Clint Hurdle said he consulted with several people when putting together his National League batting order. Oakland GM Billy Beane probably was not one of them.
"You look at the numbers that many of these men have put up," Hurdle said. "(But) you know, I’m a big fan—I hear about OPS, OBP—I’m a big fan of G-U-T-S. I like guts."
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What do you expect from the manager of the Colorado Rockies - The Official Team of the Christian Coalition.
Well, does that mean that Audie Murphy was the greatest baseball player of all time? Or was it Sir Edmund Hillary?
Perhaps Nathan Hale would have been a Hall of Famer...
Victor Jara?
Gandhi?
I'm so sick of machismo and all the attendant bullshit. Just so fucking sick of it.
I don't know which brain-dead baseball broadcasters we'll get tonight, but I'll bet a nickel one of them quotes this pearl of wisdom.
No question.
So where's The Riot then on this team?
So where's The Riot then on this team?
They wanted to add him to the team, but Big Z said, "no we want game 1 of the World Series to be played at Wrigley.
Hurdle was big on G-U-T-S as a player, judging from his .341 OBP and .402 slugging as an OF/1B(mostly confined to less than 400 ABs over two seasons). He kept getting jobs though despite these batting averages: .206,.182,.195,.195. Now that's what i call gutsy!
He'd run through a wall for ya (which might explain the brain damage).
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