Robin Villeneuve

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I think what we saw yesterday was close to the how. Take that lineup, but insert DD back into the OF, and move Villeneuve or Bargo to DH. Peebles catches and Stark goes back to being a reserve.
 
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Gorilla33 said:
I think what we saw yesterday was close to the how. Take that lineup, but insert DD back into the OF, and move Villeneuve or Bargo to DH. Peebles catches and Stark goes back to being a reserve.
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So no Hunter in your lineup. I could see it. I could also see him being out there and batting lower in the line up. CMo leading off with the power behind him makes sense. I see one of the two combos and B looks really attractive right now.

A) HE, DD, KT in OF with RV/DB as DH
B) KT, DD, RV in OF with DB as DH

I hear the talk about RC but I am not seeing it compared to the other guys. As we saw last year we will need the full team throughout the year and TV will go with the hot players.
 
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Canada's Finest
Quebec native Robin Villeneuve burst onto the scene with some impressive showings at the plate last week and has emerged as yet another weapon for Tennessee's loaded lineup. The junior slugger hit his first two homers at the Division I level last week after leading the junior college ranks with 28 long balls last season at Weatherford College in Texas. Villeneuve's tape-measure blast in Saturday's victory over UAlbany traveled an estimated 448 feet according to Trackman, which is UT's longest home run this season.

Entering this week, Villeneuve leads the team with a .583 batting average, 1.167 slugging percentage and a .737 on-base percentage after recording five hits and driving in six runs to go along with six runs scored last week

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spyfish007 said:
So no Hunter in your lineup. I could see it. I could also see him being out there and batting lower in the line up. CMo leading off with the power behind him makes sense. I see one of the two combos and B looks really attractive right now.

A) HE, DD, KT in OF with RV/DB as DH
B) KT, DD, RV in OF with DB as DH

I hear the talk about RC but I am not seeing it compared to the other guys. As we saw last year we will need the full team throughout the year and TV will go with the hot players.
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Yes, that's how I see it. If he's going to be a position player, Hunter is likely the casualty with Tears moving to CF.
 
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preacherman20 said:
His native language is French so he is hard to hear. I may need Stark to interpret when we interview him.
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If you’re filling time, ask why there’s a difference in pronunciation between the way his last name is pronounced and Gilles & Jacques Villeneuve. They’re all French Canadian. Is it a tomato/ tahmato type of thing? I’m sure all listeners want to know 😜
 
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@1RBFjr said:
If you’re filling time, ask why there’s a difference in pronunciation between the way his last name is pronounced and Gilles & Jacques Villeneuve. They’re all French Canadian. Is it a tomato/ tahmato type of thing? I’m sure all listeners want to know 😜
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THANK YOU.

That's all i can see/hear when i see his name is the racing family. Once they started saying it the other way I was instantly confused.
 
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@1RBFjr said:
Before F1, Jacques raced in IndyCar, winning the Indy 500 once. He also had a stint in NASCAR. IIRC, he’s raced in the 24 hours of Lemans before.
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I guess I should have ‘fessed up to being ignorant of motor sports in general….but no… 😉
…does having a sister that lives in Bristol count?
 
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@1RBFjr said:
Before F1, Jacques raced in IndyCar, winning the Indy 500 once. He also had a stint in NASCAR. IIRC, he’s raced in the 24 hours of Lemans before.
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Yeah, Indy is where I know him from. He ran a couple of races for Bill Davis in Nascar (and various other teams since that). I mainly remember that because I figured the interactions between an Arkansas trucking company guy and a French Canadian open wheel driver had to be fairly entertaining.
 
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WallyBalls said:
Yeah, Indy is where I know him from. He ran a couple of races for Bill Davis in Nascar (and various other teams since that). I mainly remember that because I figured the interactions between an Arkansas trucking company guy and a French Canadian open wheel driver had to be fairly entertaining.
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I agree that that’s an atypical connection, but obviously they saw some possibilities.

I saw him race F1 at Indianapolis and NASCAR in Martinsville one fall. I don’t remember how he did in the F1 race, but he wrecked out on the front straight in Martinsville.

Scott Speed obviously did not make the transition from F1 to NASCAR well, either. On television I watched Speed do an Arca race. I later read that he was surprised that nobody carried his helmet for him like they did an F1 (and he drove for a back marker F1 team).

Maybe there was somebody before him that I can’t think of, but probably the most successful driver between IndyCar, F1, and NASCAR was Juan Pablo Montoya.
 
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Weatherford College has been good to us. Its #3 in NJCAA Div. 1 this week. Maybe there are some more big bats being developed down there and will be heading our way.....
 
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@1RBFjr said:
I agree that that’s an atypical connection, but obviously they saw some possibilities.

I saw him race F1 at Indianapolis and NASCAR in Martinsville one fall. I don’t remember how he did in the F1 race, but he wrecked out on the front straight in Martinsville.

Scott Speed obviously did not make the transition from F1 to NASCAR well, either. On television I watched Speed do an Arca race. I later read that he was surprised that nobody carried his helmet for him like they did an F1 (and he drove for a back marker F1 team).

Maybe there was somebody before him that I can’t think of, but probably the most successful driver between IndyCar, F1, and NASCAR was Juan Pablo Montoya.
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Yeah, JPM is definitely the best as far the modern versions of all those series are concerned. I'll always wonder what Tony Stewart could have done in F1.

So cool and crazy you got to see a guy race at Indy and then Martinsville.
 
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