This may have been posted somewhere but I just read Hawk Harrelson gushing over Lou. "If Piniella comes to Chicago this city will have the 2 best managers in baseball" :roll:
Why? Geoff Blum is a valuable Left-handed hitter off the bench. He can pretty much play anywhere on the field. He has some power in his bat, and he puts the bat on the ball. I love his versatility.[/quote] I gotta draw the line here - I'm coming down NOT in favor of versatility. All it has done is cause us trouble the last 4 years :wink:
Questionable personnel decisions - especially in terms of pitching, staters vs. relievers. Dusty-like in treating young pitcher's health (brought a rookie back into a game after an 80-minute rain delay!) Might be too Buck Showalter-like in terms of discipline. Conventional thinking on the SABR side of things (though I think we're not sure how conventional he really is). Pro-Girardi folks give him too much credit for the Marlins' relative success in 2006. All in all, I don't think we personally have enough information to be decidedly pro or anti-Girardi without allowing some bias to come in. Didn't that rookie then go on the dl? I'm not at all sure of the specifics of the incident but I swear I heard that was one of the reasons he was going to be fired??
Baseball on the radio kicks ass. I most strongly agree. I sometimes think radio is actually a better medium for baseball than television. Nothing I like better than putzing around in my kitchen and listening to a ball game on the radio.
Working now. :oops: See, it worked fine for me yesterday so I thought they must have just changed it. You know, give 'em a day to try it then slap the fee. I must have just signed in before they changed the page yesterday. #-o Where I got confused is the "current subscribers" link says "MLB-TV Subscribers" so I never clicked it. Oh well, it's working now. Not my team, but at least it's something to do at work. By the way, Minnesota's announcers aren't very entertaining.[/quote] Neither are Oaklands
They are unlistenable - I haven't listened to them in months. Although this spring I did hear Dibble say "Wrigley Stadium". Dibbles problem is that he thinks he's really bright but he's ..................well he's not bright.
I could too - especially if we could sign another big outfield bat and then platoon him with Murt. Or has been suggested I would prefer to see him rather than Pierre in CF next year.