Friday, February 13, 2004
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT?
I think Bill Bavasi and the Mariners can file a lawsuit over this -- the Saint Louis Cardinals are totally ripping off the Mariners' strategy here; they are bringing back two retreads. Getting their welcome back to the Gateway City (or at their their spring camp in Florida) are Ray Lankford and John Mabry (back for his third stint with the Cards). Lankford has simply been crap since the Cards fleeced the Padres in that Woody Williams-for-Lankford deal. John Mabry's been crap for a couple years now. But now it's time to play "say that word five times really quickly." The word? Jocketty.
Derek Lowe saw the Curt Schilling signing and took it to mean one thing: either he or Pedro was going to be shown the door after the season. To sum the article, Lowe has been able to put on 15 more pounds and actually work out early this year, as opposed to last year, when he had the skin cancer on his nose. I learned that Derek Lowe is a Scott Boras client. I don't think it's a stretch to say Derek Lowe could be a Mariner next year -- Lowe is a former Mariner and Boras is buddy-buddy with Bill Bavasi (meaning he can rob him blind). Lowe notes that his first two starts are in Baltimore, where he will prepare to face the wrath of Miguel Tejada for the crotch gesture during the ALDS last year.
Then Lowe ends it with the following...
When Lowe watched the Super Bowl, he said the Patriots reminded him of the Yankees that reeled off four World Series titles in five years (1996-2000). "You knew they were going to win," he said. "Like when the Yankees were winning those World Series, no matter what happened, those SOBs were going to win."
That is not how it feels around the Sox, he agreed.
"I think you create your own luck, but the Red Sox have such a bad history in the playoffs, I think people almost get talked into it, talked into something bad is going to happen . . . There's definitely something about the Red Sox as far as the playoffs go. They find a way to lose. "There's only one way to change that. I think the front office did real well this offseason. You can look at it one of two ways. Either they're going for broke this year, or it's going to blow up next year."
I wish the quote would have included the words or gestures with which he actually "agreed" that "that is not how it feels around the Sox." Just that, the one-guy-will-go talk, and the last quote that this'll be the year or they'll blow it up...it doesn't seem to me that these are very wise things to be saying. It almost seems like a defeatist attitude to me, but what do I know? I woke up an hour ago after getting to bed about 3:30 last night.
Derek's got one year to build up his clubhouse intangibles so he can sign with the Mariners next year for three years, $96 million.
Derek Lowe saw the Curt Schilling signing and took it to mean one thing: either he or Pedro was going to be shown the door after the season. To sum the article, Lowe has been able to put on 15 more pounds and actually work out early this year, as opposed to last year, when he had the skin cancer on his nose. I learned that Derek Lowe is a Scott Boras client. I don't think it's a stretch to say Derek Lowe could be a Mariner next year -- Lowe is a former Mariner and Boras is buddy-buddy with Bill Bavasi (meaning he can rob him blind). Lowe notes that his first two starts are in Baltimore, where he will prepare to face the wrath of Miguel Tejada for the crotch gesture during the ALDS last year.
Then Lowe ends it with the following...
When Lowe watched the Super Bowl, he said the Patriots reminded him of the Yankees that reeled off four World Series titles in five years (1996-2000). "You knew they were going to win," he said. "Like when the Yankees were winning those World Series, no matter what happened, those SOBs were going to win."
That is not how it feels around the Sox, he agreed.
"I think you create your own luck, but the Red Sox have such a bad history in the playoffs, I think people almost get talked into it, talked into something bad is going to happen . . . There's definitely something about the Red Sox as far as the playoffs go. They find a way to lose. "There's only one way to change that. I think the front office did real well this offseason. You can look at it one of two ways. Either they're going for broke this year, or it's going to blow up next year."
I wish the quote would have included the words or gestures with which he actually "agreed" that "that is not how it feels around the Sox." Just that, the one-guy-will-go talk, and the last quote that this'll be the year or they'll blow it up...it doesn't seem to me that these are very wise things to be saying. It almost seems like a defeatist attitude to me, but what do I know? I woke up an hour ago after getting to bed about 3:30 last night.
Derek's got one year to build up his clubhouse intangibles so he can sign with the Mariners next year for three years, $96 million.
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