Comments on: Quote: Willie wants to Win Games

By: dstraw18

dstraw18 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:45:21 +0000

…and i want to win the lottery

By: We Were Throwbacks

We Were Throwbacks — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:26:37 +0000

Short-sighted….right. Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, etc. The list goes on. All these guys routinely pitched 300+ innings for their careers and all of these guys are HOF’ers. You want to say it’s a different style game now? Fine, but that’s exactly the point that Mazzone was making. We are grooming these pitchers to have a mental, NOT PHYSICAL, but mental limit when it comes to pitch counts. When they are nearing 100 pitches, they automatically feel their day is coming to an end. Pitch counts are all essentially set at 100 and that’s such an arbitrary, BS number. There is no reason a pitcher can’t maintain longevity throughout a career, no less a season, if they exceeded 100 pitches. The whole logic that 100 is the magical limit for pitchers is absolutely absurd.

By: Midtown

Midtown — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:11:42 +0000

As good a pitching coach as Mazzone is, that is the most ridiculous and shortsighted thing I’ve ever heard.

While it makes sense if you’re looking at in the scope of A SINGLE GAME to go based on how good a pitcher is doing, you simply can’t do that over the course of a season. The fact of the matter is, if a guy goes good the first month or two, and you leave him out there to throw 120+ pitches, you are going to absolutely destroy his arm for later in the season. Look at Maine’s second half stats, an obvious result of not being used to the grind of a full season. Look at Sabathia’s poor start, and even Beckett. Both threw an incredible amount of innings last season due to the playoffs.

I have no problems with Peterson. Most detractors do nothing but point to his V. Zambrano comments, which is sad, because the magic this guy has worked with out pitching staff far outweighs any negatives he brings to the table.

By: ebfnyc

ebfnyc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:57:27 +0000

I know three other Slappy’s. Do you spell your name on your birth certificate Slappie? One of them spells it like that and it helps him get laid. It’s a cool twist to an already-cool name.

By: ebfnyc

ebfnyc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:55:59 +0000

I want them to hire The Hulk or somebody like Daniel Day Lewis in the movie, “There will be blood.”

Or even Wally T. Backman.

By: ebfnyc

ebfnyc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:54:21 +0000

Maybe they want to stall. Maybe they aren’t captain proactive monsters.

By: ebfnyc

ebfnyc — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:52:57 +0000

this is not a plate man.

By: Burn0820

Burn0820 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:33:30 +0000

I think you are re-TAR-ted…Nixon is left-handed and the starting pitcher was a lefty…its playing the percentages dumbass…I swear you people will find any excuse to rip on Willie Randolph…Let me ask everyone here…can you find a better mid-season replacement manager? Yeah I know I’m right…there is no body

By: Burn0820

Burn0820 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:29:11 +0000

The confidence rating is just a bullshit excuse to use Willie as a scape goat and honestly most of you people do not know anything about baseball or how the game is managed…Willie has no control over Joe Smith and Billy Wagner sucking ass for 3 straight games…he has no control over David Wright swinging at bad pitches and not going the opposite way…he has no control over Carlos Delgado’s aging slow reflexed body…it is not his fault that Yunel Escobar gave Ryan Church a concussion and Moises Alou’s best friend is the Disabled List…Did he trade for Delgado? Sign Moises Alou? Trade for El Duque? Let the leadership of Paul LoDuca go? No. He can only manage what he has to work with. You want to talk about change…then a new pitching coach and hitting coach is what is needed…anyone over the age of 35 not named Pedro or Billy should be moved, released or simply benched…players that don’t hustle should be fined
Also, did any of you Fair Weather Mets fans hate Willie Randolph when the team was winning from April 2005 till July 2007? I guarantee you all loved him so why the hate now? He has not changed…his managerial style has not changed…the players have gotten weaker and frankly a good chunk of them do not give a shit anymore because asshole fans are booing them whenever they do not get a hit…Guess what.. last time I checked the only player to get a hit even 40% of the time is Chipper Jones…so back off and deal with this shit……
I am a Willie Randolph supporter with 100% confidence.

By: TurboDan

TurboDan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:22:50 +0000

How ’bout firing Omar, Bernazard, Peterson and Howard Johnson. Keep Willie, hire Leo Mazzone as pitching coach and bring in Gary Carter as hitting coach?