Davey Johnson Advocated False Hustle

All it ever got him was a championship.

Hat tip to arnec at BtB for the link.

about 2 years ago Mark Himmelstein 15 comments 2 recs |

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He's just looking to cover his ass in case something goes wrong.

Know what I’m sayin’?

"I see the job in bigger terms. Paperwork, that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?"

by Evan_S on Dec 8, 2009 2:02 AM EST reply actions

wow

that’s awesome. I especially like that his interest started when he found a way to use the computer to suggest that he should bat cleanup. Nothing like a little self-interest to kick start a person down the road to greatness. (I’m not being sarcastic – I thought that part was hilariously awesome)

"[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 8, 2009 7:03 AM EST reply actions

Interesting prologue

The Russ Richardson mentioned in the piece (the 29 year old aide who fed Davey the stats) was charged years later for defrauding the team, creating fake invoices for tech services:

http://www.queensda.org/Press%20Releases/2002%20Press%20Releases/10-0ctober/10-03-2002.htm

by saberkeith on Dec 8, 2009 10:32 AM EST reply actions

Awesome

I’ll rec that.

by boom_roasted on Dec 8, 2009 12:57 PM EST reply actions

Silly Davey Johnson

OBP isn’t even on the scoreboard. The Mets sure have come a long way since then!

by mookstra2 on Dec 9, 2009 11:35 PM EST reply actions

It's incredibly depressing

To realize that the Mets were actually managed more progressively 25 years ago than they are now.

by CroMet on Dec 11, 2009 2:04 PM EST reply actions

but for chance....

those METS were good enough to win three in a row!!! ‘86, ’87, and ’88…..it was’nt mean to be…but I’ll still keep the 1986 Championship!!! Thankyou GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by 1969met on Dec 11, 2009 9:06 PM EST reply actions

jads;fjoeqwpfu

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

by squid92 on Dec 11, 2009 9:49 PM EST up reply actions

I'd say that's more an argument

For why you shouldn’t do cocaine than why you shouldn’t take an analytic approach to baseball.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 11, 2009 11:49 PM EST up reply actions

my dad and I always joke

that in the mid-80’s Dwight Gooden and Roger Clemens were the two most promising young pitchers in a generation, and both of them did drugs. It’s just the Mets luck that their guy was one of the last of the coke craze and Clemens got in on the steroid crazy.

by cjmulrain on Dec 12, 2009 3:08 AM EST up reply actions

Its so fitting of the perception and narrative of the whole thing too

The Mets were a wild rockstar party in the 80s, but burned out quickly, while the Yankees became a juggernaut of dominance, controversy, and shrunken testicles. Maybe I made up that last one in my mind, but its how I like to think of it.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 12, 2009 1:36 PM EST up reply actions