Sunday, May 19, 2013
Hochman: Dallas Green still tells it like it is
(www.philly.com)
New Green book looks to be a diamond Dallas page turner.
Read More...It is a good, lively book and it mirrors Green’s good, lively 6 decades in the game. He rips only three people, Bobby Valentine, Art Mahaffey and Gene Mauch.
“Valentine is a phony and that’s what I call him in the book,” Green grumbles, choosing to skip details of the possible backstabbing while Dallas managed the Mets.
He reveals that in the minors Mahaffey cared only about his numbers. “He didn’t root for other guys to win, because ...
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1. John Northey posted on December 18, 2012 at 09:21 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Ruben Amaro strikes me as a very silly man.
ya'know, every so often my left hand kind of cooperates and i can handle a zipper. but i don't fool myself into thinking that left hand is ever coming back completely
As long as you can still throw a good right cross.
Always wishing you the best old man. :-)
Must.
Resist.
Commenting.
Mainly because Harveys will hunt me down & shoot me with one of his self-made bullets. Hell, he probably made the gun, too.
Like Michael Young, if you adjust the bread just so in the center of the toaster slot, you will get very evenly-toasted toast.
Naw, the silly men are the Phillies fans who are excited by the Young signing.
Well the writers and yakkers seem pretty excited but I'm not so sure about the fans. Then again, when your 2012 3B savior was Kevin Frandsen with BABIPpy high BA, your expectations are set low. Young has a 75% chance of being better than any internal option. Frandsen would likely hit an empty .235 or something like that.
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