Tuesday, December 23, 2003
FRENCH ACCENT
John Levesque of the P-I pretty much summarizes most of our thoughts and gets a column out of it, saying that Bavasi is lucky that the Guillen and Cirillo trades didn't go through -- Guillen's move because Vizquel is old and decrepit, and Cirillo's move because Cedeno clogs the outfield. Other than that, he speculates that maybe Justin Leone or Greg Dobbs would be given a shot at an extra infield roster spot. Levesque then says Dobbs is a possible "big bat." That's nice to get my hopes up and all, but I figure for a major daily newspaper that maybe it wouldn't be too much to ask for Levesque to throw in a nice little stat line for Dobbs. I know I'm sitting here at a computer and all and could probably pull up Dobbs' stats in 20 seconds, but if someone out there is actually reading a print copy of the P-I, different story. Levesque then uses the Cirillo/McCracken OPS argument that we've seen many times here in Mariner blogspace, followed by the generally accepted thought that even the oft-injured Guillen is probably a safer bet than the shot-kneed Vizquel. That and the fact that most of the shortstops' names that are coming up as prospective trade returns for Guillen really aren't that much of an improvement. Nothing we already don't know, in other words.
Basically, Levesque's article is a more detailed, but less eloquent and less powerful version of Larry Stone's article from yesterday.
And for those of you who wonder why these post times are so close together...with the horrible 56k here back at the 'rents house, I pull up the pages I need and then keep the browsers up after I free up the phone line (though we do have Catch-A-Call), then type my crap into Notepad, then copy and paste it. O how I long for the T1 lines (or are they T3?) back at Central...
One last thing, Jeremy's Carl Lewis post uses the phrase "Believe it." The first thing that pops into my mind with that phrase is the ghetto-'70s-looking airplane footage that runs after the South Park credits on every episode with the graphic that says "BRANIFF. BELIEVE IT!"
Basically, Levesque's article is a more detailed, but less eloquent and less powerful version of Larry Stone's article from yesterday.
And for those of you who wonder why these post times are so close together...with the horrible 56k here back at the 'rents house, I pull up the pages I need and then keep the browsers up after I free up the phone line (though we do have Catch-A-Call), then type my crap into Notepad, then copy and paste it. O how I long for the T1 lines (or are they T3?) back at Central...
One last thing, Jeremy's Carl Lewis post uses the phrase "Believe it." The first thing that pops into my mind with that phrase is the ghetto-'70s-looking airplane footage that runs after the South Park credits on every episode with the graphic that says "BRANIFF. BELIEVE IT!"
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