.

[Swifty]

I think Maybin has a chance to be serviceable. I said it at the time and I'll say it again now, Andrew Miller is the best chance we have in that trade of getting a perennial all-star. I still adore his stuff, I just don't think we'll ever find a delivery that allows him to have a consistent release point, and sit mid 90's. If he's throwing 88-91, his slider isn't a change of pace pitch, and it isn't tight enough to freeze hitters, he needs the mid 90's fastball or he's just throwing BP out there.

Other then that, the trade was awesome.

[FishFanInPA]

Clearly Swift you were forgetting that the ultimate win in this trade is getting the Hopper.

[nny]

hehe, sorry, but I think it's funny to spout off cherry picked things and say "well I was right about this and this so I'm right about this and everything else." I mean, I understand a lot of people do the same back to you, and cherry pick things you were wrong about, but it's still funny regardless.

[Swifty]

Nny, all due respect, the "swift's retarded" stuff started with Dontrelle, moved to how bad the Miggy trade was, then to Nolasco, then Volstad, now Maybin.

I mean, if there's a big one I'm missing, tell me, but I'd say that the times I went catastrophically against the grain, history's proven me right (with the jury still being out on Maybin and to a degree Volstad, but my point with him was never that he wouldn't be good, but that he couldn't survive with the stuff he had and the approach he was taking).

I really don't want this to turn into a thread about me, but where was I so egregiously wrong when I went out and became so associated with a player and my opinion of him?

[lou]

Nny, all due respect, the "swift's retarded" stuff started with Dontrelle, moved to how bad the Miggy trade was, then to Nolasco, then Volstad, now Maybin.

I mean, if there's a big one I'm missing, tell me, but I'd say that the times I went catastrophically against the grain, history's proven me right (with the jury still being out on Maybin and to a degree Volstad, but my point with him was never that he wouldn't be good, but that he couldn't survive with the stuff he had and the approach he was taking).

I really don't want this to turn into a thread about me, but where was I so egregiously wrong when I went out and became so associated with a player and my opinion of him?

Mike Jacobs

[Beef]

We all gon fight