Maybe he feels the pitcher is significantly better pitching from the windup, and keeping him in the stretch continues his misfire of fastballs right down the middle?  Nah…that’d be giving him too much credit for ‘thinking’ before he speaks…I really can’t wait to hear him at some point say, “Man…Sheff really killed us today in the 6th by hitting that grand slam.”

I want to see a team entirely made up of Jeff Francoeurs managed by Dusty Baker. That’d be the best team ever.

Holy crap. Do you think he’s being paid to put this act on? I mean, one comment like that is one thing, but this last week or so is just too good to be true from him. I suspect Joaquin Phoenix is behind this…

Had pre-2009 Javier Vazquez been pitching, I would give him the benefit of the doubt.  His problems pitching from the stretch, with men on base have been well documented. 
But since this was not the case, what was Francoeur thinking?

I think we just found a replacement for Steve Phillips or Rick Sutcliffe.

Clearly, Craig missed Frenchy’s Q&A with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.

Just skip ahead to his comments about his coachability and if the Mets wanted him to change. Comedy gold.

No, he saw it. I think the drubbing occured over at NBC.

Boy, a lot of people just can’t stand the fact that he’s actually playing well in NY, can they? So when are all the dire predictions going to start coming true? I want to mark it on my calendar.

Okay, I haven’t obsessed over the awfulness that is Jeff Francoeur the way some of you have. Am I wrong in getting the impression that he has good talent and good basic instincts, just not much upstairs? As the old saying has it, he’s a fine ball player from the neck down. I do remember when he first came up. Part of the adverse reaction to him now has to be due to the fawning adulation he got from tv and press commentators in the beginning. I say cut him some slack. Of course, he hasn’t played for any team that I care about.

I think we’re all missing what’s most obviously the case: Jeff Francouer is the Patton Oswald of baseball. Saying that, with that kind of deadpan delivery? Dane Cook can’t carry this guy’s jockstrap.