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Love the old school mentality. I hate players like Hanley that pose and show the pitcher up before slowly strutting around the bases.
I thought this was basketball, where you are supposed to pose after you put the ball in from <1 foot from the basket.
Harper is soft-spoken and casual, with an underlying wry wit that betrays his amusement at the Truman Show-esque attention paid to his every move. In the same breath, Harper can be alternately candid and guarded.Depending on his mood, Harper's current mustache -- which his manager compared, with a laugh, to Matt Dillon's in "There's Something About Mary" -- either began when his current hitting streak did or was cultivated as a tongue-in-cheek "disguise" to lower his profile a bit.Does it work?"Uh ... everyone still knows who I am," Harper said.Does all that attention wear on him at times?"Yeah, definitely," Harper said. "But you've got to take it, and you've got to respect the media, got to respect the players and the fans, and everything like that. So I'm going to come out here and play, and respect everything about the game and everybody around it."
the hitting streak is over: 0-4, R BB.Average down to .381
He's been amazing and the fact he's just the age of 19 against professionals more than a year or two in some cases older than him he's been down right epic.
He is still 18 I believe. It's even more amazing.
mark my words, harper will be a bigger star in dc than gilbert arenas or ovechkin ever was. i know thats a big claim but I believe it. harper is gonna be on the level of art monk, darrel green, john riggins, john thompson in terms of dc popularity.
0/4 again tonight0 for his last 8. BA down to .369
You think this might have something to do with the sports they play?
MarkZuckerman #Nats GM Rizzo on @ESPN980 on Bryce Harper reaching bigs in '11: "It's not going to happen, because he's not ready for that to happen."
Appearing this afternoon on ESPN 980 AM's "The Sports Fix" with Kevin Sheehan and Thom Loverro, Rizzo was asked if he's already ruled out a Harper debut in Washington this year."Yes I have," Rizzo said. "It's not gonna happen, because he's not ready for that to happen."Harper, 18, is hitting .366 with nine homers and 31 RBI in his first 36 minor-league games, all at low-Class A Hagerstown. He's still learning how to play the outfield on a regular basis, though, and apparently still needs to master several other aspects of the game."He's got to learn the nuances of the game of baseball," Rizzo said. "We certainly don't want to push him to a level where he's overmatched and struggles even for a short period of time. We're just not going to put him in a place where he has a chance to fail until we feel he's 100 percent ready for that level. When he is, we will certainly bring him up because, you know, we want to win as bad as anybody else. There's nobody that wants to win worse than I do."Believe me, if I felt he was ready to hit in the big leagues right now and perform in the big leagues right now, he would be up in the big leagues. If he gave us the best chance to win, he'd be up there and trying to help us win."
Full transcript: Sounds like he'll be stuck in Hagerstown for a while
