Aug 31st 2008 3:45PM by Jon Bois (author feed)
David Eckstein, the favorite son of old men who hate statistics, has managed to get his scrappy, sinewy body wedged within the blades of the rumor mill. Our Will Brinson reports that Mr. Eckstein may be headed to Arizona, and he also manages to express some disgust over the notion that Eckstein is somehow better than mediocre.

Well, I’d like to make a counterpoint. David Eckstein, you see, he’s a scrapper. I don’t really know what “scrapper” means, but still, he’s a scrapper. A hard worker. What? You want me to back that up? Well, uh, look at that picture. It lacks any specific context, but you can tell that he’s running hard! Look at that face. It’s a face of determination. Well, that, or he’s making that whiny sort of fart noise you can only make with your mouth. Fine, Brinson, you win this round.

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