During a Joe Torre intervew the other day...
Gemmy10
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commenting on getting Al Leiter 24 hours before Leiter pitched, Joe said he was hoping to catch "Lightning in a Bottle". I think what he meant was Leitning in a bottle.
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<< <i>commenting on getting Al Leiter 24 hours before Leiter pitched, Joe said he was hoping to catch "Lightning in a Bottle". I think what he meant was Leitning in a bottle.
He already did. That game was it.
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Steve, could not agree more. The case of another "Washed Up" pitcher:
"he one good thing that happened to me during the 1956 season was the arrival of Sal Maglie, the old enemy from the Giants. Maglie had been shuffled off to the Cleveland Indians in the middle of 1955, and the Indians were letting him go at cut-down time. Sal's listed age was thirty-nine. His back was chronically stiff. Obviously he was all washed up. Obviously we were witnessing another example of good instinct for publicity. Maglie in the Enemy Camp, a great two-week story. After which the Dodgers could quietly hand Mr. Maglie his release and let him fade into oblivion.
All Mr. Maglie did was win thirteen games for us. All won for us was the pennant.
We caught Milwaukee right at the end of the season, with Sal pitching a no-hitter against the Phillies to put us in a tie with four games to go. Four days later he and Labine won both ends of a double-header on the final day of the season to give us the pennant. The no-hitter was something special. I can remember Sal sitting by his locker afterward, toward the end of his career, talking about how he had always wanted a no-hitter and had given up all hope."
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/main/article/malcolm_2002-08-26_0/
<< <i>My take on the yanks and leiter? he may very well be the spark they needed.
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How pathetic is it that a team with a $200 million payroll, a pitching staff of what, $80 million + needs a 'spark'?
Absolutely, completely, abysmal.
Even multi-millionaire pitchers get injured during the course of a year. LOL
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<< <i>My take on the yanks and leiter? he may very well be the spark they needed.
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How pathetic is it that a team with a $200 million payroll, a pitching staff of what, $80 million + needs a 'spark'?
Absolutely, completely, abysmal. >>
It is pathetic, isn't it? Someone else here said yesterday - it will be fun to watch the Yanks "scratch and claw" their way to the pennant. Scratch and claw? For that kind of money, the team should be a juggernaut running through the competition - instead of stumbling and bumbling around the .500 mark.
<< <i>Even multi-millionaire pitchers get injured during the course of a year. LOL >>
All teams suffer injuries...blaming the spanks woes on injuries is bad, bad, bad.
<<t is pathetic, isn't it? Someone else here said yesterday - it will be fun to watch the Yanks "scratch and claw" their way to the pennant. Scratch and claw? For that kind of money, the team should be a juggernaut running through the competition - instead of stumbling and bumbling around the .500 mark.>>
OK. With the Yankees $200+ Million payroll they should be 50 games above .500 but with the Red Sox payroll being the 2nd, over $100 Million+, they should be 25 games above .500.