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Monday, December 15, 2008
As a spittoon hugging old-timer used to say to me at the shop…“My only wish is to die with a wrench in my hand.”
Free-agent shortstop Omar Vizquel wants to play at least one more season before ending a Major League career that includes 11 Gold Glove Awards and three All-Star Game appearances.
“I feel really good and I don’t want to retire knowing I can be a little better than I was last season,” the 41-year-old Vizquel said from his home in Issaquah, Wash. “I don’t have anything yet, but I want to play and my agent has been talking to a couple of teams. I can’t tell you who they are.”
Vizquel, released by the Giants at the end of the season after batting .222—the lowest since he batted .220 for the Seattle Mariners during his 1989 rookie season—said he would prefer to stay in the National League.
“I just know the league after playing there for the last four years, so it would be good for me to stay in the National League,” he said.
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1. xanthan Posted: December 15, 2008 at 10:36 PM (#3029719)Wow....imagine how he'd hit against pitchers he's not familiar with.
Me too. Man, I really enjoyed watching that cat play in the field during his prime. But when it's over, it's over.
He's the kind of player who would probably thrive in Japan, and have a pretty decent year. I'd love to see him do that.
I don't want to
Give it up Viz
Cause it is what I was born to do"
Get it done, KT.
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