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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. says his interest in becoming a manager is growing nine seasons after retirement.
Ripken, a two-time Most Valuable Player who played in a record 2,632 straight Major League Baseball games, said in 2007 that he would consider returning to the sport as a manager or coach after his teenage children were grown. His daughter, Rachel, is now in college and his son, Ryan, is a sophomore in high school.
“I valued that time frame and I wanted to be there, and I’m starting to think about it a little more now,” Ripken said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.” “When my boy goes off to college, if there’s a time to come back to the game, maybe that’s the time.”
Trembley! You have roughly 3 years at most, then you are ....ah crap, I already used the “D word” this week….
(grabs thesaurus)
You are RUUUUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEED!
Gamingboy
Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:51 PM | 31 comment(s)
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1. Gamingboy Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:02 PM (#3475806)"Skip, I think I tore a ligament in my leg."
"Go out and play a few innings, we'll see how it feels later on."
Oh, this is a good one. Was it Frank Robinson? I think it would be Frank Robinson.
EDIT: I now know the answer. It's this dude. One note about his career as a manager: Every season he managed, he was also a player. I would guess no one in any sport was ever a player/manager as long as he was. It also explains his nickname.
Edit: Make it 1970.
I must be missing something subtle in the wording of Rich's question, because this one was a no-brainer for me ...
No way. Off the top of my head, there's Cap Anson (formerly the all-time win leader among ALL managers, not just HoF players who managed), Fred Clarke, Frank Chance, Joe Cronin, and Bill Terry. My guess would be Anson.
(checks).
Eh, it's Clarke. (may as well give the answer - I did already list him as a guess). Anson is second. Then Cronin. Then Jennnigs, Boudreau, Frisch, Frank Robinson, Schoendienst, Chance, Terry, Hornsby, Speaker, Duffy, Walter Johnson, Ewing - and then Yogi Berra, just five wins ahead of Ty Cobb.
I was damned positive it wasn't Pete.
Don't you mean weeks?
This kind of attitude is how we get stuck with the Joe Bucks of the world.
A .402 winning percentage makes for a pretty good manager?
The top eight in games managed without a playoff appearance:
1. Jimmy Dykes 2962
2. Clark Griffith 2918
3. Ned Hanlon 2530
4. Frank Robinson 2203
5. Harry Wright 2145
6. Paul Richards 1837
7. Jimmy McAleer 1658
8. Patsy Donovan 1597
Only Wright never managed in Baltimore or Washington.
Cal has softened up in his old age.
I stand corrected.
In our age of automated information snarfing, headlines appear without context everywhere. And this article is in BusinessWeek and provided by Bloomberg, so its audience is already focused on an industry other than sports, where "manage" has a distinctly different meaning. Seems reasonable to me.
"... its audience is already focused on an industry other than sports, where "ménage" has a distinctly different meaning. Seems reasonable to me."
Also, Bloomberg wanted to distinguish it from yesterday's headline:
Billy Ripken Says His Desire to Ménage à Trois Is Growing
There are 27 people with manager in their title at the Ripken Baseball Group; none of them are named Ripken.
If Cal wants to manage a team, he should start with the IronBirds, GreenJackets or Stone Crabs and dress in a suit and straw boater.
Well that all depends on who he managed, dunnit? Do the '87 Orioles look like a good team to you?
Technically, no. At that time the BBWAA didn't have a manager of the year award (they didn't until 1983), and the Sporting News award was for the Major League manager of the year, which went to Gil Hodges (natch). Williams did win the AP AL Manager of the Year award in 1969, but that wasn't an "official" award. If we include that AP award, Williams and Bob Lemon (who won the AL award in 1978, two years after his HoF induction) also are answers to Rich's question.
-- MWE
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