Leadership

To be able to open up that roster spot (maybe 2 if Sweeney goes away too) would go a long ways in enabling some flexibility and maybe adding a good bit of offense (if the right piece can be traded for)

Seriously?

Seriously?

I mean….. Seriously?

This makes me sad and happy and depressed and optimistic and just generally conflicted and split in two.

Honestly, I really wish he was still decent enough to contribute.
Because really, it’s pretty awesome having a fat old guy on the team
that makes himself unavailable to pinch hit due to nap time.

Unfortunately, he doesn’t contribute. It’s time for either hitting coach Junior or 60 day DL Junior.

But I’m still going to be sad to see him go

I can’t blame Griffey at all for getting sleepy. This offense is the cure for insomnia.

I’m too young to remember but I wonder if this was the same discussion in 1973 when Willie Mays was a shell of is former self on the Mets World Series team.

But I just hope for the sake of goodwill towards the FO he retires.

But it stands out to me as more than a little interesting that the reaction to Griffey falling asleep in the clubhouse during a game is so drastically different than the reaction to Yuni missing early BP because he was asleep on the team plane during the announcement.

“ModernTube: Keith Hernandez falls asleep during Mets game” is a current headline linked on the righthand menu.

The sleeping in the clubhouse is bad, but if his legs are as shot as LaRue says, and as they appear to be from his play, Griffey needs to retire. The team can hold a ceremony, retire #24, and bring in someone who can contribute more than happy memories..

I will begin the speculation on who the two players were. We know they must have been around while this game happened (May 2 2010).

Hint 1: “Two Mariners players, however, weren’t. Both are younger players, fond of Griffey. Neither had an ax to grind.”
They must be “young” players. We don’t know if this refers to their age or number of years in the majors. For our purposes we can throw out any thought of players above 28 years old.

Hint 2: "He was asleep in the clubhouse," one player said. "He’d gone back about the fifth inning to get a jacket and didn’t come back. I went back in about the seventh inning – and he was in his chair, sound asleep."
Player A (just to keep a distinction between the two sources) entered the clubhouse in the 7th inning. Fister pitched 8 innings so we can rule out any members of the bullpen from entering the clubhouse at this time. Therefore it must be a SP or position player.

Hint 3: “The other player, who knows Griffey a little better, tried to ratonalize.”
This tells us that player B knows Griffey better than player A. One could assume that player A was not on the team last year and player B was. Player B could be any of the position players or pitchers but likely was with the club last year.

Player A: younger than 28 yrs old, not part of the bullpen, likely did not play on the team much last year
Suspects: Casey Kotchman, Adam Moore, Matt Tuiasosopo, Doug Fister

Player B: younger than 28 yrs old, played on the team last year
Suspects: Rob Johnson, Jose Lopez, Franklin Gutierrez, Felix Hernandez, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Jason Vargas

There are definitely flaws in the assumptions but it whittles the list of players down.

Is making me tired. Have a great afternoon everyone. See you in a couple hours!