Perhaps McLaren was aware of the recent 25th anniversary of The Tirade to End All Tirades. Perhaps the Mariners need to hire Lee Elia.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
What the #@$&?!
As profanity-laced screeds go, it was merely OK. Sure, John McLaren's outburst will make the rounds on SportsCenter and get onto youtube, if it hasn't already. But like the man himself, the blowup was lacking something -- let's call it conviction. McLaren was trying to talk himself into believing he was firing his team up as he was blurting out the words. But he's too nice a guy for shit like this; it had an "aw, shucks" quality to it. Worse, it was contrived. I sense he's tried these lines out on his mirror. At least when an NBA coach or MLB manager purposely gets thrown out of a game to fire his team up the home crowd is behind him. Here, you had a roomful of sports reporters who probably high-fived each other because they had just rolled on a future ESPY winner for Soundbite of the Year (category: lame-duck managers). Sadly, it's just another area where John McLaren is overmatched.
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This is really the overlooked quote of the day: "They may not know how to play the game well, they may not know how to hold each other accountable, they may not know how to fight hard."
That's Bill Bavasi.
"I built this team. I filled it with guys who don't know how to play the game well, who don't know how to hold each other accountable. Why I haven't been booted out on my ass, I'll never know," he should have added, but did not.
Whoa, MF, that was a prescient post. Looks like Elia has been named the M's new hitting coach. We can only hope someone gives him a microphone.
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