Lip Man 1
05-26-2005, 12:37 PM
For those who may be interested, Greg Couch has a column on Terry Bevington in the Sun-Times today.
Terry was an 'interesting' character to say the least.
I mentioned a few things to Greg about the story. I repost them here just FYI.
"What Terry didn't bother to tell you during his self promoting conversation was this little item....in 1996 the Sox had three players with 100 or more RBI's....they barely missed having FOUR since Harold Baines finished with 98. On June 10th on that season the Sox were 40-21 and tied for first place. Sports Illustrated had just done a story on the Sox stating that this year the Indians weren't going to run away with the division. (Picture of Tony Phillips sliding into 3rd base...)
They finished with 86 wins.
How do you spell Terry Bevington? I D I O T. He couldn't manage his way out of a toilet. (and the Sox organization was right behind him considering they used such clowns as Joe Magrane, a young Mike Sirotka, Luis Andujar and Mike Bertotti as 5th starters...sound familiar?)
As far as Terry's comments about the 'White Flag Trade,' the week it happened Sports Illustrated had a feature story on it, making the Sox the laughingstock of the nation. That story quoted both Wilson Alvarez and Roberto Hernandez as saying Bevington was 'laughing' as he told them the news that they were traded. The conversation took place in the Sox hotel room in Anaheim according to the story. Both pitchers said Bevington didn't like them and apparently was laughing because now he was 'rid' of them. Some what different from the take he gave you.
One final point just FYI regarding LaRussa. Dave Nightingale then The Sporting News' national baseball correspondent, wrote this in a feature column after the 96 season. LaRussa met with Reinsdorf and agreed to a multi year, multi million dollar deal to return to Chicago...Tony was bringing Dave Duncan with him who also supposedly agreed to a multi year, multi million dollar deal. All that was left (out of professional courtesy) was Uncle Jerry running it by 'Jumbotron' Ron Schueler (I call him Jumbotron because he was as big as the scoreboard...) Scheuler REFUSED to 'sanction' it basically telling Uncle Jerry he couldn't abide by the areas that Uncle Jerry allowed LaRussa to have (i.e. a higher payroll, and a roster stacked with veteran players--not the overhyped rookies that Ron was always touting...)
Further Schueler gave Uncle Jerry a take it or leave it deal...either LaRussa or me.
Guess who Uncle Jerry picked? End result...welcome Manager Gandhi!
Lip
Terry was an 'interesting' character to say the least.
I mentioned a few things to Greg about the story. I repost them here just FYI.
"What Terry didn't bother to tell you during his self promoting conversation was this little item....in 1996 the Sox had three players with 100 or more RBI's....they barely missed having FOUR since Harold Baines finished with 98. On June 10th on that season the Sox were 40-21 and tied for first place. Sports Illustrated had just done a story on the Sox stating that this year the Indians weren't going to run away with the division. (Picture of Tony Phillips sliding into 3rd base...)
They finished with 86 wins.
How do you spell Terry Bevington? I D I O T. He couldn't manage his way out of a toilet. (and the Sox organization was right behind him considering they used such clowns as Joe Magrane, a young Mike Sirotka, Luis Andujar and Mike Bertotti as 5th starters...sound familiar?)
As far as Terry's comments about the 'White Flag Trade,' the week it happened Sports Illustrated had a feature story on it, making the Sox the laughingstock of the nation. That story quoted both Wilson Alvarez and Roberto Hernandez as saying Bevington was 'laughing' as he told them the news that they were traded. The conversation took place in the Sox hotel room in Anaheim according to the story. Both pitchers said Bevington didn't like them and apparently was laughing because now he was 'rid' of them. Some what different from the take he gave you.
One final point just FYI regarding LaRussa. Dave Nightingale then The Sporting News' national baseball correspondent, wrote this in a feature column after the 96 season. LaRussa met with Reinsdorf and agreed to a multi year, multi million dollar deal to return to Chicago...Tony was bringing Dave Duncan with him who also supposedly agreed to a multi year, multi million dollar deal. All that was left (out of professional courtesy) was Uncle Jerry running it by 'Jumbotron' Ron Schueler (I call him Jumbotron because he was as big as the scoreboard...) Scheuler REFUSED to 'sanction' it basically telling Uncle Jerry he couldn't abide by the areas that Uncle Jerry allowed LaRussa to have (i.e. a higher payroll, and a roster stacked with veteran players--not the overhyped rookies that Ron was always touting...)
Further Schueler gave Uncle Jerry a take it or leave it deal...either LaRussa or me.
Guess who Uncle Jerry picked? End result...welcome Manager Gandhi!
Lip