Steve Phillips Is A Moron, Just Ask Sweet Lou (And Pretty Much Everyone Else)
Gee, why did the Mets fire him?
Steve Phillips of ESPN has something stupid to say about everything when it comes to baseball. We can’t really fault him for talking about baseball, it’s his job. We can yell at him for not doing any research and talking out of his ass though. Don’t worry though, you don’t have to yell at him. Lou took care of that for us. Here are Phillips comments:
“My view is Lou doesn’t have a great deal of patience for assimilation into culture, assimilation into the team,” Phillips said. “He is just not the most patient guy around, and he tends to verbalize his frustrations in an angry way. I think that may have affected Fukudome a little bit.”
Lou’s patience notwithstanding, this comment was made without looking into the situation at all. Fear not, Lou clued him in:
“I don’t have much respect for Steve Phillips,” Piniella said after hearing the comment Monday. “Let him be around a little more and see what transpires before he makes assumptions. I’ve lost total respect for this guy. If he had something to say, let him say it to me.”
For the hell of it, let’s take a look at how impatient Lou was with Fukudome:
Piniella played Fukudome in 150 games and gave him 501 at-bats, sticking with the right fielder despite his struggles before sitting him for a brief stretch in September. Fukudome then started the first two playoff games before Piniella sat him in Game 3.
If anything Lou was TOO patient with Kosuke. I’m so sick of ESPN. I’m not saying I want them off the air, but can they at least not lie and call their people “experts”? Is that too much to ask?
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Comment from Stormin’ Norman Disciple
Time March 4, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I don’t see how Lou being impatient in the past gives Phillips a license for wild speculation. Especially when that speculation flies in the face of the facts of the situation.
Comment from real stadiums have roofs
Time March 4, 2009 at 2:10 pm
as an analyst, phillips is supposed to speculate. that’s all anybody who covers sports does, minus the handful of beat writers who simply report team news. and i don’t believe his speculation is contrary to the facts of the situation. while fukudome got plenty of at-bats, i seem to remember lou being fairly critical of him in the media during the last couple months of the season, even while continuing to play him. i think that’s what phillips’ “speculation” rested on. is it that unbelievable that pinella would walk up to fukudome’s locker, drop ass and yell “Little Boy!” at the top of his lungs, and run away?
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Comment from real stadiums have roofs
Time March 4, 2009 at 12:04 pm
so lou is the most patient guy around? and he doesn’t tend to verbalize his frustrations in an angry way?