charlie browned
09-05-2001, 03:55 PM
Entertaining reading about the Carmines in the Boston Globe today:
''Obviously, only certain guys on this team can say something, because their futures here are solid enough,'' Hatteberg said. ''Those are the guys who can speak out. The rest of us, if we speak out, the next thing you know, we're hauling garbage."
Hatteberg, who figures he's at the end of what has been a 10-year run in the organization, has abandoned any pretense of caution. For that reason, he gave free expression to how dimly he views this organization.
''I can't imagine anything worse than what's going on now,'' Hatteberg said. ''It's been chaos the whole year, and when Jimy left, it just took a sharp dropoff in everything.
This was a team that once prided itself on its unity and chemistry.
''We survived on that for a long time,'' Hatteberg said, ''but there's only so much stress you can take. That chemistry has been tested big-time.''
''But you just can't keep functioning like this. I'm surprised we did as well as we did for as long as we did.''
Hatteberg wasn't holding out much hope that things will change any time soon.
''It depends on whether the same people are here. If the same people are in charge, they'll stay the course.''
Hatteberg said that he hopes by next season, he'll be playing somewhere else.
''If you took a poll in this clubhouse,'' one teammate said, ''there would be 25 guys who felt the same way. Well, except for the young guys. They don't know any better. But this is the worst place I've ever been.''
Hatteberg is gone.
He's always hit well against the Sox in Comiskey--he'd be an improvement over Josh Paul.
''Obviously, only certain guys on this team can say something, because their futures here are solid enough,'' Hatteberg said. ''Those are the guys who can speak out. The rest of us, if we speak out, the next thing you know, we're hauling garbage."
Hatteberg, who figures he's at the end of what has been a 10-year run in the organization, has abandoned any pretense of caution. For that reason, he gave free expression to how dimly he views this organization.
''I can't imagine anything worse than what's going on now,'' Hatteberg said. ''It's been chaos the whole year, and when Jimy left, it just took a sharp dropoff in everything.
This was a team that once prided itself on its unity and chemistry.
''We survived on that for a long time,'' Hatteberg said, ''but there's only so much stress you can take. That chemistry has been tested big-time.''
''But you just can't keep functioning like this. I'm surprised we did as well as we did for as long as we did.''
Hatteberg wasn't holding out much hope that things will change any time soon.
''It depends on whether the same people are here. If the same people are in charge, they'll stay the course.''
Hatteberg said that he hopes by next season, he'll be playing somewhere else.
''If you took a poll in this clubhouse,'' one teammate said, ''there would be 25 guys who felt the same way. Well, except for the young guys. They don't know any better. But this is the worst place I've ever been.''
Hatteberg is gone.
He's always hit well against the Sox in Comiskey--he'd be an improvement over Josh Paul.