Tuesday, September 30, 2003
THIEL IS ON FIRE
Do yourself a favor and go get the Art Thiel book entitled "Out Of Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle."
Today's P-I article features some comparisons between the Mariners and Giants.
It features such jewels as this excerpt...
In the Aug. 11 edition of Sports Illustrated, Giants general manager Brian Sabean explained the rationale for acquiring the best available starting pitcher on the trading block, Sidney Ponson, when the Giants were already ahead a dozen games.
"We owed it to everybody," Sabean said. "This is just a reward for how hard our players fought to get us in this position, and it's important to let them know we've got our eyes on the prize. It's an older team, and there's only so many opportunities to crest the wave."
Said the Giants' Marquis Grissom: "The move is outstanding. That's what good teams do, they go and get somebody even though they're 12 games up."
For anyone who has been around the Mariners, such a move by Lincoln would be considered virtually unthinkable.
Today's P-I article features some comparisons between the Mariners and Giants.
It features such jewels as this excerpt...
In the Aug. 11 edition of Sports Illustrated, Giants general manager Brian Sabean explained the rationale for acquiring the best available starting pitcher on the trading block, Sidney Ponson, when the Giants were already ahead a dozen games.
"We owed it to everybody," Sabean said. "This is just a reward for how hard our players fought to get us in this position, and it's important to let them know we've got our eyes on the prize. It's an older team, and there's only so many opportunities to crest the wave."
Said the Giants' Marquis Grissom: "The move is outstanding. That's what good teams do, they go and get somebody even though they're 12 games up."
For anyone who has been around the Mariners, such a move by Lincoln would be considered virtually unthinkable.
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