Subj : Re: World Series
To   : Joe Siegler
From : Steve Quarrella
Date : Thu Jan 03 2002 10:31 am

->> Hopefully, he picks up where he left off when they reconvene
->> in a few months, although if I was the Diamondbacks, I'd be
->> making him watch those films of his WS appearances.  "Here's
->> what you were doing wrong, kid."
 JS> I think Kim might be more of a headcase if the Diamondbacks
 JS> had LOST the series.  The fact that they won it would go a

If Brenly had put him in, I see no reason why outing #3 would have been any 
better than the first two.  The guy was just not effective.  He needs to go out 
there and kick some serious ass in the spring, if only to recover a bit of 
self-confidence.

->> Joe and I can tell you about a certain loathed football coach
->> who won a Super Bowl here after a team was assembled for him
->> (although his predecessor had some success in the Super Bowl,
->> too).
 JS> Brenly won with a team that was mostly constructed for him.

Sounds like that football coach I mentioned, doesn't it? :-)

 JS> same that Showalter had.  I suspect that change was made
 JS> because of personalities, and behind the scenes stuff we're
 JS> not privy to.

And in the case of that football team, the change in personality went the 
-other- way. :-)

 JS> That was my impression.  As a Phillies fan, I was glad to see
 JS> Schilling get a ring finally.  He was also one of the cool
 JS> players who I mailed a baseball card to who actually
 JS> autographed it and sent it back!  :)

Remind me to show you that binder full of such cards that I have here.  I think 
the funniest one was the card that Tom Lasorda -rubber stamped.-  They might as 
well have kept the card. <snort!>

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