If you haven't heard of Bryce Harper by now, then I guarantee you will hear about him at some point very soon. Who is he? Only the greatest high-school baseball player who ever lived. Harper is a 6'3", 210 lb. catcher, who put up a slash-line of .569/.689/1.015 in 2009. AS A SOPHOMORE!!! Surpisingly, Harper only hit 3 HRs this year, which belies his outrageous power, as evidenced in the video below.
So why is Harper bumming me out? Because the cat is out of the bag (as whitey would say). After gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated last week under the title, The Chosen One: Baseball's Lebron, Harper has gone from obscure prospect to full-blown super-star.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't really care about this kind of thing -- although I do think it's regrettable for a kid this young to have to endure the Pro Sports Industrial Complex's Hype-Machine -- but now it's a virtual impossibility that I'll be able to get Harper in my fantasy farm-draft. And I'm pissed about that.
Lat year, while doing research for the draft, I came across the above video and this article from The Baseball Analysts, which made me so giddy that I actually had to stop what I was doing and rub one out real quick to calm myself down. When draft day came around, I came this close to taking Harper but decided against it at the last minute, figuring that since Harper was just a sophomore, and the rest of my league tends to be absolutely clueless about anybody who's not on Baseball America's top 100 prospect list, I would have ample opportunity to draft Harper in either this year's draft or even in 2011. So instead of drafting Harper and doming everyone in the room, I drafted the candy-ass Chinaman*, Yu Darvish, instead.
Now, Harper is gonna be, if not the first pick, in the top 5 or so picks next year, and I'll either have to trade up to get him, or overpay with some other prospect. Fucking bush.
*Yes, I know Darvish is Japanese. I just think it's funny to refer to all Asian people as chinamen.**
**It's cool, my girlfriend is Asian.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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3 comments:
This might cheer you up;
"what is there 2 say...I'M CARLTON SWAIN...need i say more????"
I stole that one, but it puts a smile on my face everytime i read it.
Don't lie...you don't have a girlfriend. And if you did, her name would be Gilbert.
The #1 picks in baseball have historically not produced great results. The names Brien Taylor and Ben McDonald immediately come to mind. I think this kid has all the talent in the world a la Josh Hamilton, but he is far from a sure thing!
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