Tuesdays With Dustin Ackley

by Jeff Sullivan on Jun 2, 2009 3:22 PM PDT in Miscellaneous

If you have a minute and want to hear from our probable draft pick, go read a little interview over at BP. Prepare yourself for such captivating insights as "But I really just go up there and hit" and "I don’t know. I’ve never thought about that." Marvel at how he uses the word 'hustle' five times in six sentences. Dustin Ackley sounds like Erik Bedard would sound if he operated under the condition that all of his answers have to take at least five seconds.

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I wish you hadn't brought this to my attention

Now I definitely want us to draft Strasburg instead

by Dewey N on Jun 2, 2009 3:27 PM PDT reply actions

Actually he used hustle three times or five depending on whether or not you count present/past tenses of the word "hustle"

by seattlebruin on Jun 2, 2009 3:29 PM PDT reply actions

I'm getting queasy

by abender20 on Jun 2, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Woooooooo!

You got slurved!

Free Tommy Hanson! Free Jeff Clement! Free Michael Saunders!

by Slurvey on Jun 2, 2009 3:30 PM PDT reply actions

Looks like Buster hasn't had his press handling training yet...

I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.

by EnglishMariner on Jun 2, 2009 3:35 PM PDT reply actions

I brought this up at the game yesterday.

Graham (I think) mentioned that Ackley had a reputation for not liking media attention.

My question was why even bother running that interview at all? That’s the sort of piece that a good editor should have quashed.

by Matthew on Jun 2, 2009 3:43 PM PDT reply actions

He'll never be Sean Green.

by eponymous_coward on Jun 2, 2009 3:43 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Sounds familiar

There was a passage in Moneyball where Billy Beane, as a young prospect, compared himself unfavorably to minor league teammate Lenny Dykstra because Dykstra didn’t have much weighing his mind down; he just went out and hit. Dykstra was born to be a ballplayer. Same goes for Ackley, I guess, and that’s not a bad thing.

by Suburban Shocker on Jun 2, 2009 3:49 PM PDT reply actions

Plus Dykstra was snorting steroids off of hooker's thighs.

by johnbai on Jun 2, 2009 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions

hookers'

someday I’ll learn how to possessify a plural

by johnbai on Jun 2, 2009 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions

And here I thought he was snorting drugs off TJ Hooker

Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.

by pdb on Jun 2, 2009 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions

"I don’t know. I’ve never thought about that. I don’t work on mechanics"

Am I the only one that is worried by that quote there?

by d0nkey on Jun 2, 2009 3:55 PM PDT reply actions

Naturals don't need to work on mechanics.

by marinerdan on Jun 2, 2009 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm not worried

because he can just go to Driveline Mechanics and get all the information he needs.

Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.

by pdb on Jun 2, 2009 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

Not really

We read a lot about how pitchers changing their mechanics basically has no quantifiable effect on their pitching, so why should hitting be much different? If the kid can just hit, more power to him. It means one slump won’t make him go change too much and really throw him off.

by jimmylauderdale on Jun 2, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions