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From: HTP on 3 Oct 2009 23:19 On Oct 2, 5:03 pm, John Kasupski <w2...(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:37:03 +0000, John Kasupski > > > > > > <kc2...(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote: > >On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:30:26 -0400, "Bob Braun" <oxin...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>Don't discount LaRussa in a short series. > > >I've never thought he was a very good in-game tactician. He overmanages > >preposterously, and I wish I had a $5 bill for every time I've seen him shoot > >himself in the foot (so to speak) over the years. This is especially true of how > >he handles his bullpen. > > >Against that...he does know when it's time to go get his starting pitcher. > > >Where he really excels, though, is in getting the best performance out of his > >players day after day, inning after inning. His players play for him. If they > >don't, then they stick around St. Louis very long. Just ask Rolen. > > >While I'm on the subject of the Cardinals - it's hard to question Homer Bailey's > >work late this season and say it's because he's pitched against teams like the > >Pirates after tonight, when he limited the division champs to one run over seven > >innings, striking out seven while walking only one. He even had himself a base > >hit. He's now 5-1, 1.89 in his last eight starts. > > >Remember a few months ago when Danny was insisting the Reds needed to stick > >bailey in the rotation and let him pitch? Well, after Volquez got hurt, that's > >pretty much what they did, and now we're seeing the results. > > >OK, two of the Ks were Piniero (who, incidentally, really looked like Bob Gibson > >out there for the Cardinals tonight serving up a pair of dingers to Jay Bruce > >and giving up seven runs in six innings of work). But he fanned Holliday to end > >the first with a runner in scoring position, fanned DeRosa with runners on > >second and third to end the fourth and rang him up again to end the sixth, and > >the only run he allowed scored on a sac fly by Albert The Great. > > >This season has sucked for a lot of us, but some day a few years from now when > >he's just blanked the Cubs to win the final game of the NLCS for the Reds, we > >may look back on it someday as the year that Homer Bailey came of age as a major > >league pitcher. > > >JK > > Judging from this Esquire article by Charles P. Pierce, I'm not the only one who > isn't convinced of TLR's supposed genius: > > http://www.esquire.com/the-side/opinion/tony-la-russa-playoffs-100209... > A paragraph in, i realized 2 things. A 13-year-old wrote the article, and magazines are probably better off dying out.
From: John Kasupski on 4 Oct 2009 02:03 On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:19:53 -0700 (PDT), HTP <tmbowman25(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Oct 2, 5:03�pm, John Kasupski <w2...(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:37:03 +0000, John Kasupski >> Judging from this Esquire article by Charles P. Pierce, I'm not the only one who >> isn't convinced of TLR's supposed genius: >> >> http://www.esquire.com/the-side/opinion/tony-la-russa-playoffs-100209... >> > >A paragraph in, i realized 2 things. A 13-year-old wrote the article, That "13-year old" was born December 28, 1953 and graduated from Marquette University in 1975 as a journalism major. He has written for the alternative press, including Worcester Magazine and the Boston Phoenix, and was a sports columnist for The Boston Herald. He was a feature writer and columnist for the late sports daily, The National. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times Magazine, the Nation, the Atlantic and The Chicago Tribune, among others. He is a frequent contributor to the American Prospect and Slate, appears weekly on National Public Radio's sports program Only A Game and is a regular panelist on NPR's game show, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. Since July 1997 he has been a writer at large at Esquire, and in April 2002, he joined the staff of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Charles Pierce is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors. On several occasions, he was named a finalist for the Associated Press Sports Editor's award for best column writing. He was a 1996 National Magazine Award finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease "In the Country of My Disease," and has expanded the piece into a book Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story for Random House. In 2004, he won a National Headliners Award for his Globe Magazine piece, "Deconstructing Ted". He has appeared in Best American Sportswriting more times than any other writer except maybe Roger Angell, and his sportswriting has been anthologized in Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game. He was awarded third place in the PBWAA Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. When he won Phone Jeopardy, Alex Trebek sent him a plaque. What are your credentials? >and magazines are probably better off dying out. Well, since I happen to write for a magazine myself - bite me! JK
From: tom dunne on 4 Oct 2009 03:33 On Oct 4, 2:03 am, John Kasupski <w2...(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:19:53 -0700 (PDT), HTP <tmbowma...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >On Oct 2, 5:03 pm, John Kasupski <w2...(a)spamfilter.verizon.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:37:03 +0000, John Kasupski > >> Judging from this Esquire article by Charles P. Pierce, I'm not the only one who > >> isn't convinced of TLR's supposed genius: > > >>http://www.esquire.com/the-side/opinion/tony-la-russa-playoffs-100209.... > > >A paragraph in, i realized 2 things. A 13-year-old wrote the article, > > That "13-year old" was born December 28, 1953 and graduated from Marquette > University in 1975 as a journalism major. He has written for the alternative > press, including Worcester Magazine and the Boston Phoenix, and was a sports > columnist for The Boston Herald. He was a feature writer and columnist for the > late sports daily, The National. His work has appeared in the New York Times > Magazine, the LA Times Magazine, the Nation, the Atlantic and The Chicago > Tribune, among others. He is a frequent contributor to the American Prospect and > Slate, appears weekly on National Public Radio's sports program Only A Game and > is a regular panelist on NPR's game show, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. Since July > 1997 he has been a writer at large at Esquire, and in April 2002, he joined the > staff of the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. > > Charles Pierce is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honors. On > several occasions, he was named a finalist for the Associated Press Sports > Editor's award for best column writing. He was a 1996 National Magazine Award > finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease "In the Country of My Disease," > and has expanded the piece into a book Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story for > Random House. In 2004, he won a National Headliners Award for his Globe Magazine > piece, "Deconstructing Ted". He has appeared in Best American Sportswriting more > times than any other writer except maybe Roger Angell, and his sportswriting has > been anthologized in Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters > Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game. He was awarded third place in the > PBWAA Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. When he won Phone Jeopardy, > Alex Trebek sent him a plaque. This article still comes across like a total hatchet job. There's plenty of reason to dislike LaRussa without this silly argument that he's *only* won two World Series. That's more than every active manager except Joe Torre, and LaRussa never had King George's checkbook to back him up. I think winning titles is just as much about luck as anything else, but if it really is the skill of the manager that matters, LaRussa won his last World Series with a team that won just 83 games - that was the most overachieving team in postseason history. LaRussa is an egomaniac and as sore loser, but that doesn't mean he's not a good manager. I was also a bit turned off by the "Starfuckers" joke. Rather crass, even for Esquire.
From: john smith on 4 Oct 2009 10:16
My main beef with Larussa, is it always seems to be about Tony. His countless pitching changes get a little ridiculous after awhile. |