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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
The most under-over-underrated player in baseball. Brian Gunn and Richard Lederer on Jim Edmonds. (Redbird Nation)
So Long, Edgar. Derek Zumsteg:
Confessions of a Questec Operator. (Baseball Prospectus)
So Long, Edgar. Derek Zumsteg:
I didn't understand the hype around Cal Ripken. I didn't get to see him that often, and I looked at the Streak and I wasn't impressed. When I was at the All-Star Game and saw how much people enjoyed seeing him, had come out to the game to see his last appearance at the Mid-Summer Classic, I understood that my not understanding didn't make their love for him any less real, and the fans from Baltimore found something in watching him play for their team for so long that maybe I wasn't ever going to understand it.(Baseball Prospectus)
Edgar has not been as durable, even as a designated hitter, but for Mariner fans, long-time or newly recruited, it's almost impossible to remember baseball in Seattle without him.
Confessions of a Questec Operator. (Baseball Prospectus)