Bobby Valentine Manager of the Year 2002

Last night after the Bruins game on ESPN, I had Baseball Tonight on. I really wasn’t paying attention until they started showing Yankee highlights. I love my Yankees, but sitting thru commentary from former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine is sheer hell. Maybe it’s because he lost the subway series to Torre, but he has some vendetta against the greatest sports franchise in history. Anywho, the highlights from other game kept rolling on and this is when Bobby gave his assessment of a particular pitcher, and how to play them. This is not verbatim, but here is the gist.

He basically said that a manager has to know what kind of pitchers he has on his roster, are the good in cold weather or hot, and pitch tem accordingly. So if I follow his way of managing last year, he played all his good pitchers in the cold weather and not in the hot weather. So, in April, Bobby fielded his good Met pitchers, benched them from May thru August, and brought em off the bench in September. That is wicked smart managing if you ask me. This is why he is on baseball tonight and not managing a team this year. I suppose that if things go as well as they did last year for the New York Metropolitans, then Bobby will have one up on all the other manager candidates, he’s already turned orange from the George Hamilton tanning system. Way to go Bobby!!!

NP: Over the Rhine - Lucy and the Reverend (live)
- posted by TundraBoy @ 3:29 PM