Hitting Coach;Bonds?

So we should be expecting a couple more of these over the next 12 hours or so.

You probably saw on ESPN when he went into the broadcast booth and was talking about Manny. I didn’t think it was quite as brilliant as the commentators did, but that said is seems pretty clear that he has a knack for understanding hitting, whether analyzing himself or other players.

As for him being a jerk…I mentioned it above, but in general my understanding that that was mostly with the media (and occasionally fans). I heard somewhat mixed things from teammates, but I thought he mostly just kept to himself. I could be wrong though…

That’s it. Thread over. tim815 FTW.

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But to bring Bonds into the Cubs’ clubhouse, cold and without any previous hitting coach experience, is pretty far-fetched.

Hypothetically, if Bonds had worked somewhere as a hitting coach before the Cubs, then yes, maybe, I could understand the move. But not in the middle of a season, and not without any experience.

… long before he was “on” anything. Read “Game of Shadows” to learn how he treated his teammates at Arizona State.

Pretty stupid thing to say

pushes Aaron Miles out of the way through the wall,

he’ll work for cigar, rum.

When you disappear, chaos ensues.

it for you – I NEVER SAID THEY DON"T CARE! – OK? They are playing flat and have been playing flat for most of the season. The two post do not contradict each other. They need something to shake things up. Sometimes all it takes is a big come from behind win like they had or sometimes it’s a change in the lineup. Just something to loosen things up and get the team to play more relaxed. You can’t play well if you are squeezing the sawdust out of the bat. You just have to relax and let it go. That’s what they need.

inspiration: an inspired musician; an inspired performance.

I never meant it. Please don’t put words in my mouth and tell me what I meant. I know what I wanted to say and i said it. They were playing uninspired. That doesn’t mean they don’t care. The definition is pretty clear. Not having brillance or excellence has nothing to do with not caring. I never said why they were playing that way, just that they were. You made the leap and said that i meant that they didn’t care.

to make it any clearer. You seem to be hung up on the fact that an uninspired prson cares about what is going on, that wasn’t part of my post. We can argue on the fact of whether the Cubs were uninspired, but the definition of the word is what it is. Please spare me the lesson on what is and is not common sense.

Here is the actual definition of uninspired – uninspired (adj.) Having no intellectual, emotional, or spiritual excitement; dull. As I said before, I was making an observation on how the Cubs looked, not why. I said they were uninspired, which by definition is unemotional or dull. You chose to add that I was intimating that they looked that way because they didn’t care. That was not my intention. I have no idea why thay looked that way. They could have been out late partying or they coild have all been sick. Either way I was not speculating as to why they looked the way they looked, only that they looked that way.

to why a performance can be uninspired. Why do you assume that the only reason can be that the individual does not care? I have never said that the player do not care about the game they are playing. I am not one of these individuals who thinks that the players are over-paid bums who could care less about the fans or their place in society. Please do not lump me into that group. You will never see a postfrom me criticizing players for not caring about their chosen profession. I do not know enough about the players personal lives the speculate about their motivations for their performances. It’s not my place and I do not care to get into that type of discussion. I can only go by what I can see on the field. My observation was that the team looked flat. That’s as far as my analsis goes.

that you know the motivation of what drives a person. You can’t make that assumption because you don’t know.