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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Kid From Seattle…Yum Yum Eat’em Up!
They read the rampant speculation they’ll soon be fired, hear the talk shows calling for their heads and see the concern on the faces of friends and family.
Baseball managers John McLaren of the Seattle Mariners, Willie Randolph of the New York Mets and Ned Yost of the Milwaukee Brewers have had recent reassurances and support from their bosses, but winning is the only element guaranteed to spare them from the proverbial hot seat.
“It’s not a real good feeling knowing there’s a target on our back,” McLaren said Monday in a telephone interview. “I don’t even read the computer anymore. Those blogs will eat you up, no matter what.
“My God, we know we’re better than this (18-33). But I don’t make excuses. I accept it. I’ve always been a fighter, and I will keep on fighting.”
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1. The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L)Edit- Pedro is scheduled to start on June 3rd.
I can't stand your snark. Here we have a manager willing to acknowledge that computers exist, and you immediately rip him. You make me sick.
Anyway, I think most of us knew the Mariners were overrated coming into the season, but who knew they were going to be this bad? The last week and a half is probably one of the worst stretches of baseball of the last few decades. At least tonight they scored some 9th inning runs and only lost by 2.
As a Felix fantasy owner, I send a hearty FU to Mac. As a fan of an AL West rival, I say, keep on keeping on, big guy!
It's kinda odd how blogs get singled out now as somehow being overly harsh and critical yet the stuff being said is nothing more than has always been expressed on talk radio or at the ballpark. I guess it's because the blogs have a permanent record of everything that's said and you can see it all at once.
He meant that literally. To many people, "blogs" are man-eating wolf-like creatures.
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