Somewhat Manly Nerd » frank thomas http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog infrequent blogging from some dude Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:14:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Someone Reads My Blog http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/06/27/someone-reads-my-blog/ http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2009/06/27/someone-reads-my-blog/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:05:35 +0000 CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=1700 Hey, remember when I made that REAL TALK post, and in it I mentioned how Frank Thomas seemed forgotten? And how his OPS+ was actually fucking insane in his first 8 years? And how I compared him to Pujols? Maybe do you remember, since it was yesterday. Well, would you look at this:

NBC Sports

Because of what has happened to power numbers and power hitters during the past decade or so Thomas is often talked about as just another great slugger from this era, but that misses the boat in a big way. Albert Pujols is the best player in baseball and surely everyone would agree that at 29 years old he’s on track to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, but look at his numbers compared to Thomas’ stats at the same age:

               G       PA      AVG      OBP      SLG     OPS+
Pujols      1312     5696     .334     .426     .628     171
Thomas      1076     4789     .330     .452     .600     182

I really need to start getting paid for this shit. I fucking own.

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- A sign that you should turn gay: You start talking to two cute girls, and somehow end up with a dude’s number because he claims to know every poker game within 10 miles.*

- Reason #2451 the Academy Awards are a joke: Clint Mansell has never been nominated. Let’s ignore the fact that his Requiem for a Dream theme, “Lux Aeterna”,  has been reorchestrated and remixed and used in approximately 100 trailers, but after THAT, the Academy still ignored his work in The Fountain. How do you not recognize this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihF_aXi-Huk

- The Knicks DIDN’T draft a piece-of-shit European this year? Maybe there is hope after all.

- The key feature of The Matrix on Blu-ray is Laurence Fishburne’s pores.

- I think people forget how amazing of a hitter Frank Thomas was in the beginning of his career. First eight seasons = 182 OPS+. He was Albert Pujols without the glove.

- I don’t think it’s too early to get excited about Christopher Nolan’s next film, Inception. Sci-fi plot, DiCaprio in the lead, and a $200 million budget? I am fucking there.

- I’m only halfway through it, but Freaks and Geeks is already one of the best shows I’ve ever watched.

- Half the cars on Long Island just need to spontaneously explode. We need bullet trains, goddamn it.

- Bud Light really is a terrible, terrible beer in every conceivable way. I was sitting under the sun in 85 degree heat, in jeans, and it still wasn’t satisfying.

-The Mets should start paying me to attend games. I’m now 5-0 this year. Just transfer a few thousand bucks from Oliver Perez’s contract to my checking account, please.

- Prince won.

*Replace “you” with “I”

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