shaw0n http://twitpic.com/svsf9 kenny rosenthal at the winter meetings. i think @OldHossRadbourn would be impressed w/ my MSPaint skills (if he knew what that was).
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Jack Zduriencik: Story teller | Mariners Insider
General manager Jack Zduriencik was talking tonight about the early days of his scouting career, and told this story on himself.
“I was at the College World Series, watching Joe Magrane pitch, and St. Louis had their scout, Hub Kittle there,” Zduriencik said. “Now Hub Kittle had been in the game 30 years by that time, and I thought I could learn a lot from him.
“Someone introduced us at the hotel that night, and I started the conversation saying something like ‘What’d you think of that Magrane kid today?
“Hub looked at me and said, ‘That big donkey? Guys like that are a dime a dozen?’ I remember thinking I probably had a lot to learn, because I’d really liked Magrane.
“Two days later, St. Louis drafted Magrane.”
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Wish Granted: Buehrle to Manage Cardinals?
White Sox general manager Ken Williams, who once joked that he should hang a Cardinals jersey in Buehrle’s locker, told reporters he’d be OK if Buehrle jetted away for a day during spring training.
“I’d give him a day off to do it,” Williams said. “I think it would be hilarious.”
This must happen.
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MLB winter meetings: Whitey Herzog elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - ESPN
“I agree with the process, but I don’t agree with the result regarding Marvin,” Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver told ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick. Seaver is a member of the 12-man executive panel and voted for Miller.
“I think we probably have to have a couple more players to have a balance in that meeting,” Seaver said. “That’s the thing I’m going to suggest. This is not about your feeling on Marvin Miller. This is about the history of the game of baseball. It’s a no-brainer for me.”
Miller came aboard the MLBPA at a time when players had no labor rights and and the minimum salary was $6,000. He helped do away with the reserve clause and saw the advent of the collective bargaining agreement in 1968 and then free agency.
With each passing failure to gain election to the Hall of Fame, Miller urged the Veterans Committee to remove his name from the ballot two years ago.
“I said it in the meeting,” Seaver told Crasnick. “He is on a par with Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson in terms of his impact on the game of baseball. He is right there.”
The brains, they're contagious!
The Veterans Committee elected Whitey Herzog and Doug Harvey to the Hall of Fame, the latter being, to me, one of those “what took you so long?” elections. I’ll never understand what exactly drives a voter to say no to a guy one year and yes the next, but, there you go. (I understand strength of a nominee class and everything, but really, either a guy is he or he isn’t; stop playing games. The context of what makes and does not make a Hall of Fame career really doesn’t change drastically from generation to generation, let alone year to year.)
This comes after the writers managed to pick both league MVPs and Cy Young winners without screwing anything up. Must be something in the air.
Hopefully, the logic craze continues long enough to get Edgar just enough votes to keep him on the ballot. I’m not delusional enough to think he’ll get in this year (even though I think he deserves it), but getting so few votes as to exclude him from future consideration until his fate is left up to the Veterans Committee would drive me to throw things at people.
(Because this is about performing your job correctly, I’ll leave the Marvin Miller thing for a separate post…or, you know, bunch of posts, because COME ON.)
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I found this via my Google Alerts.
Boys will be boys.
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