Tuesday, December 16, 2003
TRANSCRIPTS...SCENE MISSING
If my tape recorder had worked, I would have transcribed the segment this morning that KJR's Mitch Levy had with Mariner GM Bill Bavasi this morning, but something messed up with the recorder, I don't know what.
[update/correction -- (accompanying ESPN message board thread) was supposed to be linked to THIS post, and NOT the FOLLOWING post...sorry if anyone got confused)]
Basically the main points were that Garcia has an "outside chance" of being with the rotation next year. Bavasi said people were wrong in saying that non-tendering Garcia would be equal to letting him walk for nothing because they'd still have his money freed up, which is basically a trade in his eyes -- Garcia for money. Mitch afterward said he wasn't satisfied with the answer he got (or didn't get) when he asked about the possibility of going after Nomar Garciaparra, which Bavasi was very mum on. Bavasi also basically said that he believes Scott Spiezio can be an everyday (150 games or thereabouts) third baseman. This despite, as Steve Sandmeyer suggested afterward, Spiezio has played 134 career games as a third baseman and had only a 40-game stretch last year where he did play 3B when Troy Glaus was out. Bavasi also suggested he has made moves, or will have moves go down in the next couple days, which will substantially improve the offense. He also suggested, though, that the rest of the hitters that are already there need to improve upon last year.
I want to shoot myself. Asking for improvement out of all of those guys is like asking for 2001 to happen all over again, and with moves like Quentin McCRACKenpipe and Scott Spiezio, it's not gonna happen. With a declining and no-power John Olerud, it's not gonna happen. With a Raul Ibanez coming into a park that will sink his stats, it's not gonna happen. Bavasi, as the radio guys pointed out, didn't leave inside the realm of possibility the chance that Boone could actually do WORSE than he did last year.
If anyone was lucky enough to get a recording of that segment this morning, or at least hear it...you were probably as flabbergasted and dumbfounded as I was.
Next, a transcript from a few months ago...
[update/correction -- (accompanying ESPN message board thread) was supposed to be linked to THIS post, and NOT the FOLLOWING post...sorry if anyone got confused)]
Basically the main points were that Garcia has an "outside chance" of being with the rotation next year. Bavasi said people were wrong in saying that non-tendering Garcia would be equal to letting him walk for nothing because they'd still have his money freed up, which is basically a trade in his eyes -- Garcia for money. Mitch afterward said he wasn't satisfied with the answer he got (or didn't get) when he asked about the possibility of going after Nomar Garciaparra, which Bavasi was very mum on. Bavasi also basically said that he believes Scott Spiezio can be an everyday (150 games or thereabouts) third baseman. This despite, as Steve Sandmeyer suggested afterward, Spiezio has played 134 career games as a third baseman and had only a 40-game stretch last year where he did play 3B when Troy Glaus was out. Bavasi also suggested he has made moves, or will have moves go down in the next couple days, which will substantially improve the offense. He also suggested, though, that the rest of the hitters that are already there need to improve upon last year.
I want to shoot myself. Asking for improvement out of all of those guys is like asking for 2001 to happen all over again, and with moves like Quentin McCRACKenpipe and Scott Spiezio, it's not gonna happen. With a declining and no-power John Olerud, it's not gonna happen. With a Raul Ibanez coming into a park that will sink his stats, it's not gonna happen. Bavasi, as the radio guys pointed out, didn't leave inside the realm of possibility the chance that Boone could actually do WORSE than he did last year.
If anyone was lucky enough to get a recording of that segment this morning, or at least hear it...you were probably as flabbergasted and dumbfounded as I was.
Next, a transcript from a few months ago...
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