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05-19-2011, 04:19 PM
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This is what I want from my manager
“The Long Ball” about the ’75 season (Great book), and in it they told the story about a light-hitting 3B the Reds had before they moved Rose there (can’t remember his name), who Sparky pinch-hit for in the second inning. The guy was obviously livid and railed on Sparky for “killing his confidence” and Sparky replied, “I don’t give a @#$* about your CONFIDENCE! I’m here to win ballgames, and if I think pinch-hitting for you in the first inning will help me do it, I will.”
Hello Dusty...remove Gomes...stop worrying about his confidence and such, and this view.. “I’m trying to be patient, waiting on Jonny, because I know how he can carry your club,” Baker said. “He’s putting a lot of pressure on himself, being his option year. If he doesn’t play some, he’s not going to get it at all.” Baker said that Gomes, a former American Leaguer with Tampa Bay, is the top candidate to be the designated hitter when the Reds visit Cleveland this weekend. |
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05-19-2011, 07:59 PM
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05-19-2011, 09:13 PM
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at least he's not out in Left Field and hurt us with his bad defense. I actually think Rolen should DH, have Janish play 3rd and have Lewis or Heisey in Left
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05-20-2011, 01:06 AM
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05-20-2011, 09:18 AM
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05-20-2011, 10:54 AM
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Why again is he on this team? 
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05-20-2011, 11:52 AM
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if a player needs to be pinch-hit for in the second inning the manager should not have started the game with that player
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05-20-2011, 01:06 PM
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If Baker ever eplained a decision with: "that's the way we did it in 1975," the internet would go crazy. That is old school baseball, before free agency, big bonus draft picks and baseball was still the number 1 destination for atheletes. Managers could run the show like a drill sargent and if a kid went home crying to mom, they just brought up a new one.
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05-20-2011, 01:15 PM
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05-20-2011, 01:41 PM
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05-20-2011, 02:05 PM
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bakers toothpick has penetrated his miniscule brain
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