That whole thing is well worth reading. Good stuff.

Typical Posnanski.

In sense of: typically entertaining.

RTFA. The Arthur Rhodes set up and punch is top-notch.

What's SI's excuse for hiring a retard like Posnarski?

I enjoyed this article

RTFA. The Arthur Rhodes set up and punch is top-notch.

Better with Orosco.

The accountants bit was top-notch.

But in many dugouts the phone IS protected by some sort of metal encasement -- in case of terrorists, I suppose -- and this is just about as pointless and wonderful.

Hate to step on a good joke, but clearly the phones are protected from Paul O'Neill and his ilk. If you're going to let the children have bats, you must expect the furniture to get broken.

What's SI's excuse for hiring a retard like Posnarski?

WTF?

How does an operator still connect you in KC and how is there still a party line at Wrigley? Do both dugouts and both bullpens share the same line with the front office or something?

is there still a party line at Wrigley?

I believe they use pigeons.

WTF?

Worst. Troll. Ever.

I love this comment:

I've got to admit, I'm maliciously delighted that La Russa invented the intentional walk specialist in a World Series game. It's a perfect satire of La Russa's style of managing.

I think TLR is a great manager, but I did enjoy the highlighting of some his postseason career failures. He has had a lot of really good teams. I think if he didn't have the "OMG he has a law degree and is really smart and does all these crazy maneuvers and is a mad genius" aura about him, sportswriters might say he was a choke artist, at least the degree to which they say Bobby Cox should have won more titles.

"My name is Elmer J. Fudd. Miwwionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

I think LaRussa is a good manager, but the style of play that results from his machinations is unwatchable (akin to the ugly NY Knicks/Pat Riley era without the muggings.)

I enjoy reading Poz, and this one made me laugh out loud.

I don't know why, but his last couple of posts (that one and the one about baseball on Fox) have an edge his other posts don't generally have. Poz sure is a great story teller, but as with all great story tellers, most times I can figure out the plot of his posts or stories in advance. Not these times.

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This line by Pos

La Russa is the sort of man who will hire a left-handed accountant to figure credits and a righty to work out debits.

is as world class, all-time high level, no-matter-the-language-and-milieu as anything Pos has ever written.

I truly tip my hat to this phrase, which (at least) works as well in Spanish as it does in English (La Rusa es el tipo de persona que contrataría a un contador izquierdo para registrar créditos y a un contador derecho para contabilizar los débitos).

I never RTFA, but was persuaded to by the glowing reviews.
I just emailed the link to several friends. If you haven't read it by now, do so immediately.

What's SI's excuse for hiring a retard like Posnarski?



WTF?

He's the only poster I have on ignore, and did so a couple of years back. It's nice to see I occasionally show good judgment.

I just about never RTFA either but y'all have persuaded me. I maintain LaRussa was never the manager most think he is, and is not the manager he was a decade ago. A good manager with terrific staying power who is well into his decline phase. He can still paint well in broad strokes (get good years out of iffy players, for instance). Guys in their late sixties often retain that ability while losing the ability to handle tactics and details well. There's no deep story here, I don't think, just an old man who has largely lost his moment to moment acuity and is not infrequently unable to handle complex, fast moving processes.