Fisk calls out Yaz

Sheamaster

Going through some things and found this article..the date is cut off but it was from Fisk's rookie season so it's likely 1972... "maybe huge salaries have something to do with a player's attitude"....kind of interesting.

WinPitcher

Interesting how things have changed, yet have stayed the same.

Steve

BunchOBull

Yes, same problem, different dollar amount.

edmundfitzgerald

Fisk should have said, "Just Yazzy being Yazzy."

EchoCanyon

Didn't Fisk once have words with Deion Sanders for not hustling (and Deion was on the OTHER team).

onlyanumber

<< <i>Didn't Fisk once have words with Deion Sanders for not hustling (and Deion was on the OTHER team). >>



Yep, when Fisk was with the White Sox, he screamed at Deion for not running out a pop up or something...

CDsNuts

I believe "Run it out, you piece of s**t" was the phrase he used.

GDM67

As much as they respected his play and skills, many of Carl Yastrzemski's teammates over the years never thought too much of him personally. He was often seen as selfish. Add to that the fact that Fisk always had that flinty, Calvinist Vermonter attitude about things and, well...there you go.

Coolest thing about this: Fisk is a rookie. Yaz is the superstar of the team, the main mover of the legendary Impossible Dream season of '67, a triple crown winner and MVP and still, Fisk just blows him up in public like that. Not to get attention for himself or to be a jerk, but because he thinks it's true.

I always liked Pudge

DrJ

It is interesting that even in those days teammates were aware of what each other made. I wonder if Fisk had jealousy of Yaz's salary (in addition to wanting him to play harder).

WeekendHacker

And they both wound up in the HOF. YAZ is one of my all time favorite players, and I really believe that the Sox never should have let Fisk go. Well, at least Fisk is wearing the big B on his HOF plaque. As far as Fisk's reputation: I've always preached to my kids, there are a few things that people can never take away from you, effort, intensity and attitude............You and only you control them, ALWAYS keep them going in the right direction and you’ll rarely have a problem.

storm888

"...I've always preached to my kids, there are a few things that people can never take away from you, effort, intensity and attitude..."


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Warren Buffett usually gets credit for this one - though he admits it
is hundreds of years old. I know it is old because my grandfather
told my father, and my father told me:

"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.
And, if they don't have the first, the other two will destroy your business."


Buffett's actual contribution to the quote is believed to be:


"........And, if you think about it, it's true. If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy."

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