We can exile Sammy Sosa without forgiveness yet hire Manny Ramirez as player/coach?

[diavolos]

Insults? Lol. Like I said. I am done conversing with you on this subject.

lol. is this the fourth or fifth time you are done conversing now? but it is probably hard to be done with something you never started doing as to have actually conversed with me on the subject you would have had to provide your own professional analysis that was requested that you have repeatedly ignored.

 

[beckdawg]

Don't get me wrong, Manny carried one hell of a bat. He may be able to help the kids.
But after reading about the new FOs', inches thick manual, about doing things the "Cub Way". Does this not feel like desperation?
Again, Manny raked !

Manny hits the way the front office wants. That's what he'll be teaching. Again I could see this argument if you said he was also going to be teaching fielding but I don't see that as the case.

 

[wklink]

If Manny can help this team hit then he is worth every time. I personally don't care about his past transgressions as long as they remain in the past.

Like him or not he was probably the best pure hitter in the game 10 years ago and if he has the ability to teach that hitting skill to players then he is valuable.

Sammy Sosa may not have that teaching ability. I also don't think Sosa was the pure hitty Manny Ramirez was. Yes, i'm sure that his abilities were, ahem, 'enchanced' during that period but he still had a natural ability to hit a baseball and Theo must think that he has the ability to pass on this ability to younger players. Otherwise there would be no sense in the hire.

 

[chibears55]

Manny hit a 450 foot HR in first game as player coach yesterday

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[nwfisch]

Yet he couldn't help with the MLB roster.

 

[chibears55]

Yet he couldn't help with the MLB roster.

Isnt he like 40 ? I wouldn't be surprise if he a Sept call up though

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[nwfisch]

Isnt he like 40 ? I wouldn't be surprise if he a Sept call up though

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Theo said he isn't playing at the MLB level for the Cubs...but still

It's pretty sad a 40 year old in AAA has more power than most of our MLB roster as currently constructed :lol:

 

[Diehardfan]

Theo said he isn't playing at the MLB level for the Cubs...but still

It's pretty sad a 40 year old in AAA has more power than most of our MLB roster as currently constructed :lol:

Makes perfect sense to me. He's probably the only one pumped up on steroids. Bring in Sosa to be 1st base coach and the two of them can bash homers and give each other injections....now, that's what you call team work.

 

[chibears55]

Theo said he isn't playing at the MLB level for the Cubs...but still

It's pretty sad a 40 year old in AAA has more power than most of our MLB roster as currently constructed :lol:

Yea but thst goes to show how great a player he was, even at 40 he can rocket a fastball. Plus yea he in AAA but he no minor lge player

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[Mr. Cub]

That's awesome! I would love to see Manny in a Cubs uniform. Even if it's for half the year.

 

[chibears55]

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[Icculus]

A career .300+ hitter is not fundamentally sound? God I'd love to have a lot more unfundamentally sound players. As for laziness, I've already addressed that. As for selfish, as I've said before, if the front office gets any wiff of him negatively impacting any players he's going to be gone just as quick as he was hired. So yeah that's being ridiculous.

At the plate, yes. In the field, absolutely not.

 

[FirstTimer]

I won't be providing you anything of the sort. You haven't demonstrated yourself to be worthy. I asked you to describe what a good swing looks like. Instead of describing the actual swing, you described elements of personal style that allow the player to load/unload with power. It means you don't know jack. You should look for elements of his swing from toe touch to contact and then also explain why waving the bat in his hands before he even lifted his leg was really bad. IOW, you're in over your head.

Edit: YT Video analyzing Manny's swing. The person analyzing this swing is likely Don Slaught. The voice sounds like him. Just so you know...16 years MLB experience. .283 lifetime BA. He is known as a guru in the hitting instruction community and his company sets up a lot of the video systems that allow you to get your hands on MLB swing videos.

[video=youtube;4e7p6nvA6po]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e7p6nvA6po[/video]

A swing guru only hitting .283? LOL.

/troll post.

 

[Parade_Rain]

A swing guru only hitting .283? LOL.

/troll post.

I'm glad you qualified that as a trolling effort. Lau hit .255 in 11 seasons. Hriniak - 2 years, .253 avg. Williams - 19 years, .344 avg. Heck, for that matter, check this out-

Pirates' Byrd credits high school coach with revamping his swing

Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/pirates/4654618-74/byrd-swing-season#ixzz33sFrQ71x

 

[zack54attack]

DAT BAT FLIP.