Congrats to Tony LaRussa

[ZiggyTaxi]

TLR is just as evil as Jim Edmonds.

 

I have to disagree. I had the chance to meet him last year at a fund raiser...he stood and talked baseball with me for 10-15 minutes, was a very nice guy and jokingly as I walked away he said "Hey...I hope your team has a bad year" to which I replied "you too!"

 

He was actually much much nicer than I ever would have guessed from what I see on TV.

 

Then I guess we will have to agree to disagree. On any other team, I wouldn't have a problem.

[PujolsPower]

You are right Dalgreen, Card fans never respected LaRussa until this moment. I am still surprised what LaRussa and staff have done with medicore talent throughout the years.

 

I think that you are a little off base on your statement. There is/was a group of Cardinal fans that never liked or respected LaRussa, and probably still don't. I don't think that it is a very large percentage of the fans, but it happens to be a vocal group. I think the type of person who feels the need to always criticize a manager, even when he has had as much success as LaRussa, is the type of person that craves attention. They enjoy hearing themselves talk on the radio waves, or seeing a lot of responses on message boards to their negativity. I think it takes a lot of arrogance to constantly questions/criticize every move that is made by a manager when an individual fan has little idea what goes on inside a clubhouse and what kind of injuries/ailments individual players might be going through.

 

I hope the good majority of Cardinal fans can and do apperciate what LaRussa has done in STL and am ecstatic that a WS victory has punctuated it. I am also glad that the LaRussa bashers are pretty much out of things to complain about. He led a team that was an underdog in each round of the playoffs and was playing without home field advantage in any round, and won a World Series title with what many considered inferior talent compared to the competition. I guess some will still complain about his reaction to the pine tar incident.

[ManEatingTarp]

There will always be people in Chicago that won't like a Bears coach because he's not Ditka.

 

It's the same thing in St. Louis with Herzog.

 

The more time passes, the better those coaches and managers become in our selective memory. The funny thing about it is that both men won ONE championship.