Garrett Jones on The Fan: "I wasn't mentally ready before."
Garrett Jones discusses why it took him so long to be successful in MLB with Seibel and Starkey. A great interview that shows him to be a down-to-earth guy who has his head on straight.
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MarkInDallas
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My favorite part of the interview
His quote about Pedro Alvarez: “He’s got stupid power.”
Awesome.
"Straight ball I hit very much, but curveball, bats are afraid." - Pedro Cerrano
I get stupid drunk.
And eat stupid pizza.
by IAPiratesFan on Feb 24, 2010 2:07 AM EST up reply actions
?
Were you thinking about pizza, or dreaming about eating it?
If you were longing for pizza I think MmmMmMm would be better than Hmmmm
I love/hate The Fan.
The Good: They do a good job of mixing great interviews with really stupid callers.
The Bad: Aren’t there any non-stupid callers to this station?
Some guys figure it out late. Garret Jones may be one of those guys. MAn that would be awesome. I wrote him off as a flash in the pan guy but if he can play at 2/3 the level he did last year for a full season, man that would be sick. The grind will get to him, and to Cutch, it will be interesting to see how they deal with it.
I just want to be able to download a show through iTunes like I do Stan & Guy…instead it is some embedded player to play clips or download them in MP3 format.
Just give me the show…is that too much to ask?
Well speaking of the fan and sports radio in general one thing’s for sure. We’re going to have to listen to people talk about/complain about/make fun of Coonely’s "dynasty’ remark for the next few days (at least). Not that it wasn’t a silly remark, but oy vey the frothing it’s already causing is remarkable. The Pirates aren’t allowed to show even the slightest bit of overoptimism. Oh well, they’ve brought it on themselves I suppose.
Too much is being made out of the dynasty comment...
but it was a poor word choice in as much as this reaction was easily predictable. Ultimately, I expect more from the best management team in baseball, let alone all of sports.
Good day.
I loved his choice of words. All the better if he truly believes it too. I remember after the Steelers won the superbowl in 2005 the USA Today wrote “this is a team that goes into training camp every year with the goal of winning the superbowl…and they mean it”. I know high hopes does not equal winning, but setting substandard goals guarantees that you can’t win. I don’t think anyone reached the world series looking to just go .500. Lofty dreams will eventually yield to lofty expectations.
As I posted to Smizik's blog...
I like it. It reminds me of Chuck Noll’s statement at his first press conference after being hired to coach the Steelers: “Who wants to be respectable? That’s spoken like a true loser. Forget that respectability stuff. We’re aiming for a championship now.”
I gives Smizik a chance
To dust off one of the rough drafts he didn’t use from a previous column and insert latest statement from Nutting/Coonelly/Huntington that he can’t wrap his mind around.
by MarkInDallas on Feb 24, 2010 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
You do get the impression
that Smizik expects Nutting to berate the management team and players to open Spring Training and then lead a procession of falling on swords from the owner down to non-roster invites. . . accountability and all
by chicos_pants on Feb 24, 2010 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
I hate to say it, but Coonely sounded baaaaad on the radio just now. And not the good bad. The bad bad
From the way its gone since their hiring
everyone in the front office needs to take a PR course. I cringe almost every time any of them talk.
That doesn't clarify much
since you neglected to explain if the first bad in “bad bad” is the good bad or the bad bad.
by WestCoastBuc on Feb 24, 2010 3:20 PM EST up reply actions
The first bad is the bad bad. So it’s the bad bad bad. Or is that the bad bad bad bad? Or before I confuse myself more I’ll just put it in simpler terms: he kind of sucked.
Even I think he should lay off the “dynasty” talk at this point, because it’s only going to make him look like a joke to most Pirate fans.
by Adam Reynolds on Feb 24, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
I really think Jones will struggle this year. At the same time, I really hope I’m wrong on that thinking.
Personally I look at Jones as being kind of a “found money” situation. I don’t think he was ever really part of the plan, but we’ll certainly take him if he’s playing like he did last year. If he ends up coming back to Earth, then I think we have to be OK with moving on to players who really were part of the plan in the first place.
I’m ecstatic with the way he played last year and would be so even more so if he kept that up, but on the other hand if he doesn’t end up really being that guy, then I’m not going to be too broken up if they move on.
He needs to make the second adjustment. Until then, last year was a fluke.
by Designated Hitter on Feb 24, 2010 2:21 PM EST reply actions
Speaking of performance rationalizations, anyone buy that Moss will show more power this year because he couldn’t lift lower body weights last season because of the knee injury in late 2008? I’d rather find out than have Ryan Church get the 400 plate appearances, but I guess it’s not a big deal.
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