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  1. CrackerJack
    so more than double the people here disapprove rather than approve the job that AA has done ... does doing the impossible (dealing Reyes) move the needle at all?
  2. CrackerJack
    so is Tulo gonna do the stir it up thingy? haha
  3. CrackerJack
    that's what's normally done, yes, so isn't it a little odd that (with AA's days supposedly numbered) Rogers gave Alex the green light to make the big (backloaded) free agent signing last winter and now added Tulo's big contract?
  4. CrackerJack
    I was at the game. Never had the feeling we were going to lose. Felt like just a matter of time. With the Wild Thing in, you knew that Rickey was gonna get on (and we were only down by a run) and that Molitor (M.V.P.) would do something ...
  5. CrackerJack
    sad sad day for my wife ... while she recognized Reyes shortcomings on the field, she adored his personality.
  6. CrackerJack
    yeah, should've given him the hook with bases loaded and none out in the first.
  7. CrackerJack
    Great win by the Gibber! pinch hitting Carrera for Valencia ... sticking with Cola for yet another game winning knock ... exceptional use of the pen etc. etc.
  8. CrackerJack
    well, Gray does a bit better against LH batters and Smoak is 1 for 12 (with 6 Ks) vs Gray. oh, and big game winning rbi by Cola today!
  9. CrackerJack
    don't sweat it bro. he's like our 5th or 6th OF coming out of spring training. Pompey should be up pretty soon.
  10. CrackerJack
    yes, I expect Pompey back sooner rather than later. it's a good sign that they had him starting in LF in Buffalo last night ... and hopefully we'll see Saunders before all's said and done (tho i'm not counting on it)
  11. CrackerJack
    I don't even consider Carerra much of a defensive upgrade over the infielder Valencia ... Carerra looks pretty unsteady in the field and at least Valencia won't run over Pilar out there. Smoak's defense is a tad overrated ... good glove man but still couldn't pick a throw in the dirt from Travis yesterday ... actually with the huge foul territory in Oakland Cola has better range to get to foul pop ups. who cares that Cola's BABIP is flukey? when it comes back down to earth then sit him. who cares if he can't maintain his BABIP going forward into the future (next year etc.)? so long as his hits are touching green this year then why complain about it? give the dude some ABs half the time ... he didn't let a routine groundball go thru his legs like Smoak did in Chicago.
  12. CrackerJack
    they're fresh in my head because I read Francona's bio The Red Sox Years last week.
  13. CrackerJack
    so that means ... during those 6 weeks when Bautista couldn't play the OF, you would've sat either Jose or Edwin for Smoak ... interesting.
  14. CrackerJack
    Most managers stay in their office and keep the f*** out of the clubhouse and let boys be boys. Terry Francona, for example, wasn't even aware that all his players were taking shots of Jack Daniels in the clubhouse before every playoff game during their first championship run. And when he happened to pass thru the clubhouse before the clinching world series game and saw the boys taking their shots, he was surprised to see it yet downed one too (when offered one.) Francona also had no problem with Beckett, Lackey & Lester (and any of his starters) drinking beers in the clubhouse on games that they weren't pitching and also thought it was no big deal when his players wanted Popeyes chicken delivered to the clubhouse. Managers aren't babysitters and Francona is viewed as a pretty good manager, no?
  15. CrackerJack
    oh, so there's no confusion, LaCava wasn't a guest on the show. Blair said "Tony LaCava told me ..." (FWIW)
  16. CrackerJack
    heard Jeff Blair talk about it on Prime Time Sports (the Fan 590) this afternoon. the only part I added myself was obviously the Jays will have to eat some serious coin.
  17. CrackerJack
    Gibbons has no choince but to play Reyes at shortstop (as was already clearly apparent.) Tony LaCava told Jeff Blair that the front office will try to trade Reyes this offseason (obviously with the Jays having to eat some serious coin) and ... for that reason ... since Reyes' offensive numbers (tho down this year) look better at the shortstop position that's where they're keeping him.
  18. CrackerJack
    yeah, it's nice when your # 9 guy can get on for Donaldson & Bautista.
  19. CrackerJack
    well, given that AA gave Russell Martin the biggest FA contract in Blue Jays history he probably was looking at more than Russell's career batting average and RBIs ...
  20. CrackerJack
    Francona's book also has good insight on the whole chicken and beer in the clubhouse ordeal (which he didn't oppose.)
  21. CrackerJack
    The core of the championship teams loved playing for Cito. Flags fly forever.
  22. CrackerJack
    Cashman arrived at the sabermetrics party very late ... he made numerous horrendously awful and laughable big ticket pitching acquisitions after Cone, Clemens, Wells moved on (as Torre's biography highlights.)
  23. CrackerJack
    well it appears so because Girardi likes numbers whereas Torre likes "heartbeats." Cashman definitely wasn't in Torre's corner at the end. I read Torre's The Yankee years and Francona's The Red Sox years back to back (from the library.) Very interesting to read the different perspectives of those overlapping years between the two historic baseball rivals. IMO, Francona's book is better written and a more enjoyable read.
  24. CrackerJack
    Well, everybody (or almost everybody) is into sabermetrics now (there are still a few dinosaurs kicking around in the game) but its prominence arose largely after Cito's first go around ... (sure Earl Weaver & Tony La Russa were ahead of their time) ... but it's perhaps a little "unfair" to view managing then with sabermetric principles of today. I just finished reading Joe Torre's biography The Yankee Years ... you know, the GREAT Hall of Fame manager of 4 world series championships in 5 years. And after GM Cashman read Moneyball, he started giving Torre lineup advice like putting the best OBP guys higher up in the order, and Torre didn't buy it; he was dismissal of Cashman's stats, telling him "Never forget there's a heartbeat in this game." And this was the GREAT Joe Torre! . . . so Cito certainly wasn't the exception in the '80s/'90s.
  25. CrackerJack
    ... yeah and then they hop on a plane and fly to Houston to face the resting Astros tomorrow.
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