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Did you ever make an offer for Vladimir Guerrero?
Brian Sabean: In a word: No. If we had signed Guerrero or [Gary] Sheffield, we would have been without [Jim] Brower, [Scott] Eyre, [Matt] Herges, [Dustin] Hermanson, [Brett] Tomko, [A.J.] Pierzynski, [Pedro] Feliz, [J.T.] Snow, [Jeffrey] Hammonds, [Dustan] Mohr and [Michael] Tucker--obviously not being able to field a competitive team, especially from an experience standpoint, given our level of spending.
Taking a look back now... Vlad has been 1st and 3rd in AL MVP voting the last 2 years. Meanwhile, only one of the 10 players Sabean mentioned is still on the Giants (Pedro Feliz). And he has a career .288 OBP.
Thanks Brian!
(The Wonderlic is used by NFL teams to rate a player's quantitative skills. It's like an IQ test, but it has 50 questions, and you're only given 12 minutes to take the test. So most people don't finish.)
Vince Young reportedly scored a 6, which is much worse than the NFL quarterback average of 24.
Here's the test we took. Since this only contains 15 questions, you only get 5 minutes to finish:
The Wonderlic Personnel Test ™ WPT ™ Sample Questions 1. Look at the row of numbers below. What number should come next? 2. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one: 3. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost? 4. How many of the five pairs of items listed below are exact duplicates? 5. RESENT RESERVE • Do these words 6. One of the numbered figures in the following drawing is most different from the others. What is the number in that figure? 8. When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for sixty cents? 9. The ninth month of the year is 10. Which number in the following group of numbers represents the smallest amount? 11. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type? 12. The hours of daylight and darkness in SEPTEMBER are nearest equal to the hours of daylight and darkness in: 13. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested? 14. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one: 15. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister? These are sample test questions and are intended for demonstration purposes only. The Wonderlic Personnel Test is published by Wonderlic, Inc. |
Answers can be found here.
Choi's Boys - Drowning
Oh Town Boys - The One
To Download: Right click on picture and click "Save File As" or "Save Target As". Requires Windows Media Player.
For outtakes and other stuff, visit Jerry's video site.
He only published numbers 26-50 today, so here's what I think his top 25 will look like:
25) Hank Blalock
24) Rickie Weeks
23) Francisco Liriano
22) Rich Harden
21) Carlos Zambrano
20) Jhonny Peralta
19) Grady Sizemore
18) Joe Mauer
17) BJ Upton
16) Roy Oswalt
15) Eric Chavez
14) Andruw Jones
13) Felix Hernandez
12) Vladimir Guerrero
11) Delmon Young
10) Derrek Lee
9) Miguel Tejada
8) Jason Bay
7) Adam Dunn
6) Mark Teixeira
5) Johan Santana
4) Miguel Cabrera
3) David Wright
2) Albert Pujols
1) Alex Rodriguez
I feel like Chase Utley belongs here too, but I don't know who to take off the list.
Numbers 1-25 come out tomorrow, so we'll see how well I match his actual list.
Here's my favorite, featuring Yao Ming...
Here's the actual clip of the Bill Buckner play. It's from 1986, so the quality isn't great.
Trailer for "24: The Movie"
OK, so I guess it's actually called "The Sentinel", but you could've fooled me.