Sunday, March 28, 2004
TWO CENTS
This is purely supplementary to Jeremy's post below, so read that first, then come back to this one.
Jeremy pretty much covered everything, with only one other thing catching my eye from the Times article...
"Bocachica had 23 homers and 84 RBI in Triple A in 2000," the club official said. "We don't have anyone else who's done that at that level, and you have to keep that in mind." [emphasis added by me]
Who likes sweeping judgments and extrapolations from anomalous happenings and/or small sample sizes? The Mariners certainly do. Scott Spiezio (couple at-bats in the World Series), Raul Ibanez (a few at-bats against in Safeco Field against Freddy Garcia, who by the way, he won't be facing this year), Rich Aurilia (one year a lot better than the others), Quinton McCracken (see Aurilia, except the bad years are beyond horrific), and now Hiram Bocachica (see above quote referring to happenings from four years ago and this year's spring training, which is spring training) have now given all of us reason to believe that I could show up in a random Mariner tryout camp, spray a couple line drives into the gaps, hustle like hell even though I'm slow, maybe dive for a few balls, and I could be your newest Seattle Mariner.
I'm up too late once again, but I'm going back to Ellensburg tomorrow, which in a ghastly note was the origin of a statewide Amber Alert hours ago after an 11-month-old infant was snatched from her grandmother's shopping cart at the Safeway where I shop constantly. Not good.
Jeremy pretty much covered everything, with only one other thing catching my eye from the Times article...
"Bocachica had 23 homers and 84 RBI in Triple A in 2000," the club official said. "We don't have anyone else who's done that at that level, and you have to keep that in mind." [emphasis added by me]
Who likes sweeping judgments and extrapolations from anomalous happenings and/or small sample sizes? The Mariners certainly do. Scott Spiezio (couple at-bats in the World Series), Raul Ibanez (a few at-bats against in Safeco Field against Freddy Garcia, who by the way, he won't be facing this year), Rich Aurilia (one year a lot better than the others), Quinton McCracken (see Aurilia, except the bad years are beyond horrific), and now Hiram Bocachica (see above quote referring to happenings from four years ago and this year's spring training, which is spring training) have now given all of us reason to believe that I could show up in a random Mariner tryout camp, spray a couple line drives into the gaps, hustle like hell even though I'm slow, maybe dive for a few balls, and I could be your newest Seattle Mariner.
I'm up too late once again, but I'm going back to Ellensburg tomorrow, which in a ghastly note was the origin of a statewide Amber Alert hours ago after an 11-month-old infant was snatched from her grandmother's shopping cart at the Safeway where I shop constantly. Not good.
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