Now we really are Gambling (2004-2)
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:48 am
July 20th, 2004
I paced slowly around the centre of the clubhouse, speaking slowly and thoughtfully, well aware of the players trying to look disinterested lounging all round the room.
“I know you don’t want another GM, you’re fed up of new GM’s and all the upheaval they bring. I’m going to be here for a while and if you work with me … I’ll be here for a while longer. It’s really up to you. There will be change, it’s inevitable. We can’t continue being a last place club, it needs someone to come in, look at the pieces and put them together in the right way that they all fit together in the way they should do. You might need some new pieces, you might have to dispose of some OLD pieces and you might need to teach some pieces that they fit where they didn’t think they did but it has to be done.
You’re not as bad as you appear to be, you just need a bit of moulding into the right shape and you need to BELIEVE, to WORK TOGETHER. It might not come together this season or perhaps even next season. It might have to get worse before it gets better but the process has already begun. I found out how much you all disliked Crabbs and hay presto! Cured! No more Crabbs in the clubhouse. Look around! Do you see him? No, because we have to work together. If we don’t, we cannot succeed.
The tweaks are already happening, pieces are coming and going. And the signs of recovery are showing… Over the last 19 games you went 8-11. May not seem like much but that’s almost a quarter of your season’s win total achieved right here in the last month. It must continue though, Jefferey here hit five homers in the last ten games but only got five RBI, if we could have worked it better and he got 10 or 15 RBI how many of the six losses would have been wins?
It’s not just you that will suffer, the whole organisation from rookie league upwards will be shaken up. A lot of people will lose their jobs but if you have four straight losing seasons that’s what happens eventually. Someone says enough and those that can’t work, won’t work pay the ultimate price. But those who are left, those who join, those who stand up and say “We will make it work” will reap the rewards.
Thank you for the little shoots of recovery, opponents only hit .242 against our pitchers in the last 10 games, 78 struck out and our team ERA was 3.86 for the same period. If our batters show the same improvement, who knows what we can achieve? Stay with it, we can win."
I paced slowly around the centre of the clubhouse, speaking slowly and thoughtfully, well aware of the players trying to look disinterested lounging all round the room.
“I know you don’t want another GM, you’re fed up of new GM’s and all the upheaval they bring. I’m going to be here for a while and if you work with me … I’ll be here for a while longer. It’s really up to you. There will be change, it’s inevitable. We can’t continue being a last place club, it needs someone to come in, look at the pieces and put them together in the right way that they all fit together in the way they should do. You might need some new pieces, you might have to dispose of some OLD pieces and you might need to teach some pieces that they fit where they didn’t think they did but it has to be done.
You’re not as bad as you appear to be, you just need a bit of moulding into the right shape and you need to BELIEVE, to WORK TOGETHER. It might not come together this season or perhaps even next season. It might have to get worse before it gets better but the process has already begun. I found out how much you all disliked Crabbs and hay presto! Cured! No more Crabbs in the clubhouse. Look around! Do you see him? No, because we have to work together. If we don’t, we cannot succeed.
The tweaks are already happening, pieces are coming and going. And the signs of recovery are showing… Over the last 19 games you went 8-11. May not seem like much but that’s almost a quarter of your season’s win total achieved right here in the last month. It must continue though, Jefferey here hit five homers in the last ten games but only got five RBI, if we could have worked it better and he got 10 or 15 RBI how many of the six losses would have been wins?
It’s not just you that will suffer, the whole organisation from rookie league upwards will be shaken up. A lot of people will lose their jobs but if you have four straight losing seasons that’s what happens eventually. Someone says enough and those that can’t work, won’t work pay the ultimate price. But those who are left, those who join, those who stand up and say “We will make it work” will reap the rewards.
Thank you for the little shoots of recovery, opponents only hit .242 against our pitchers in the last 10 games, 78 struck out and our team ERA was 3.86 for the same period. If our batters show the same improvement, who knows what we can achieve? Stay with it, we can win."