Read: Billy Wagner in New Yok Magazine
In today’s edition of New York Magazine, Chris Smith writes about his day following around Billy Wagner, who, according to Smith, is “honorable, defiant, and quite possibly doomed.”
Wagner, as quoted by Smith…
“Our pitching coach [Rick Peterson] has no experience talking to a bullpen. He can help you mechanically, but he can’t tell you the emotions. He has no idea what it feels like. And neither does Willie [Randolph]. They’re not a lot of help, put it that way.”
…people are using this quote to attack wagner, but i don’t understand why…i’m not sure what is wrong with it…, he’s essentially saying that neither willie nor rick understand what the pressure and is like in pitching every day from a bullpen in new york…and he’s right, they don’t…
…at any rate, in standard modern-media fashion, wagner forced himself to back-track from the comments, once learning that they would appear in the report…
Wagner, as quoted by in Newsday…
“I wasn’t trying to knock Willie or Rick because they’ve been great. As bad as we’ve played, they’ve been the most supportive coaches I’ve been around. No way was this a knock on Willie or Rick. I was referring to my experiences on the mound. It was not my intent to say those guys weren’t any help.”
