Bloom Don’t mess this hire up and don’t drag your feet .Cora is our guy !!!!

[notin]

Didn't want to keep their interim manager?

 

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/10/tigers-rumors-manager-aj-hinch-alex-cora.html

 

Apparently not all that much

[mvp 78]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/10/tigers-rumors-manager-aj-hinch-alex-cora.html

 

Apparently not all that much

 

That writer seems like a dope. Not for the rumor, but for some of the stuff he wrote in there.

[Bellhorn04]

Lee derived considerable pleasure from the Red Sox victory in the 2004 World Series, and even more residual pleasure from the ALCS comeback over the team he hated most, the New York Yankees, the team he once termed “brownshirts” and “Nazis” and “thugs.” Lee watched the games with his wife from a bar in Hawaii. Also present were a collection of Yankees fans that he said shriveled up with each successive New York loss, “like testicles in a cold Nova Scotia spring.” He couldn’t resist adding the spurious news that George Steinbrenner planned to move the Yankees to the Philippines where they would play under the new name “The Manila Folders.”

 

It's a shame we won't get him in the booth for a few series. Lee is a national treasure.

 

"testicles in a cold Nova Scotia spring"

[notin]

"testicles in a cold Nova Scotia spring"

 

Does that bring back childhood memories?

[Kimmi]

Maybe? Is Cora's brand tarnished across the league?

 

I am really not getting that impression. I think Cora will be in demand by any team searching for a manager.

[Bellhorn04]

Does that bring back childhood memories?

 

Spaceman knows his Canadian Maritime provinces. After being tossed from MLB he played some semi-pro ball for the Moncton (New Brunswick) Mets.

[mvp 78]

And I highly recommend the "Bill Lee: Baseball Odyssey" documentary about him barnstorming in Cuba.

[moonslav59]

The landscape is just so different today than it used to be. If the overpaid boobs don't happen to like you, guess what - it makes really no difference whether you are a good baseball manager or not, you are gone. I have lost a great deal of my passion for any type of professional sport because of this. Mangers today should be required to have degrees in counciling before applying for any available position. Mangers like Dick Williams of which there were many, would not survive today without dramatically changing their style to coincide with the "softness" that society requires.

 

Excellent post, cp.

[Bellhorn04]

And I highly recommend the "Bill Lee: Baseball Odyssey" documentary about him barnstorming in Cuba.

 

I have his book "Have Glove, Will Travel".

[mvp 78]

I have his book "Have Glove, Will Travel".

 

That will go on my Xmas list.

[moonslav59]

And I highly recommend the "Bill Lee: Baseball Odyssey" documentary about him barnstorming in Cuba.

 

Is this on Netflix, prime, ???

[mvp 78]

Is this on Netflix, prime, ???

 

You can rent it with Prime for $1.99.

[cp176]

Excellent post, cp.

 

Thank you - The landscape of professional sports has certainly changed over the years. Entertainment in general has taken on a societal role I think that I just do have a had time with. I like what Bird said - "just play the game".

[cp176]

So you define "softness" as "not following authority" or "exercising free agency." And "strength" as "following orders" and maybe the good old days of being essentially the property of an owner? That may be good ideology for plantation owners, or even the general of a standing army. But I don't think it should apply to modern businesses like sports. I agree with you that managing employees, teaching, coaching--all those things are more difficult now than they may have been 50 or 60 years ago.

 

Where did this post even come from? Plantation owners - really? Please don't read something in to my comments that just isn't there. Notin does that already lol. I believe that respect is earned and often it is confused as fear for those who really are soft in my estimation. The good ones understand what discipline is all about and actually want to see it enforced. I am so sick of people doing this - read it for what it is do not twist the meaning of very simply stated words. Actually I do not think that times have changed all that much. the most successful people and coaches still believe in may of the same ways of doings things that were done long before I became involved.

[moonslav59]

You can rent it with Prime for $1.99.

 

Done.

[moonslav59]

Thank you - The landscape of professional sports has certainly changed over the years. Entertainment in general has taken on a societal role I think that I just do have a had time with. I like what Bird said - "just play the game".

 

Agreed.

 

When you see the money Oprah rakes in, it's hard to single out sports stars for making too much.

 

It is what it is.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

Where did this post even come from? Plantation owners - really? Please don't read something in to my comments that just isn't there. Notin does that already lol. I believe that respect is earned and often it is confused as fear for those who really are soft in my estimation. The good ones understand what discipline is all about and actually want to see it enforced. I am so sick of people doing this - read it for what it is do not twist the meaning of very simply stated words. Actually I do not think that times have changed all that much. the most successful people and coaches still believe in may of the same ways of doings things that were done long before I became involved.

 

I recently read a magazine article predicting that major league baseball is in trouble because the majority of fans are over 50 years of age. The article was published in 1970.

[moonslav59]

I recently read a magazine article predicting that major league baseball is in trouble because the majority of fans are over 50 years of age. The article was published in 1970.

 

So, their over 100, now!

 

WOW!

 

[notin]

I recently read a magazine article predicting that major league baseball is in trouble because the majority of fans are over 50 years of age. The article was published in 1970.

 

Did they mention bosoxmal?

[jad]

Where did this post even come from? Plantation owners - really? Please don't read something in to my comments that just isn't there. Notin does that already lol. I believe that respect is earned and often it is confused as fear for those who really are soft in my estimation. The good ones understand what discipline is all about and actually want to see it enforced. I am so sick of people doing this - read it for what it is do not twist the meaning of very simply stated words. Actually I do not think that times have changed all that much. the most successful people and coaches still believe in may of the same ways of doings things that were done long before I became involved.

 

It came from you calling professional athletes "soft" and "overpaid boobs." Those are your "simply stated words."

[mvp 78]

Did they mention bosoxmal?

 

I still haven't heard back from him after reaching out.

[notin]

I still haven't heard back from him after reaching out.

 

I hope he was just too bored with the Sox this season to bother posting...

[mvp 78]

I hope he was just too bored with the Sox this season to bother posting...

 

He's 95 and maybe can't check his email anymore?

[notin]

He's 95 and maybe can't check his email anymore?

 

He has stated many times his eyes have been failing him. I kept trying to turn him on to Zoom Text, but for all I know, he was already using it...

[mvp 78]

@Rotoworld_BB

Dick Williams steps down as Reds' team president

 

Will the Sox be making a call?!?!?!?!?!?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[notin]

@Rotoworld_BB

Dick Williams steps down as Reds' team president

 

Will the Sox be making a call?!?!?!?!?!?

 

To do what?

[mvp 78]

To do what?

 

It was a joke about the Dick Williams discussion earlier in the thread.

[notin]

It was a joke about the Dick Williams discussion earlier in the thread.

 

LOL

 

And for the record, different Dick Williams.

 

The former manager passed way 9 years ago. This one is his son...

[mvp 78]

LOL

 

And for the record, different Dick Williams.

 

The former manager passed way 9 years ago. This one is his son...

 

Yes, that's the joke. We already discussed that the original Dick Williams is safely socially distanced 6 ft from everyone...

[notin]

Yes, that's the joke. We already discussed that the original Dick Williams is safely socially distanced 6 ft from everyone...

 

And his condition is not contagious...