Sorry, Tacoma

by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 22, 2006 10:42 AM PST in Seattle Mariners News, Regular

You have to watch one of the biggest busts in recent draft history.

I don't have anything to say about Sean Burroughs, really, except that a few years ago Kevin Towers compared his batting style to a guy swinging a tennis racket, and for some reason that's stuck with me. For a fatass he's developed remarkably little power, preferring instead to slap groundballs around the infield and try to beat them out with his Ron Cey shuffle. His offense has completely and utterly stagnated since breaking into professional baseball as an 18 year old, and at this point he's essentially a lost cause. I can't help but think Nick Lachey is somehow involved in all of this.

At 26 you'd think Burroughs still has hope, but honestly, no, I don't think he does. He had all the talent in the world when he was drafted but he never bothered to work to get better, and you know what they say about people changing (they don't). Not that I'm at all upset about this, because it's just Tacoma and I suppose there are worse gambles than a former first-round draft pick, but don't try to read too far into this and see any Major League implications, because there aren't any. Sean Burroughs sucks, and even a front office as comically retarded as Seattle's can see that.

(On the other hand, Hell hath no fury like a Hunter Brown scorned, so this might get interesting.)

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NOOOOO!!!!

First Doyle, now HB26!!! Well, unless, of course, he's getting bumped up to Seattle (yeah, right...)

Man, what a horrible, horrible offseason.

Iceberg, right ahead!

by PositivePaul on Dec 22, 2006 10:54 AM PST reply actions

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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by Deanna on Dec 22, 2006 1:32 PM PST up reply actions

What might have been

IIRC, several years ago the Mariners were actually considering trading for Burroughs. Might have been part of the trade talks involving Cirillo. At that time Burroughs was still regarded as a viable 3B prospect, though he had shed his up-and-coming all star label.

by Steve Nelson on Dec 22, 2006 11:25 AM PST reply actions

Isolated Power

WFB career ISP: .017
Burroughs career ISP: .018

I was crossing my fingers hoping The Igniter would beat him.

by Manzanillos Cup on Dec 22, 2006 1:02 PM PST reply actions

Sean 250/300/300 Burroughs

Yeah, I can't wait, that little nepotist shit.

by Gomez on Dec 22, 2006 7:05 PM PST reply actions

wut the hell

by ZeZetheX on Dec 22, 2006 11:20 PM PST reply actions

*What

I think I should try to be the designated spell checker from now on...

We'll Always Have the Kingdome:

by BrettJMiller on Dec 22, 2006 11:30 PM PST up reply actions

Every site needs one.

And no more than that.

by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 22, 2006 11:32 PM PST up reply actions

Can I be the translator?

by Graham MacAree on Dec 22, 2006 11:36 PM PST up reply actions

I wonder

how many languages do we cover with regular readers at LL?

Deanna has Japanese
I have Mandarin with smatterings of Spanish, German, Esperanto, Korean and ancient Greek (boy does that one come in handy /sarcasm)

Language sound-off people.

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 12:26 AM PST up reply actions

I guess

English, basic French, and a bunch of random Latin.

I can also say 'Thank you grandmother, it was delicious' in Cantonese, which is all I've ever really required of that language.

Mandarin's going to be a really useful tool if you're trying to get into baseball, what with the expansion into China.

by Graham MacAree on Dec 23, 2006 12:39 AM PST up reply actions

I would to get into baseball

but I don't have the connections to land any job high enough in the org charts to sustain my life. With 4 years of $45K+ education behind me I can't exactly take an hourly job answering the phones while I "prove myself" to baseball people.

I'm hoping after I get my MBA I might be able to find something, but I'm not holding my breath.

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 1:08 AM PST up reply actions

I'm going to try the proving self thing

My parents are being weirdly supportive of me using my pending M.Eng to be a front office's bitch for a couple of years. They probably find it funny.

by Graham MacAree on Dec 23, 2006 1:10 AM PST up reply actions

Good for you

I wish I had the faith to do the same. I'm left to hope my research pans out into something (which it wont) while I go be a banking whore in Manhatten (puke).

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 1:30 AM PST up reply actions

On the plus side,

If I get in you'll know me :P

by Graham MacAree on Dec 23, 2006 1:33 AM PST up reply actions

Just to go ahead and be the first in line

can I have job?

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 1:35 AM PST up reply actions

a job, that is.

Despite how the missing articles may make me appear via text, I actually do not originate from eastern europe.

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 1:35 AM PST up reply actions

Okiedokie.

by Graham MacAree on Dec 23, 2006 1:36 AM PST up reply actions

English, Spanish, ancient Greek.

:sigh:

by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 23, 2006 1:01 AM PST up reply actions

a fellow classicist?

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 1:09 AM PST up reply actions

Nope.

Just an idiot who thought Greek 101 would be an easy class in between chemistry major requirements.

by Jeff Sullivan on Dec 23, 2006 1:13 AM PST up reply actions

wow, wrong

so very very wrong

by Matthew on Dec 23, 2006 1:27 AM PST up reply actions

Is ancient Greek

A requirement in high scool that I somehow completely missed?

by Graham MacAree on Dec 23, 2006 1:11 AM PST up reply actions

Not in mine

But Spanish sure was.

So English and Spanish for me.

Hoping to learn German someday.

Aici zace un om despre care nu se ştie prea mult.

by Goose on Dec 23, 2006 2:33 AM PST up reply actions

Fun language

with a lot of long, convoluted words, but you knew that ;P

I took it while at UNLV and there's a ton of vocabulary, but the basic rules of grammar (conjugation and such) are the same, so that's a huge adjustment you won't need to make. Same rules, basically, different language.

by Gomez on Dec 23, 2006 3:26 PM PST up reply actions

whee

I can read Hangul... I just don't actually know any words in Korean anymore. But it actually helps when looking through KBO websites, I can at least pick out the right player names.

To be fair, my Japanese is between JLPT3 and JLPT2, and I haven't taken a formal class in it since 1999, but since I'm pretty focused in the stuff I use it for most of the time these days (75% baseball, 20% TV/movie plots, 5% video games), I can do pretty well with domain knowledge. If you told me to translate something like the business section of a newspaper, the only words I'd know would probably be the ones that come up in talking about baseball contract negotiations :)

Marinerds - a different daily dose of baseblog.

by Deanna on Dec 23, 2006 2:49 AM PST up reply actions

Spanish

I speak Spanish fluently.

by Jerry on Dec 23, 2006 10:42 AM PST up reply actions

Ach, Gerpotenwogen!

Ich kann ja ein bißchen auf deutsch reden. Es war mein Hauptfach an der Universität, aber ich habe nicht eine Klasse seit 10 Jahren gehabt.

Ja tozia gobayoo poRusski, m'noga. Ja izoochaiyool Russki yazeek, v'universitaytay.

In other words, German was my major in college, and I also took a year of Russian. Yes, I had German and Russian class the same quarter once, which made for some interesting language interference. "Uh, Ja, I mean, Da..."

Iceberg, right ahead!

by PositivePaul on Dec 23, 2006 1:45 PM PST up reply actions