Guess the Manager
by Matthew on Nov 17, 2008 11:10 AM PST
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Eh, why not? Assemble your pleas, odds laying, shenagins, poll gaming, et cetera here. No posting at DailyKos asking for support for your choice!
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Want Mills, think it'll be Wacko...
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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 11:25 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
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(and if those links don’t work for you, blame MLB for using Silverlight…)
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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 12:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Makes me long for Spring Training.
by mark sobba on Nov 17, 2008 12:48 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm curious if the Copacino+Fujikado people will have something good this year.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 17, 2008 5:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I take it those are the creators of the advertisements?
I am sure they will think of something for Ichiro, Felix and… I don’t know who else they will try to highlight since anyone else could be traded. Maybe something with Morrow?
How do you hype up the 2009 team from an ad prospective?
“2009! It can’t be worst than last year!”
by mark sobba on Nov 17, 2008 7:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I tried to get an internship there a couple of summers ago, but to no avail.
I’m thinking that they’ll have to do an Ichiro and a Felix. They’ll probably discuss doing one of Yuni, Lopez, or Beltre. They’ll have at least one ensemble piece where there are like 18 players, and there will be one that highlights the team’s new additions (possibly including GMZ and the manager). They usually do about six, so that leaves us with one more.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 17, 2008 7:26 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Hyphen FTW!!!
Maybe Hyphen giving a lecture about how he baffles hitters especially because his curveball, being from Oz and all, spins the opposite direction from the normal U.S. curveball.
And in the typical not-long-for-the-team commercial, how about Washburn pulling Kenji out from under a bus…
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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 7:41 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'd guess Cora but want Ready or Wakamatsu or Mills
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by I'm NOT Corco on Nov 17, 2008 12:22 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I'm hoping Larry Brown wants a career change
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by pdb on Nov 17, 2008 12:49 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I'll bet we could get Bobby Petrino
At least until he finds a new job sometime around the all-star game.
by sooper jeenyus on Nov 17, 2008 1:20 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I haven't enjoyed what I've read about Wakamatsu
Therefore, I assume he will be our next manager.
Prove me wrong, Z. Prove me wrong.
by katal on Nov 17, 2008 9:06 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
What have you heard?
I can’t remember all that much on him. He seemed to be rather indistinct.
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by JY on Nov 17, 2008 9:43 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
All I remember is his disappointment on not getting Texas
and that he’s fairly confident about this one. (I can’t remember much on him either)
Oquendo actually seems kinda interesting surprisingly…
Cora of course would be the “fan popularity” choice…
Randy Ready is a funny name
by Smith18 on Nov 17, 2008 9:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
A couple of his quotes
"From the outside looking in, this is a club that a lot of smart people around the world predicted would win 90-something games,’’
The M’s “can win in a hurry.”
If he really thought last year’s team was capable of 90 wins, I’m not impressed.
by katal on Nov 18, 2008 6:13 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
By "win in a hurry"
I hope he means in under 2.5 hours.
by Sec 108 on Nov 18, 2008 6:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If he really means 90 wins, I raise an eyebrow.
However, I also think that the ‘08 team, on paper, was not all that different from the ’07 team, which overachieved quite a bit. Certainly, they were not the second-worst team in the MLB. Quite a lot went wrong last season, and it wasn’t merely the result of the risky ventures of our offseason.
I would’ve pegged this team for somewhere in the mid-to-high seventies in wins, low eighties if I’m feeling generous.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Nov 18, 2008 7:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
On the other hand, I do like this.
Someone on Mariners Central found a link to an article discussing Wakamatusu’s role as bench coach for Showalter.
Putting together the scouting meeting and determining what is the most pertinent information is Wakamatsu’s domain. He is the staff organizer. Before the first game of each series, he’ll arrive at the stadium a good seven hours before first pitch to start putting the game plan on a board in the clubhouse. He’s already done it once, putting it to paper and in a notebook he’ll carry with him to the dugout.
The game plan will include everything from which outfielders the Rangers can run on to which opponent is most likely to bunt. It will include which opposing pitchers have good moves to first base and which ones the Rangers can be more confident running against.
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by JY on Nov 18, 2008 10:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
This is the best explanation of what a bench coach does that I've ever seen.
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by pdb on Nov 18, 2008 1:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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