Hitting Coach or Dr. Phil?
Oh fercrissake
Maybe if you bake them cookies, Lenny?
FIRE HIS FARKING ASS!!!
"[The hitting] hasn't picked up like I thought it would pick up," [pathetically over-matched hitting coach Lenny] Harris said. "It is a mystery to me. The whole offensive team went from doing well to searching for a base hit. I guess that is a part of baseball. You live and you learn.
"It could be personal reasons and could be something [that made them angry]. I try to talk to each and every one of them [on an individual basis]. I ask them, 'Are you OK? Are there any problems at home.' They tell me they are fine. Those are my guys and I ask them how do they feel. 'Don't go out there and press. Go out there and have fun. There is no pressure on you guys.'"
Maybe if you bake them cookies, Lenny?
FIRE HIS FARKING ASS!!!
posted by Chris Needham at
9:35 PM
27 Comments:
One positive to take away from the game:
Our pinch hitters put up this line:
3/3, 1 R, 2 RBI
Mackowiak got a hit!!!!!!
Before today, our pinch hitters were 3 for 48, that's a .063 average. That's beyond ugly. You'd think one of the best pinch hitters would be able to pass on the secret to his players... Oh wait, it's Lenny Harris we're talking about.
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Anonymous, at 4/21/2008 9:55 PM
i just can't read anything Ladson writes anymore.
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Dave Nichols, at 4/21/2008 10:14 PM
so we are suggesting a 2 birds with 1 stone firing here. "Lenny, leave the door open and ask Jimbo to speak inside on your way out".
Imagine going to your boss and saying "It is a mystery to me" that profits are way down and expenses way up. FIRED!
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Anonymous, at 4/21/2008 10:20 PM
40-and-122, gents. 40-and-122.
You read it here first.
We run the bases like Helen Keller on crack.
Chico goes to Columbus by Thursday.
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Anonymous, at 4/21/2008 11:57 PM
Totally agree. His answers about "it being a mystery" and suggesting the players have personal issues is enough to get most people fired at real jobs.
The other thing I cannot figure out is why he blames "the young guys." Who is he talking about? Besides Milledge and Zimmerman, just about everyone else is a vet now. Guzman, Lopez, Kearns, Nick, Loduca, Belliard, Harris, Mackoviak, Estrada are all vets.
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Anonymous, at 4/22/2008 12:52 AM
It's just completely farking amateur. If you don't know why things bad, then you don't know what's going to make them good, then you deserve to be fired. It's called coaching! You see what's wrong and you fix it! And I thought the Expos were a joke.
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Anonymous, at 4/22/2008 1:54 AM
Not impressive at all. Lenny is paid to fine-tune athletes and the practice of their skill and he's talking about feelings, admitting that he's clueless.
Fire Lenny!
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Kevin, at 4/22/2008 7:41 AM
On Bowden and "what's another GM gonna do" from the last post. The answer, in the short term, is to readjust expectations, correct the record from Bowden's hype and tell the fans that we're bad now but we have a plan and stick with us... and then actually do that.
I of course agree that MLB deserves the lion's share of the blame for the miserable lack of talent in this organization. We're trying to build a gleaming metropolis but are starting with the bombed out remains of Fallujah.
But the reason Bowden needs to go (other than the fact that *someone* needs to get fired here, and it really shouldn't be Manny, and Stan and Ted aren't going to fire themselves) is that he's not the man for this job. I don't hate Bowden because I actually think he was a good choice for GM on a team with no scouting budget and a shoe-string salary cap. He's a scavenger and turned up some diamonds in the rough. You have to give him credit for bringing us Soriano and Dmitri for next to nothing. Those were fun little surprises, and given the way the franchise was living under the boot of Monopolist League Baseball, pleasant surprises (and a generally bad team) were about the best one could have hoped for.
Bowden's not the guy to build a team from the draft for long-term success. He's the quintessential anti-Plan GM. He's always trying to get that one extra piece to round out a winner, as if he was running the Chicago Bulls circa 1991. He has no track record of player development through the draft. It's like hiring Dusty Baker to manage a team of prospects (oh wait, the Reds did that--why is MLB so incompetent? could it be they need some healthy market competition to keep them honest?).
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Steven, at 4/22/2008 8:45 AM
Speaking of killing 2 birds with one stone....
There once was an Indian who had only one testicle, and who's given name was 'Onestone.'
He hated that name and asked everyone not to call him Onestone.
After years and years of torment, Onestone finally cracked and said,
"If anyone calls me Onestone again I will kill them!"
The word got around and nobody called him that any more.
Then one day a young woman named Blue Bird forgot and said, "Good morning, Onestone."
He jumped up, grabbed her and took her deep into the forest where he made love to her all day and all night. He made love to her all the next day, until Blue Bird died from exhaustion.
The word got around that Onestone meant what he promised he would do.
Years went by and no one dared call him by his given name until a woman named Yellow Bird returned to the village after being away.
Yellow Bird, who was Blue Bird's cousin, was overjoyed when she saw Onestone. She hugged him and said, "Good to see you, Onestone."
Onestone grabbed her, took her deep into the forest, then he made love to her all day, made love to her all night, made love to her all the next day, made love to her all the next night, but Yellow Bird wouldn't die!
What is the moral of this story?
You can't kill two birds with one stone!!....
But you can fire Lenny Harris!!!!
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Anonymous, at 4/22/2008 9:36 AM
Each baseball team will lose 60 games, each will win 60 games. It's those 42 remaining games that decide the winners and losers.
However, in the case of the Washington Nationals those numbers require adjustment.
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Anonymous, at 4/22/2008 10:20 AM
"Bowden's not the guy to build a team from the draft for long-term success."
That's a worthy discussion point. But before we act in haste, let's ask: How involved was Bowden in achieving the (by all accounts fantastically successful) results of the '07 draft?
Would another GM have made things happen differently? More successfully? Less successfully?
I'm not a Bowden apologist, but think carefully before you answer.
... And, if Bowden goes, whom do you promote? Rizzo? Brown? Someone else?
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Ironic Goat, at 4/22/2008 12:32 PM
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Ironic Goat, at 4/22/2008 12:34 PM
From The wapo-
"Harris, who collected more pinch hits than any other player in history, also drew clear distinctions between what he sees going on with the Nationals and what he experienced during his career. "I had mentors," he said. He's not sure the younger Nationals do.
"I had baseball guys who felt for the game," he said. "When we came out, we already felt that we were going to win the ballgame. . . . It's hard for me to speak for them. All I can do is see and watch them play, and I see a difference already, because our attitude on the bench was different. Every team we played for, we were always encouraging, always in the game. This is like a different environment now. We got a whole bunch of young kids."
Really? He had mentors? He had baseball guys telling him about the game? You mean like coaches? You mean like hitting coaches telling him about the game and how, in the game, to hit baseball? That kind of mentor?
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Ironic Goat, at 4/22/2008 12:37 PM
Hendo--I'm just looking at 1 playoff appearance in 14 seasons as a GM, and thinking maybe this ain't our guy.
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/general-managers/jim-bowden.shtml
I'm also just looking at what Bowden's done and listening to what he's said. He's talking about winning now while Kasten's talking about the Plan. He's re-signing Belliard and Dmitri while it's clear they have no role to play on the next great Nats team.
Plus, I really just think there's a lot of value in the new regime bringing in their own people. As far as I know, Kasten and the Lerners had no real relationship with Bowden, and it's hard to imagine a situation where that kind of accidental marriage will work.
Keeping Bowden always just seemed like a lazy or cautious act of inertia, and there's no reason at this point not to move on and bring in someone the Lerners and Kasten picked themselves.
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Steven, at 4/22/2008 1:02 PM
Of course, my desire to replace Bowden in no way conflicts with the reality that Bud Selig and Monopolist League Baseball is primarily to blame for the current state of the franchise.
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Steven, at 4/22/2008 1:04 PM
Huh. That's a new position for you?
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Chris Needham, at 4/22/2008 1:05 PM
Isn't being the all-time leader in pinch-hits kind of a dubious distinction, as in he was around how long and couldn't crack a starting lineup?
And what the deuce is Wily Mo doing crying in the locker room after going 0-4?? What are these guys, fucking 12?
Somebody needs to mold him into Serrano from Major League; sacrificing chickens and shit.
"It is very bad to steal JoBu's rum....VERY bad!"
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Rob B, at 4/22/2008 1:27 PM
SB - I hear you. I'm just a little cautious about adopting an "Anyone But Bowden" approach.
Could we do better? Very possibly.
Could we do worse? Absolutely. For every Brian Cashman and Theo Epstein, there's at least one Cam Bonifay or Chuck LaMar.
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Anonymous, at 4/22/2008 4:14 PM
The Mets are getting the bejeezus whacked out of them again by the Cubs. That should have them in a good mood for the Nats tomorrow!
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Anonymous, at 4/22/2008 5:25 PM
Nevermind! JimBo's plan is finally working! All is forgiven!
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Steven, at 4/22/2008 10:02 PM
Chris--I always thought that Kasten and the Lerners should have brought in their own guy. For the cohesiveness of the organization alone, I don't like holdovers.
I've only recently realized just how awful Bowden's record was in Cincy. (I was a Chicagoan in the 90s, and the only sport that mattered was basketball.)
In the last week I've decided that Bowden is toast. I don't think it'll improve this year, and there will have to be a scapegoat, and I think it has to be Bowden. He's the only prominent holdover.
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Steven, at 4/22/2008 10:15 PM
This is Lenny's summary (at least according to Ladson):
"They are taking a lot of pitches because we are down four runs or five runs and [manager] Manny [Acta] tells them he doesn't want them not to swing at the first pitch," Harris said.
Does anyone understand what he's saying? First of all, does Lenny's interpretation of Manny's direction mean swing or don't swing? Second, is Lenny kind of laying this on Manny?
Finally, swinging or not swinging at the first pitch is something you leave behind around the middle of little league. The point is to take good swings at quality pitches, lay off of bad pitches, and get help -- normally in the form of coaching on functional major league teams -- learning how to tell the difference.
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