Sam Fuld is killing as a Ray

but they certainly had need of him. I am not going through it all again but what surprises me about everyone so convinced Fuld will just fold and be a crappy hitter is that he hit .299 the only other time he was allowed to have significant playing time. Obviously he is not going to have stats like last night often, but I think he will hit near .300 and with his other skills he will be a major asset to the Rays.

(HINT: he plays in right and his name rhymes with Kosuke Fukudome)

I don’t think he has any strong religious views. He got married in a Catholic Church which I assume was do to with his wife but I have no idea.

To be fair he is considered “Jewish” . A lot of Jews myself included have no religious views.
Fuld has been respectful of what we will call his cultural heritage. For what is worth the majority of current Jewish MLB players are half Jewish on the fathers side ( Braun, Kinsler
Ike Davis). I digress a little but one of the interesting cases was Mike Lieberthal of the Philies, his father was Jewish but he was raised a devout Christian and asked not be considered a Jewish player. He was not being insulting it is just how he felt and I thought it was disrespectful of groups to still list him as Jewish player.

I think David Cone is that last Yalie to make the MLB. If you want to got to an Ivy League school and play in the MLB you go to Princeton, Dartmouth or possibly Univ. of PA. He is the first major leaguer since the 30s to have gone to Exeter for HS.

and I don’t even think he would have made the team because he was left handed. It seems silly not to take the best player because you don’t want 3 left handed OF but that is most likely what would have happened. Also Fuld tended to have great off seasons in the Fall and Winter leagues but very poor Spring Trainings. Basically the 5th OF job was his to lose last year and when Colvin hit nearly .500 and Fuld hit something like .130, he lost it , BUT per several thousand posts last year I think this was a mistake. Colvin absolutely earned his spot but Fuld should have been on the roster over Nady who even the Cubs admitted was not 100%. After that unless the Cubs had been able to trade Dome, Fuld’s days with the Cubs were numbered.

noshy on my mother’s side. And presbyterian on my father’s.

no flag on the play post. It’s making fun of sports announcers, and the OP.

The Patterson thing is true but it only got him up in Sept of 07 when he had the great catch but no hits and it took him an injury to RJ to get back well over a year later in 09. He was generally snakebit with the Cubs. Injuries at the wrong time, being left handed and Colvin going on fire in ST.

I find the Manny comment a bit odd. His break came because of the Longoria injury. He was starting BEFORE Manny retired and since he was hitting and no one else but Upton was he was likely staying in. However he has been charmed with the Rays, Longoria, Manny and the bad hitting and suddendly he is Super Sam. As much crap as he is getting here the Rays blog is freaking out over him and so is their entire fan base

or Cashner just sucked? Again you can never have too much depth at SP.

The Cubs spend so much money, prospects, time and effort doing things that are “arguable-but-somewhat-logical.” They have a fatal attraction to 2nd tier stars and endeavor to pay all of them 3/4 of what the top talent is making.

If they’d dedicated half as much money and resources over the last 8 years to “identifying and acquiring top-end talent”, they’d be a different, and better, ballclub. And their homegrown resources would have filled in the gaps.

They thing that upsets me with the Fuld “sucks” and is not an MLB player crowd is that they never acknowledged that the one season (09) that he got any real playing time, he did very well and hit .299. I get the no power part but hitting .299 in 100 at bats is not nothing.

He of course is the unnamed player Fuld has mentioned who was late for practice one day
and sent home while Fuld was called up to take his spot in Sept of 07