Comments on: Why Reporters Hate Going to Fort Lauderdale….

By: GENO

GENO — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:49:03 +0000

romer-I’m not a mind reader but the body part i know you are sending is either the middle finger extended upwards or a shot at your butt.Cute.

By: romer

romer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:52:28 +0000

Dear coco:

Bah!

18 mos ago:

best bullpen in MLB
good batting average
batting champ
Mvp
Cy Young
pirhanas, in addition to
outfielders with decent HR and RBI output
Exc defensive catcher, exc backup catcher
Excellent defense.

Now we got, “Give our young starting pitchers experience” and “look for improvement” —– all after ticket prices have been raised and not spending anywhere near up to the payroll limit.

Bah!!

By: coco

coco — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:22:41 +0000

Get a clue people. It’s the middle of March. Let’s give the local team a chance to play a few games that count BEFORE we all hit the panic buttons. I enjoy the updates & inside info from La Velle, Joe & Howard. Don’t fill these blogs with so much negative comments that they won’t even want to read their own stuff. BTW, Billy Crystal should soon be a available as a pick up at DH. Or maybe we could just let Kubel have 500+ at bats for once & see what he produces. How can our young starting pitchers get experience without actually pitching in the majors? Let’s give everybody a chance to play. The players will succeed or fail. Let’s see what happens. Hopefully we will keep those that succeed & develop/acquire even more. I will be surprised if we compete this year, but if we improve as the year goes on, I will be happy. A mid-market team can not win every year. Just so we don’t pull a Pirates, Royals, Brewers or Rays decade.

By: romer

romer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:34:43 +0000

Oh, no, popbelly. I wasn’t taking it THAT way. I was just pissed in general.

But GENO has a point. So I don’t want to bitch and bitch on the blog. It’s just that with one more stud type pitcher (ace) we could make a run at the WC this year.

18 months or so ago we had the then current best team in baseball. Now we gotta wait 14 months or so more to see if we can even compete in 2009. And we aren’t even spending our payroll.

32 months is a long time to wait. And such things get Reusse crabby and he’s not afraid to let people know about it.

I’m thinking about which body shot I’m going to send GENO. Haven’t decided yet.

By: popbelly

popbelly — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:00:12 +0000

Doesn,t take much to replace a .500 pitcher, just a little luck,,,and No, Romer, never said that you were dumb,, I really quite like your Blogs,,,

By: GENO

GENO — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:50:24 +0000

mike-Reusse has been negative his whole time on the two local papers.I asked a friend who was a bad arm away from pitching for the Red Sox why he never critized other professional ball players?His obvious answer was he knew the hard work and dedication it took to be big league players.At least we have seen pictures of Reusse and Barrario to know what lack of atheletic specimens they are.Maybe if we could see pictures of all the posters on this blog,the negative comments might end