Harold was the most knowledgeable analyst that has been on "baseball tonight" and the one whose opinion i respected the most, right up there with Peter Gammons. i wonder if the action "espn" took would have been the same had he been accused of sexually harrasing a man? fight back, get your job back, quit and go to fox and replace mccarver. -- Doug
― The Piper at the Gates of Brown (Andy_K), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
"You have to advance if you want to get there."
― Andy K, Sunday, 22 March 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
if Ryan Church hadn't had the concussion last year, "we're talking a possible NL MVP"
GIVE ME HIS FUCKING JOB
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://haroldreynolds.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/06/enjoy_it_for_what_its_worth.html
And at the end of the year their OBP is always going to be higher than most of the other guys on the team because they clog the bases.
Lifetime runs scored/162 game average of all the base cloggers mentioned in this post (and, what the hell, let's throw the nonclogging-specialist author in the mix, too):
Adam Dunn: 99Jason Giambi: 97Adrian Gonzalez: 95Dave Kingman: 75Harold Reynolds: 75
― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
We could also discuss how the quoted sentence does not really make sense.
― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
are they clogging the bases cuz they are big? like SUVs might clog a highway...? im so confused
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, if you missed this in the comments:
http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/06/19/bugging-harold-reynolds/
I was sure this revive wd be about HR's interview with Bill Clinton on MLB tonight, which I flicked away from in a big hurry. Intellect meets Integrity.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Will probably go down as his finest moment: "That ball's alive...that ball's alive."
― clemenza, Sunday, 18 October 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
up there with "Canadians can't catch balls"
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 October 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
"There's always situations in every game where you have to come up with a run."
― Andy K, Monday, 19 October 2015 12:58 (eight years ago) link
i am so wary of people who can talk continuously for like half an hour or more. this dude just never shuts up!
― jill's got heroin (rip van wanko), Monday, 19 October 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
(xposts) All true. Just trying to give him credit for one thing he had exactly right, and instantaneously--even one of the two managers didn't know the rule.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 October 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
i am so wary of people who can talk continuously for like half an hour or more.
HR is particularly bad, yeah, but that describes every sportscaster ever.
― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Monday, 19 October 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
HR is dumbfounded that chase darnauds band played @ bonaroo on an offday
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
The Chase d'Arnaud Band was born, who have a sound that the group's namesake says is best defined by its "bandwidth."
"It's like James Taylor meets Crosby Stills & Nash meets the Beatles meets the Rolling Stones meets Def Leppard meets Metallica," d'Arnaud said.
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 June 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
smart move by harold getting his harassment scandal out of the way 10 years ago I guess
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link