I'm (sorta) Back, Baby! Branyan Langerhans Fingers Makes His Debut

by devil_fingers on Aug 11, 2009 9:01 PM PDT in News Comment 28 comments

As my 13 loyal readers may have noticed, I've been on a bit of a hiatus lately. There's a very good reason for that, and it has nothing to do with Kyle waiting for me to pass through waivers so he could try to dump my contract on some other blog. And, no, I haven't been "tracking down" Dayton Moore to discuss "certain issues" with him. Here's the truth...

On Sunday morning, August 9, at 5:50 a.m. Branyan Langerhans Fingers, my firstborn son, entered the world. Yes, he is named for two of the greatest players in baseball today. I can't wait to start living vicariously through him and forcing him to bring his Z-Game. My plan at the moment is to have him bat lefty, throw righty, and pitch lefty. He's gotta make it that way, amiright?

I had stuff to do to prepare, and now, with my busy instruction schedule along with occasionally helping Mrs. Fingers with the more "domestic" aspects of B.L.'s arrival, I'll be easing back into the blogging thing. It will be off and on a bit for a while, and hopefully this will also help me learn to shorten up my lengthy colums. So much stuff has happened since I began my informal hiatus: prominent Red Sox fans whining even after they got Victor Martinez, silly irrelevant nonsense around B.J. Upton, Josh Hamilton, David Ortiz...

Yeah, most of that stuff I don't care about. I'm here for boring stuff about batting orders, looking at contracts from 2 years ago, and other stuff that's either trivial or been done better, elsewhere. That's what happens when you give a dork a computer. I'm not a techno-optimist, but the internet has certainly brought enough information to our fingertips that with the help of a few websites there is a seeming abundance of intelligent commentary on baseball for those willing to seek it out. I'm not sure I have much if anything to add to that, if I ever did.

But that didn't stop me before, did it?

In other words, I'm back, baby!

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Who are you again?

F*** Billy Beane... actually, I kinda like Holliday

by vivaelpujols on Aug 11, 2009 9:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Congrats

I know how it is with being the father of twins.

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by E5 on Aug 11, 2009 9:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Welcome back!

Congratulations on young Branyan Langerhans! Now to get to writing for us!

Marlin Maniac, a Florida Marlins blog

by SFiercex4 on Aug 11, 2009 9:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats?

(psst… who is this guy?)

Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all

If Dustin Pedroia played in Seattle, not many people would be talking about him.

GET THAT VORP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!

by baetown415 on Aug 11, 2009 9:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

BLF works as a good nickname

by royalsreview on Aug 11, 2009 10:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Welcome back.

Have you gotten my emails? And more importantly, the money!

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by Kyle Boddy on Aug 11, 2009 10:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

yes to both (I think)!

sorry! (and thanks!)

I'm not a sabermetrician, but I do play one at Driveline Mechanics.

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by devil_fingers on Aug 11, 2009 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Money?

F*** Billy Beane... actually, I kinda like Holliday

by vivaelpujols on Aug 12, 2009 12:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hush money

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by Kyle Boddy on Aug 12, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

You couldn't fit Hannahan in there?

by JonBBT on Aug 11, 2009 10:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Forget fitting Hannahan in there, how is his name not Yuniesky?! Yuniyan Langerhans Fingers. Perfect.

Fire Jim Leyland

And now at Beyond the Boxscore!

by Mike Rogers on Aug 11, 2009 11:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats!

Now with a name like that, I’d start putting money in a piggy bank to help pay for the eventual therapy :-) (I’m kidding, Branyan Langerhans is an awesome name. Way better than “Moon Unit”)

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by harendaman365 on Aug 12, 2009 7:22 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Apparently one of your 13 loyal readers writes for Fangraphs

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-average-player

And congrats on the new kid!

by AxDxMx on Aug 12, 2009 9:06 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats, DF

I hope all goes well with the new kiddo.

by jwiscarson on Aug 12, 2009 9:28 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Congratulations

You’re in for a wild ride. Have fun.

The immoderate moderator

by NYRoyal on Aug 12, 2009 10:34 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

from someone whom knows whereof he speaks!

"Things could always be worse." - Buddy Bell

by buddyball on Aug 12, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Congrats

to you and lady fingers

We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan

by Royal Kingdom on Aug 12, 2009 11:01 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Suggested names for the future:

M’s announcer Dave Neihaus’ suggestions: Langerman, Langerhouse, Launders, Laungers (the last two are inadvertent portmanteaus of Langerhans and Saunders).

Other possibilities:
Hannahan
Gutierrez
Aardsma
Vargas
Chavez
Ackley
Poythress

by Decatur on Aug 12, 2009 11:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I hate Neihaus

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by Kyle Boddy on Aug 12, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yay! More LL-Boddy flame wars!

Seriously, though, you know Neihaus IS Seattle baseball. I can understand if he’s not your cup of tea (comically poor eyesight, over-emotiveness, etc.), but I have a hard time seeing anything there to hate about him if you’re a non-M’s fan.

Although this is getting off the topic of “Yay devil_fingers!”, so feel free to close the subthread if you choose.

by Decatur on Aug 12, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Neihaus

Well, I can see why people in Seattle love him because of an emotional attachment from being here forever and yadadada. I’m relatively new to the area (3-4 years) and I’m not really a Mariners fan, though I will go to games and root for them over, say, the White Sox.

Neihaus is just not good at his job. That’s all there is to it. He cannot call a game accurately. On the radio, this isn’t so much of a problem. On TV, when you can clearly see he is a deluded man with poor eyesight, it’s embarrassing.

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by Kyle Boddy on Aug 12, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs