Epstein: “I felt like (Cashman) was always lurking”
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Feb 01, 2012 
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For longtime rivals, Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein have always seemed to have a friendly respect for one another, and yesterday they spoke together at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
Tyler Kepner used the occasion to take a look at the relationship between Cashman and Epstein.
Cashman: “The best compliment you can give is when you start studying your opponent. We actually took a lot of different things that (the Red Sox) were doing and have acclimated into our business.”
Epstein: “We tried to focus on just executing our strategy and building our organization the way we wanted to. We got some rewards from that. But I was never able to totally relax, because I felt like (Cashman) was always lurking.”
As Kepner points out: You have to wonder how long it will be before Cashman and Epstein finally make a trade with one another now that Epstein is the general manager of the Cubs, and the former Cubs GM Jim Hendry is a Cashman assistant with the Yankees.
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Pineda for Castro.
Whether or not one thinks that Cashman is doing a good job, at some point, like Theo, he may move on to another job in MLB, if only to attempt a new challenge. If so, I don’t want Eppler to succeed him. I think it would be time to hire from the outside.
Epstein was interested in Arod, Contreras, Marte, Pavano, Vazquez both times, Granderson & Swisher.
Some of those deals Cashman saved Theo from disaster, but he was always worried about Cashman beating him to a player.
Back to the same old saw? I’m sure that Eppler made the decision on putting Chamberlain in the bullpen. That sort of thing is an organizational decision.
I’ll give Theo this much credit: He knows when to bail. The good ship BoSox is taking on water with a micromanaging president, a distracted owner, a pile of bad contracts and no prospect bridge in sight.
The team still has a lot of talent, but it has just as many questions.
“And the LoHud award for most tortured segue goes to…”
stuckey-
you don’t run into people with your kind of sarcasm much on athletic fields.
i think it’s a natural selection thing.
( they get weeded out of the gene pool)
“Back to the same old saw?”
Hardly. Eppler was only appointed Asst GM yesterday, which makes him the putative heir apparent, so my comment is quite topical.
It has more to do with hiring an established GM with a proven track record than any myopic view of an isolated decision.
Sorry to burst your preconceived bubble.
rein in a little, gentlemen. Theres nothing substantive to slur each other about at the moment.
How proven was Gene Michael, Bob Watson, Theo Epstein or Brian Cashman or any other GM before being hired for their first GM stint? you’ve been whining about it being Eppler being the one that put Chamberlain in the pen for more than a year.
once he gets away from that standing at first until the batter is in a 0-2 or 1-2 hole.
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He only attempted a steal 9 times in those counts.
28 attempts in the first 2 pitches. (first pitch 1-0, 0-1)
you’ve been whining about it being Eppler being the one that put Chamberlain in the pen for more than a year.
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You’ve been whining about something that doesnt happen (gardner waiting too long to steal) for 2 years. Maybe time to pack that in?
somewhere along the line, management decided that Chamberlain would go to the pen, and just a guess that it’s health related.
I don’t know Rich why Eppler gets all the blame on Joba and if so why he’s not qualify to be the next Yankee GM. How much do any of us know about him to make that determination?
That’s the problem…he only attempted to steal 9 times. He’s not very good at reading moves.
Well, Gardner certainly isn’t Ricky or Lou Brock.
That’s the problem…he only attempted to steal 9 times. He’s not very good at reading moves.
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So you want him to steal MORE on 1-2 and 0-2 counts? You probably just did not understand, so I will tell you again. He only attempted steals in those ‘bad counts’ 9 times. He stole first pitch 0-1 or 1-0 28 times. And in more aggressive counts the rest of the time (2-0, 2-1, 3-0, etc).
No one steals first pitch all the time. Not even the guy who had the most steals in the majors.
Well, Gardner certainly isn’t Ricky or Lou Brock.
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He isn’t a hall of famer?!
Just making a joke here as guys like Coleman can apply to it too.
“How proven was Gene Michael, Bob Watson, Theo Epstein or Brian Cashman or any other GM before being hired for their first GM stint?”
Of those, only Stick started with nothing and built a powerhouse. I don’t think it was foreseeable that he would do that.
The Yankees have the luxury, should the need arise, to be able to spend whatever it takes to get the best GM (the best scouts, the best player developmental people) money can buy. It’s not like they don’t set money on fire for marginal players.
So why take a chance on an unproven commodity.
“I don’t know Rich why Eppler gets all the blame on Joba and if so why he’s not qualify to be the next Yankee GM. How much do any of us know about him to make that determination?”
Eppler has NOTHING to do with any of my posts on this thread.
“So why take a chance on an unproven commodity.”
Because they might think he’s the best man for the job which is why they do interviews.
i’m all for Tim Raines being brought into camp and teach the young players how to read pitchers, get reads and overall learn how to steal bases at a more successful rate. There was nobody better. That just doesn’t go for Gardner, Nunez and Cano, but, all of the youngsters in the system, but, especially the speed guys.
“Eppler has NOTHING to do with any of my posts on this thread.”
So you’re not the anti-Eppler?
Anyhow, I don’t care if you are as I have no idea whether Eppler should be the next Yankee GM. I’m sure Hal would conduct a very detailed interview process to make that determination.
Rich,
why do you bother?
and just a guess that it’s health related
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Yes his health as a starter was such a concern that they had him train as a starter and compete for a rotation spot he had no chance of winning.
Rich in NJ February 1st, 2012 at 7:56 pm
“I don’t know Rich why Eppler gets all the blame on Joba and if so why he’s not qualify to be the next Yankee GM. How much do any of us know about him to make that determination?”
Eppler has NOTHING to do with any of my posts on this thread.
***Really? You had better find out who posted this while using your name.***
Rich in NJ February 1st, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Whether or not one thinks that Cashman is doing a good job, at some point, like Theo, he may move on to another job in MLB, if only to attempt a new challenge. If so, I don’t want Eppler to succeed him. I think it would be time to hire from the outside.
Damon Oppenheimer also got a multi-year extension and added responsibilities from the Yanks this offseason.
“So you’re not the anti-Eppler?”
I meant Jobber. I don’t have the highest opinion of Eppler, but it has nothing to do with what I have been posting on this thread. I think it’s time, whether Cashman stays or not, to look to hire people who have proven track records, like those in TB.
Phil
I’m a masochist?
“Eppler has NOTHING to do with any of my posts on this thread.”
As I just posted, I meant Jobber. Freudian? Maybe, but a slip nonetheless.
Yeah, it only took Tampa 11 years to get a proven track record with getting top 5 draft picks for years.
If Cashman did leave it would be great if Friedman became the GM.
Exactly who is this “Jobber” that you’re referring to?
Andrew Friedman became GM in 2005, about the time when Cashman got more power. His record is outstanding.
Jobber is Francessa-ese.
why in Hell would anybody think Chamberlain would be a GM? Just admit that you meant Eppler and quit trying to back=pedal.
“why in Hell would anybody think Chamberlain would be a GM? Just admit that you meant Eppler and quit trying to back=pedal.”
Thanks for questioning my integrity based on nothing.
Earth, still flat.
I was hoping at one time that Gardner could become a player like ex-Yankee Willie McGee , or even though I think has better skills than Otis Nixon, Otis was a pain in the arse when he stepped to the plate….Pitchers, catchers and defenses were already thinking about him being on base…..A very disruptive guy
” How much do any of us know about him to make that determination?”
ah, there is an answer .
we will trust our fearless intrepid leaders to make that determination
those yankee men who honed their great baseball wisdom over years of not wanting anything to do with baseball.
You great fool. You don’t have any integrity. You get called too many times for saying something and then deny saying it….almost all of them are different people. Your ego is so colossal that you can’t admit to screwing up..
Pat M. February 1st, 2012 at 8:31 pm
I was hoping at one time that Gardner could become a player like ex-Yankee Willie McGee , or even though I think has better skills than Otis Nixon, Otis was a pain in the arse when he stepped to the plate….Pitchers, catchers and defenses were already thinking about him being on base…..A very disruptive guy
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Willie Wilson was alway the one that should have been kidnapped until after the seryes against KC was over. They knew he was going to bunt and couldn’t stop him and couldn’t stop him from running, regardless of the count.
***series*** was over
“You great fool. You don’t have any integrity. You get called too many times for saying something and then deny saying it….almost all of them are different people. Your ego is so colossal that you can’t admit to screwing up..”
Phil is right. You’re a waste of time, and it’s obvious that you make everything personal and apparently have a very tenuous grip on reality.
But please answer one question: How many balls that the neighborhood kids have hit on your lawn have you confiscated?
Pat, the Yanks also had signed Otis Nixon to start with. he’s a guy who’s only real talent/skill was speed and he made a Hell of a career out of it.
Yep, it’s time for groundhog day. Same thing here, day after day, same people involved in arguments.
“The Red Sox, once Theo got in there and they started going in the right direction — and obviously passed us, and won the championships — their decision-making was pure, objective analysis, with a lot of discipline about what’s best for the Sox rather than the emotional ties to an individual player.”
this kind of statement reaffirms what i have been saying about cashman for a long time. i hated what he did with bernie. i hated what he did with wang. i’m close to hating what he’s done with hughes and joba. i for sure hate what he’s done with montero.
the red sox have created a climate where there are no core red sox players. all of them know that management does not care about them as individuals. from the way garciapparra was treated it went right down the line. players knew they would be bad mouthed and run out of town.
i don’t think this over time creates a team. i think it creates a situation where there are a lot of players covering their asses. if cashman wants the yankees to get to the situation where the red sox are in now where they have imploded as a team, all he has to do is to think what’s better for the yankees than for individual players.
if a management takes care of it’s players, the favor and loyalty will be returned. if management doesn’t. it’s every man for himself.
that’s a dumb way to run a business and borderline immoral.it shows a complete lack of character and real leadership. it is just corporate ego run amuck where management thins they are the key to the organization and everyone else but them is replaceable.
Why Rich…..I never said anything about you and now you’re getting personal.
GB….I think McGee was sent to The Cards for Bob Sykes, but Nixon I can’t recall….Maybe he was dealt to The Indians for Bob Wickman ????
Joe from Long Island February 1st, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Yep, it’s time for groundhog day. Same thing here, day after day, same people involved in arguments.
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This is great. One person started an argument, another admitted he made a mistake and tried to correct, yet had his integrity attacked.
But hey, if you like one person and not another, it doesn’t matter what the facts are.
GreenBeret7 February 1st, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Why Rich…..I never said anything about you and now you’re getting personal.
Gotcah.
GreenBeret7 February 1st, 2012 at 8:36 pm
You great fool. You don’t have any integrity. You get called too many times for saying something and then deny saying it….almost all of them are different people. Your ego is so colossal that you can’t admit to screwing up..
“Yep, it’s time for groundhog day. Same thing here, day after day, same people involved in arguments.”
joe on long island-
i think you said the same thing the other day.
deja vu all over again.
LMAO. Right over your head…again.
what did you correct? From Eppler to Chamberlain? Right.
Here’s what it’s really about: If you post something that is critical of the Yankees some people here personally attack you.
It was kind of fun this afternoon.
Willie McGee batting behind Rickey and in front of Mattingly would have been a sight to behold..
randy l. February 1st, 2012 at 8:50 pm
“Yep, it’s time for groundhog day. Same thing here, day after day, same people involved in arguments.”
joe on long island-
i think you said the same thing the other day.
deja vu all over again.
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I’m just getting in game shape for tomorrow, Randy
GreenBeret7 February 1st, 2012 at 8:51 pm
LMAO. Right over your head…again.
what did you correct? From Eppler to Chamberlain? Right.
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Look Flat Earther, it’s like this. I don’t think Eppler is worth promoting. But in the post in question, I meant to type that his decision on Joba wasn’t the reason for my criticism.
rich in nj -
don’t feel bad , gb7 is always picking on me.
i agree with you.
he’s real mean.
i can’t tell you how many times he has hurt my feelings.
i even sent him a livan card with all his amazing stats and all i got back was a crummy t’shirt that said “masshole”.
like i said he’s real mean.
tomingeorgia…..Earlier there was the topic of Yankee memories and although I have quite a few, but the one that jumps out at me was Mantle’s 500 …..Helped wash the taste of Koufax’s 15 K’s in Game 1 in 1963…..
randy
I just think he’s illogical.
Pat M.
That was fun, wasn’t it? Dredging back is better than forecasting, because those seasons really happened. Remember the best and hope for the best.
Rich in NJ February 1st, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Here’s what it’s really about: If you post something that is critical of the Yankees some people here personally attack you.
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It gets like that on every blog. Every see what happens on RAB when someone brings up the Yankees developing pitching
rich in nj-
all kidding aside.
gb7 is a battler and a fighter. and that’s a compliment.
it’s sport.
once you get that, there’s a humor too it.
he doesn’t require you to agree with him. for example, he volunteered to a free trip to southeast asia and i burnt my invitation.
that doesn’t matter. being straight up about it is what matters.
gb7 has radar for bs.
not saying your particular dispute is based on that but it might be based on a failure to communicate or something like that
AA0
Yes, I post similar stuff there, but I don’t see (maybe I’ve missed it) the faux tough guy stuff that you see here.
randy
It’s fine if you like him. I don’t mind being called on something if it’s fact-based. If it’s the result of an inadvertent error, it’s bs.
rich in nj-
who said i like him?
i’m just very respectful of people with blunderbuss collections.
randy,
I don’t know GB7, but I agree he’s the real thing, and no one here knows the half of it. I do know there’s no BS in Special Forces, at least back when I knew something about it.
pat m-
that was a oood discussion today of favorite yankee memories.
i think sometimes people forget how far back it all goes.
Rich in NJ February 1st, 2012 at 9:05 pm
AA0
Yes, I post similar stuff there, but I don’t see (maybe I’ve missed it) the faux tough guy stuff that you see here.
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It can get very personal on there. The tough guy act is rampant on when it comes to certain posters
Pat M. February 1st, 2012 at 8:56 pm
tomingeorgia…..Earlier there was the topic of Yankee memories and although I have quite a few, but the one that jumps out at me was Mantle’s 500 …..Helped wash the taste of Koufax’s 15 K’s in Game 1 in 1963…..
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I dug out an old scrapbook that my mom had kept for more than 45 years with ticket stubs and programs. in them were the games from Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland. Two in particular I remember well. One from a game in Detroit on September 20th, 1960. Mantle clocked a pitch off of righty Paul Foytack over the right center field stands for a 3 run homer and the other was going back to back with Maris with a blast off of Early Wynn in the first inning. It hit off of the exploding scoreboard in center about half way up on the right side. Old Early was stunned. Never showed much emotion until he was pissed, just stood on the mound shaking his head. Bill Stafford was cruising until he gave up a shot to the center field bullpen by relief pitcher Frankie Bauman. 6-2 win for NY and Arroyo pitched the last 3 innings.
“I don’t know GB7, but I agree he’s the real thing, and no one here knows the half of it”
tomingeorgia-
i don’t care if someone is the opposite of me on things as long as they are authentic. that gets my respect.
tomingeorgia
Let’s distinguish something. I have defended the guy from sick f’s here that have attacked him based on some twisted view of the military.
That has nothing to do with the junk he says to me here. That is demonstrable bs.
The South Will Rise Again!!!
rich in nj-
i think he’s just messing with you.
if you want to get even, just figure out a way to mess with his pizza delivery.
randy
I just want a baseball back. My nephew lives in his neighborhood.
All us old farts, regardless of politics, lament the loss of 75 cent PBR six packs.
“I just want a baseball back. My nephew lives in his neighborhood.”
huh?
GB…..I’ve been to The old Tiger ( Briggs ) Stadium on 6 occasions……4 baseball games including the McLain groove pitch to Mantle and 2 Lion games…..I didn’t clearly understand what was going on beween Denny and Mantle at the time but the people around me knew….I was 16 at the time and all I cared was that The Mick went yard …..
tomingeorgia February 1st, 2012 at 9:24 pm
All us old farts, regardless of politics, lament the loss of 75 cent PBR six packs.
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We never got PBR. All they ever dropped us was Schlitz and Budwiser (with CO2 fire extinguishers). I hated it when the last guy to have the can opener lost it. Mostly, we ended up using the P-38 that was hanging on our dogtag chains.
tomingeorgia-
what i really miss is getting a coke, a popsicle, a payday, and a pack of baseball cards with bubble gum for a quarter.
and the quarter would be from walking down to the store on the main road picking up soda bottles (that we got 2 cents for ) that people threw out of car windows.
GB7,
Did you ever share an airdropped pallet of skunky Ballantines with a Montagnard tribe? A good time was had be all!
… and a really good day was when you’d get a mantle card in the pack.
randy l. February 1st, 2012 at 9:35 pm
… and a really good day was when you’d get a mantle card in the pack.
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I was so young when Mantle played that an older kid was able to convince me that Felix Mantilla was Mickey’s brother.
I just want a baseball back. My nephew lives in his neighborhood.
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lol
I do know there’s no BS in Special Forces, at least back when I knew something about it.
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GB7′s supposed special forces background has nothing to do with how he acts on a baseball blog, and he has posted plenty of BS on here and has been called on it many times.
Pat M. February 1st, 2012 at 9:30 pm
GB…..I’ve been to The old Tiger ( Briggs ) Stadium on 6 occasions……4 baseball games including the McLain groove pitch to Mantle and 2 Lion games…..I didn’t clearly understand what was going on beween Denny and Mantle at the time but the people around me knew….I was 16 at the time and all I cared was that The Mick went yard …..
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Pat,
Briggs Stadium was a great place to watch a game. Ernie Harwell hanging out over home plate and hearing his broadcasts over the speakers, watching Kaline and Colavito hitting homers in one inning and then hosing out base runners in the next, Freehan’s voice could be heard everywhere you sat, hated Frank Lary and Jim Bunning going back to back in a series, the odd batting stance of Dick McAuliffe, one of the ugliest pitchers ever besides Jim Coates Don Mossi, great hotdogs. Everything in the park was green. I liked that place better than Wrigley Field. Never got to the old, old YS until 1972 when i finished my first tour in VN. It caught my breath with the size and beauty. I got there after the remodeling, but, not to the new one, yet.
Tin Cup…..Mantle cards were rare to find in my pack of Topps……I did have both Rog & Mick’s 1961 cards though, in fact I had the entire 61 Yanks team and just about the 61 Reds team…….I did extra work around the house so I could buy a few more packs a week…..They used to be a nickle a pack and you got maybe 20-22 cards…And if you were lucky the gum wasn’t real hard …I still remember the white powder that was on the gum…..My .25 cents a week allowance was usually devoted all spring for baseball cards……Once school was out it was time to trade cards or flip for them……
tomingeorgia February 1st, 2012 at 9:34 pm
GB7,
Did you ever share an airdropped pallet of skunky Ballantines with a Montagnard tribe? A good time was had be all!
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No ballentine’s. but, did mistakenly get some Falstaff once. even the ‘Yards refused it. Cold or hot, that stuff was as bad as Stroh’s
Jerkface…….Now this is what made you the targeted first one out in dodge-ball…….Still have that ringing in your head ????
I drank a lot of Strohs in school. We used to buy the 30 packs. Saved the cans so we could buy more.
Then one day I cracked open a semi warm one, took one sip and immediately tossed my cookies.
My body had said “no mas!”
Pat M. February 1st, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Jerkface…….Now this is what made you the targeted first one out in dodge-ball…….Still have that ringing in your head ????
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I know nothing about dodge ball, bu in this instance, jerkface is spot on.
Nothing worse than North Hampton Beer from Mass, unless it’s Narraganset from RI.
Bronx Jeers February 1st, 2012 at 9:51 pm
I drank a lot of Strohs in school. We used to buy the 30 packs. Saved the cans so we could buy more.
Then one day I cracked open a semi warm one, took one sip and immediately tossed my cookies.
My body had said “no mas!”
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Are you from the mid-west? Didn’t know that was a nationally marketed beer. That stuff is just bad. almost like goebbel’s and shiner beer in Texas.
I found a photo of JF playing dodgeball back in the day.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3931540480/tt0364725
Without looking, he’s wearing a little helmet, right?
Jerkface…….Now this is what made you the targeted first one out in dodge-ball…….Still have that ringing in your head ????
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They don’t play dodgeball in schools anymore, shouldn’t you know that with all your skulking around elementary schools?
Do they really not play dodge ball anymore in elementary schools anymore? Sad….
Speaking of Ben Stiller, is there a worse remake than “The Heartbreak Kid”? The original with Charles Grodin and Cybil Shepherd was great. The remake SUCKED.
blake,
They don’t play dodgeball anymore. Somebody’s self esteem might be injured. Such is the age.
Are you from the mid-west? Didn’t know that was a nationally marketed beer.
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No. But I used to buy it in a town named Hicksville. Maybe that had something to do with it.
Rich,
I wouldn’t want Eppler replacing Cashman, either. We don’t need a lateral move. I posted as much yesterday.
As for the great mind who concluded Joba was finished as a reliever at age 23, Eppler was the ringleader, reportedly. Cashman basically did a lot of talking and then abided by Eppler (Eiland also bailed and changed his rhetoric).
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/
cashman-disagrees-with-eppler-but-defends-his-right-to-say-it-1.1835500Cashman disagrees with Eppler but defends his right to say it
TAMPA, Fla. – Yes, Brian Cashman said, he wants Billy Eppler to keep talking.
Eppler, the Yankees’ director of pro scouting and one of Cashman’s most trusted advisers, started a minor tempest – outside the organization – early Saturday evening during an interview on WFAN.
Asked about Joba Chamberlain starting at some point this year, Eppler said: “I don’t foresee a situation where he would be starting at all.”
Asked if Chamberlain will be competing for a rotation spot next year, he said: “I wouldn’t consider that likely, no.”
Cashman, speaking Sunday in the clubhouse, said no determination on Chamberlain’s future – either for this year or in 2011 – had been made.
The GM again said the Yankees see Chamberlain as a “starter that can relieve” and that “we haven’t had any team meetings and said, all right, he’s a reliever for the rest of his life.”
Cashman said Eppler’s comments were simply an example of the “healthy dialogue” that takes place internally and that unanimity doesn’t, and shouldn’t, exist.
*as a STARTER
Pruf
Good find. Candor can be a virtue, but discretion, more so.
Face….Last week you had be hanging out at Santa Monica HS, now you have me skulking around elementary schools….Wow….Now remember , do not stick your tong on a frozen flagpole regardless what anyone tells you……While you are here, I did think of you during a scene in Money ball….It’s early on when Billy is having a round table with the old guard scouts and one of them rule out a player because of him not having a good looking girlfriend…..Funny yes, but there are still some real old timers who have that on their charts…..No malice intended but I did think you must have liked that scene….
That article proves nothing except an organization decision was made about Joba and Eppler was the first one to reveal it.
“stuckey-
“you don’t run into people with your kind of sarcasm much on athletic fields.”
Randy, that may well be true. Do you generally have trouble wrapping your head around the atypical? That a little too much running for the mouse in the your wheel?
Ironically, however, given that man reputedly eligible for AARP membership is seemingly still basking on the glow of his athletic accomplishments achieved during the Nixon administration and looking to use it in some unprovable quest to establish alpha dog status ala some high school knucklehead whose just self-aware enough to know making varsity squad is going to forever adorn the top of his lifetime resume, I suspect our experiences on the athletic fields of our youth are in fact probably strikingly similar.
I can say anything I like here, its vapor. You can call it a lie and I can’t do anything to prove otherwise.
But to play your game, I fully understand your (relative) impressive baseball accomplishments, but from me to you, if we were to face each other in our respective days, you’d probably get the best of me 4 times outta ten, but if I wanted to sit your ass in the dirt with something up and in, there wouldn’t have been a damn thing you could have done about it expect sit down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOkL5gdGSEA
JF taking one for the team on the soccer field.
“we will trust our fearless intrepid leaders to make that determination”
Trust has nothing to do with it as he’s the one that’s going to make the decision whether you like it or not.
Rich,
Hang in there, if you care to, that is. This place has its good and bad points
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“Damon Oppenheimer also got a multi-year extension and added responsibilities from the Yanks this offseason.”
You sure about that? BA reported only a one year contract and the same with Newman and Eppler.
I can’t believe that they may actually eliminate a travel day during the ALDS in order to get in wild card round games. Not liking that for us at all. I truly hope that they wait a year to add the wild card round.
“Sources say there have been extensive discussions about eliminating a travel day during the division series to create more room for the wild-card round. But in return, the union has told management it would want concessions on start times for games that would be played on back-to-back days in different time zones.”
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_.....ources-say
Crawdaddy February 1st, 2012 at 10:21 pm
That article proves nothing except an organization decision was made about Joba and Eppler was the first one to reveal it.
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That’s possible, but he certainly showed he was philosophically strongly in favor of it. I don’t really give a f***, because all who said “aye” made a baaaaad decision. Off with all of their heads, I say
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What was gained by making it public?
What was lost by it?
Stroh’s is brewed for flavour, firebrewed for flavor, you’ll like firebrewed flavour of Stroh’s!
Potential trade value, and there is a real value in corporate discipline.
My favourite Mantle HR was one he hit off of Hank Aguire? a Tiger relief pitcher. Mantel was sent up to pinch hit and couldn’t run. Anything other than a HR was supposedly an out. I didn’t see it, but listened to Yankee broadcast on a transistor radio.