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Matt700wlw
05-15-2010, 04:54 PM
http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/blog/roto_arcade/post/Albert-Pujols-on-Homer-Bailey-He-s-going-to-be?urn=fantasy,241119

"A guy that's really good, I think, is Homer Bailey from Cincinnati. He's got good stuff. For a young kid like he is, when he puts his stuff together, I mean, he's going to be amazing. That guy has a real live arm — good split, good curveball — and he keeps the ball down. For being in that park in Cincinnati, it's amazing."

Benihana
05-15-2010, 05:04 PM
http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy/blog/roto_arcade/post/Albert-Pujols-on-Homer-Bailey-He-s-going-to-be?urn=fantasy,241119

"A guy that's really good, I think, is Homer Bailey from Cincinnati. He's got good stuff. For a young kid like he is, when he puts his stuff together, I mean, he's going to be amazing. That guy has a real live arm — good split, good curveball — and he keeps the ball down. For being in that park in Cincinnati, it's amazing."

While this is the kind of stuff we like to hear, I think it is almost disingenuous to not post the second part of the article:



Of course Albert is also 4-for-11 lifetime against him with a homer, five RBIs, four walks and one steal. Maybe he's just trying to set the kid up: "Keep doing your thing, Homer! … (and the punishment will continue)."

Also (and this seems much more likely), Liss may have asked Pujols off-air to say something nice about Bailey, so as to temporarily enhance Homer's trade value. Albert can move the market, and he seems like an accommodating guy; Liss owns Bailey in the Friends & Family League and presumably elsewhere.

It was, after all, on a radio segment about Fantasy Baseball...