Ms Karma Came Looking For Byrnes

a few days ago on a thread, that said something like..  Will find out this rockie series my true feeling about Byrnes.  ....?

But, sure, I am afraid to say I got some post season jollies over seeing Byrnsie doing what he did, after saying what he said.

but once he started shooting his mouth off about how they were better and he was never able to back it up by playing well, I had NO problem smiling when he dove unsuccessfully into 1st base.

Being humble is a great thing. I understand that he is the "voice" of the Diamondbacks when it comes to the media, but he should work on his approach lol.

Guy is way too emotional.  Until he can keep his emotions in check, he'll always be a terrible baseball player come playoff time.  

Running into Walls, Sliding Head First into Firstbase, Running His Mouth, Popping Up Fastballs down the Middle of the Plate, Trying To Hit a 3-Run Homer w/  Zero Men on Base....  

These are the things that got him run out of the Bay Area.

I had thought he'd matured as a player.

But this postseason -- with him supposedly the veteran leader of a very young club that many thought were still a year away from contending -- he proved with his mouth that he hasn't learned...

I was rooting for the Diamondbacks in the ALCS, but quite frankly, the Rockies played better baseball and deserve to go on.

I don't give a damn about what Byrnes said. He stepped up and failed. Fine, you want to gloat about that be my guest. Just remember that the last time an A's player stepped up to lead the charge it wasn't to win a series but to run Ken Macha out of town.

Eric Byrnes has been healthy and productive over the past two seasons... that's a Hell of a lot more than you can say about most of the Oakland roster.

i'm still laughing at how he got the last out by a first pitch check swing. hahah.

the A's.

It happened that my son had just been born a few months earlier. Things where hectic around the house and my wife told my brother and I to go to spring training to take a break.

When I got there I bought a baseball and set off to get autographs.

Way out in right field before the game is where he was signing. Byrnes wasn't playing so he took some BP then headed over there.

There was 20-30 fans. I was, like everyone else, leaning over the rail, ball extended waiting my turn. He signed the person's before me (an obvious dealer with a wife feeding him merchandise) and then stepped in front of me, looked me dead in the eye, then took another step and took the person after me.

It doesn't do it justice but it was like he recognized me and didn't like me. The dealer guy next to me even said, "wow, what did you do?"

As God as my witness I hadn't said anything, or did anything, just stood there and was dogged out.

Ever since, I've disliked him and rooted against him.

Sorry if that seems shallow, but it was really depressing to have a guy that you really liked treat you like that.

So bottom line, yeah, I was happy with the game.

but i definitely called the roll-over. he does try to do too much, but you can't take away the fact that he had an incredible season. talk all you guys want, but he would have been the best player on the team this year (well...not that he would have had anywhere near 50 sb's...maybe that's saying something about our a's...)

i still got love for you byrnesy. i mean come on, the diamondbacks were dead in the water, why not try something to fire them up? he thought that they would respond, not play even more scared. whose fault is that, his or the whole team's?

Sure, Byrnes plays with a lot of energy and hustle, and leaves it all out on the field. I'd rather see him play a little bit more using his head (and I'm not talking about using it to slide with). Great players do not forget to touch home when attempting to score, especially in the playoffs.

not touching home plate. Folks are still pissed off about that. Fine.

Then why the fuck did Miggy get a standing ovation when he came back to Oakland after signing with the Orioles? Tejada stopped running altogether!