Steve Phillips ineffectualness: Based on a statistics sheet from Japan, Steve Phillips, the Mets’...

Steve Phillips ineffectualness:
Based on a statistics sheet from Japan, Steve Phillips, the Mets’ general manager at the time, thought Komiyama was an experienced reliever. But Phillips misread the category Games Finished to mean saves, when it actually referred to complete games. Komiyama went 0-3 with a 5.61 earned run average (and no saves) for the Mets and went home after one year.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/sports/baseball/22mets.html

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Chalk another one on the board

for Stevey P.

Travis Hafner is made of gold

by Super Mario on Dec 23, 2009 3:34 PM EST reply actions

that was a real good article

"I only wanted a few things out of life -- a wife, children, to play baseball and to hunt deer." - Turk Wendell

by Rey-O on Dec 23, 2009 4:12 PM EST reply actions

Sounds like something Omar would do.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 23, 2009 5:10 PM EST reply actions

Naw

Omar thinks looking at stat tables is false hustle.

"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'

it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.

by Gina on Dec 23, 2009 8:44 PM EST up reply actions

Win/Loss Record, ERA, and Saves are the kinds of stats Omar likes. The ONLY ones he looks at.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 23, 2009 11:19 PM EST up reply actions

The only ones he understands?

Asking a General Manager to slim down his budget is like asking an alcoholic to blow up a distillery.

by scott from peekskill on Dec 25, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions

The ultimate facepalm?

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Dec 23, 2009 8:30 PM EST reply actions

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Dec 23, 2009 9:08 PM EST reply actions

Reminds me of a story

about an expansion team preparing for the draft. (I don’t remember which one) In order to save money, the owner traveled to the draft alone, with a list of desired players. All he had to do, he thought, was just take the first available name on the list each time they needed to pick. What he failed to realize, however, was that the list was alphabetical.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Dec 24, 2009 3:44 AM EST reply actions