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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, December 03, 2011NYBD: Silva: The Wild Ride of Bobby Valentine and Steve PhillipsAnother…Greatest Sports Argument Of All Time!
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Posted: December 03, 2011 at 03:39 PM | 14 comment(s)
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1. cHiEf iMpaCt oFfiCEr JEdoes this mean on the team plane? or do they mean that the team believes that any ballplayer's wife has no right to drive/fly to any city she wants and watch any ballgame she wants and spend the nights with her husband in his hotel room? seeing as how they don't make major leaguers share hotel rooms any more.
how is it any of their damm business what someone who is not employed by the team does with her own time and money?
Because they think that one player's wife will be watching what goes on during road trips, and they suspect she'll report back to other players' wives about what she saw them doing. The last thing they want is to be bringing some . . . um, lady they picked up at a bar or strip joint and be seen with her by Mrs. Olerud in the hotel lobby on the way up to their room.
So of course, Phillips sided with the man-whores.
There is, of course, no way on earth that this is the entire story. At the time of the move there were a number of articles about Olerud choosing his hometown, and a number of nice quotes from his wife and mother about the importance of raising a grandchild near family. This wasn't all BS. And of course, I don't really believe that this single issue could possibly have been so black and white - neither that this one thing would have driven Olerud away, nor that Bobby could had fixed it simply if he were not obstructed by Phillips. Finally, money was apparently a factor, and from what I can tell the Mets would only match the Mariners' initial offer.
But the takeaway is still this: Phillips was an ass. A couple weeks later they signed Zeile for the same amount of money that they offered Olerud, which is, to put it simply, evidence of an insanely flawed system. In one of the articles I read yesterday, written a day or two after Olerud's departure, Phillips said that it was "fun" to learn that Olerud was gone, because it meant that he had to get creative in his offseason. I don't think Bobby V's story is a real smoking gun, but it's just a bit more support for my opinion that Phillips was, for unfathomable reasons, basically uninterested in retaining Olerud.
That's just one of the important lessons about baseball that Steve Phillips learned from the movie Major League.
Olerud was far from being Mike "Colorado has great schools" Hampton.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/spring-training-on-the-road-again-olerud-questions-time-1.339841
Not only that, but if one guy takes his wife along, many of the other wives are going to want to go along also. I still think it's a garbage reason.
Speaking of banging people who aren't your wife, the below is part of Herman Cain's speech giving up his shot at the nomination.
In other words, said Cain, "I'm not responsible for effing anything, but all that #### I used to do is catching up with me, and I would have gotten away with it if you pricks hadn't caught me. Damn you."
Never mind the road trips, I'm not surprised Phillips didn't seem to appreciate Olerud the player. Intelligently evaluating major league talent wasn't in Phillips' wheelhouse.
With the Mets or at ESPN? :)
Yes.
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