Viva Magglio
04-27-2003, 04:45 PM
I just got back from a nice vacation in South Florida where I missed a whole week of White Sox baseball. I did watch last night's game because the place in Florida where I stayed has WGN. I liked how we won last night, but the rest of the week for me was just plain uneasy.
I am sure the bad losses to Cleveland, Baltimore, and Minnesota on Friday have been adjudicated in this forum forwards and backwards two-fold. My general thought was that the way things went, I was expecting Jerry Manuel to finally get whacked on Monday. Obviously, this good weekend may have erased any danger Manuel may have been in.
I did not get home in time to see today's game, but I heard Jesse Rogers speculate on the radio that Manuel got himself ejected in response to the media questioning his leadership. I am sure this has been debated already, but why wansn't Manuel more defensive of Jon Garland after Bruce Froemming ejected him last night? If I were the manager, I would have gotten all over Froemming and gotten myself ejected in defense of my pitcher. And did we protest the game in Baltimore in which Joe Crede was robbed of a home run by a missed call? With video proof that the call was wrong, wouldn't a protest have given us a chance there? And I will not waste time talking about Manuel's use of Tom Gordon, even though he pitched good last night.
Outside of that, I went to two Marlins games at Pro Player Stadium. I was at the Wednesday game against Milwaukee and the Friday one against St. Louis. As I kept looking toward the Teal Tower in left field to see how bad we were doing, I noticed that Jeff Torborg has the Marlins playing with a lot of heart. Even in their 9-2 loss to St. Louis, the Marlins never quit. On Wednesday, the Fighting Fish rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the eighth inning and went on to win the game in twelve innings.
And I would be remiss if I did not mention the Choice in All His Brewer Glory in my Marlins piece. His Royceness actually had quite a few good defensive plays against Florida, but his at bats were quite reminiscent of ones he had against us.
Finally, it was nice being away from here for a week. No Moronotti. No Mike North. Instead, I got to listen to SportsRadio 560 QAM (http://www.wqam.com/temp_home.htm) whose hosts seem to make more sense of things as opposed to the hosts on our sports talk station.
I am sure the bad losses to Cleveland, Baltimore, and Minnesota on Friday have been adjudicated in this forum forwards and backwards two-fold. My general thought was that the way things went, I was expecting Jerry Manuel to finally get whacked on Monday. Obviously, this good weekend may have erased any danger Manuel may have been in.
I did not get home in time to see today's game, but I heard Jesse Rogers speculate on the radio that Manuel got himself ejected in response to the media questioning his leadership. I am sure this has been debated already, but why wansn't Manuel more defensive of Jon Garland after Bruce Froemming ejected him last night? If I were the manager, I would have gotten all over Froemming and gotten myself ejected in defense of my pitcher. And did we protest the game in Baltimore in which Joe Crede was robbed of a home run by a missed call? With video proof that the call was wrong, wouldn't a protest have given us a chance there? And I will not waste time talking about Manuel's use of Tom Gordon, even though he pitched good last night.
Outside of that, I went to two Marlins games at Pro Player Stadium. I was at the Wednesday game against Milwaukee and the Friday one against St. Louis. As I kept looking toward the Teal Tower in left field to see how bad we were doing, I noticed that Jeff Torborg has the Marlins playing with a lot of heart. Even in their 9-2 loss to St. Louis, the Marlins never quit. On Wednesday, the Fighting Fish rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the eighth inning and went on to win the game in twelve innings.
And I would be remiss if I did not mention the Choice in All His Brewer Glory in my Marlins piece. His Royceness actually had quite a few good defensive plays against Florida, but his at bats were quite reminiscent of ones he had against us.
Finally, it was nice being away from here for a week. No Moronotti. No Mike North. Instead, I got to listen to SportsRadio 560 QAM (http://www.wqam.com/temp_home.htm) whose hosts seem to make more sense of things as opposed to the hosts on our sports talk station.