Monday, January 12, 2004
SLOGAN AND MORE
I heard something great on the Groz and Gas Show today on KJR. Mike Gastineau referenced an LA Times article (registration required) which bore what he thought the new slogan for the 2004 Mariners should be.
YOUR 2004 SEATTLE MARINERS -- WE'LL SHOW UP AND GIVE THEM A GOOD RUN.
Some easter eggs from that article...
If Buzzie Bavasi, [Harry] Dalton's successor as general manager, hadn't suddenly drawn a financial line amid a personality spat and refused to make Nolan Ryan baseball's first $1-million-a-year player after the 1979 season, prompting Ryan to depart as a free agent and leaving Bavasi to forever call it his biggest mistake, Autry's tormented Angels might have won a World Series with Grich and Baylor in '82 and another with Grich in '86.
Letting Nolan Ryan go in or possibly before his prime? I'll be damned if the bad decisions don't run in the Bavasi family. Yippee!!
Now, the slogan part in context...
[Angel owner Arte] Moreno and General Manager Bill Stoneman have assembled a World Series-caliber team that can be said to boast the deepest pitching in baseball and potentially the strongest lineup.
Bill Bavasi, the former Angel general manager who holds a similar position with the division rival Seattle Mariners, didn't put it that way Sunday, but he said:
"I think everyone was picking them to win the division even before they [acquired Guerrero], and he certainly doesn't hurt their chances. Given how good this guy is, I don't think he'll have any problems adjusting to a new team and a new league — unfortunately — but we're not conceding. We're very happy with our team. We plan to show up and give them a good run."
It doesn't stop there, kids!!
"Am I surprised by the way Moreno has gone about it?" the Seattle GM said. "Not really. It's different for a single owner who doesn't have a board of directors or a corporation [to whom] he has to answer. He can wake up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll have a Guerrero for breakfast,' and he does.
"Is he done? I guess so, but then I thought he was done before [signing Guerrero]."
Could it be that the GM of our favorite baseball team is dumb, helpless, AND spineless?
SEATTLE MARINERS BASEBALL -- WE'LL SHOW UP AND GIVE THEM A GOOD RUN.
I want to die.
YOUR 2004 SEATTLE MARINERS -- WE'LL SHOW UP AND GIVE THEM A GOOD RUN.
Some easter eggs from that article...
If Buzzie Bavasi, [Harry] Dalton's successor as general manager, hadn't suddenly drawn a financial line amid a personality spat and refused to make Nolan Ryan baseball's first $1-million-a-year player after the 1979 season, prompting Ryan to depart as a free agent and leaving Bavasi to forever call it his biggest mistake, Autry's tormented Angels might have won a World Series with Grich and Baylor in '82 and another with Grich in '86.
Letting Nolan Ryan go in or possibly before his prime? I'll be damned if the bad decisions don't run in the Bavasi family. Yippee!!
Now, the slogan part in context...
[Angel owner Arte] Moreno and General Manager Bill Stoneman have assembled a World Series-caliber team that can be said to boast the deepest pitching in baseball and potentially the strongest lineup.
Bill Bavasi, the former Angel general manager who holds a similar position with the division rival Seattle Mariners, didn't put it that way Sunday, but he said:
"I think everyone was picking them to win the division even before they [acquired Guerrero], and he certainly doesn't hurt their chances. Given how good this guy is, I don't think he'll have any problems adjusting to a new team and a new league — unfortunately — but we're not conceding. We're very happy with our team. We plan to show up and give them a good run."
It doesn't stop there, kids!!
"Am I surprised by the way Moreno has gone about it?" the Seattle GM said. "Not really. It's different for a single owner who doesn't have a board of directors or a corporation [to whom] he has to answer. He can wake up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll have a Guerrero for breakfast,' and he does.
"Is he done? I guess so, but then I thought he was done before [signing Guerrero]."
Could it be that the GM of our favorite baseball team is dumb, helpless, AND spineless?
SEATTLE MARINERS BASEBALL -- WE'LL SHOW UP AND GIVE THEM A GOOD RUN.
I want to die.
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