The fiery veteran leadership of Carl Everett
7/26/2006 Designated DH Carl Everett for assignment, Carl leaves team
W @ Toronto
LWW @ Cleveland
WLW @ Baltimore
LLL vs Oakland
8/7/2006 Released Carl Everett
WWW vs Tampa Bay
LLLL @ Texas
LLL @ Oakland
8-12 since Carl left the team, a .400 team. With him, they were 48-52, .480
Carl Everett – the can’t-hit-at-all version – was such a great clubhouse leader, brought so much energy to the team that they were a dramatically better team with him than they are without him and getting much better offensive production from the DH.
And look at those teams they did win series against — Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Cleveland. None of them above .500. Over the whole stretch they faced sub-.500 competition ((Toronto 1 * .533 + Cleveland 3*.450 + ….)/total # of games).
Bring back Carl, folks. I don’t think anyone else has signed him yet, maybe we can make some kind of amends. Guarantee next year’s option. What’s it going to take?
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Is it already April 1?
This is reminding me a lot of the correlation between # of pirates and global temperature.
This is reminding me a lot of the correlation between # of pirates and global temperature.
(I suck and mistyped the tag. Sorry.)
“Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Cleveland. None of them above .500.” Yup. That’s the ticket. The ’06 Ms just can’t beat anything but other weak sisters. Which is why this team has never been in contention for anything.
The present funk is fundamentally the result of the players giving up any remaining illusions about the remainder of the season after the flop-out against Oakland in Safeco, and turning to consult their own individual oracles about what is best for them personally. Bloomquist full time in CF and Joel finally (mercifully) yanked from the rotation are the effective declarations by the Ms FO that they’ve thrown in the towel, too. Because the FO doesn’t really seem to have a development plan for anybody other than Felix, and they’ve over-promoted anyone who might potentially fit into the picture except, now, O’Flaherty, they have nothing to do. Except maybe a little roster churn with nonentities like Mike Morse and the Dobber which is another way of saying the same thing. *blechhh*
. . . I haven’t even read a box score, let alone listened to or watched a game since the first game in Texas: you can just see what’s coming, and I don’t have time for this kind of ineptitude.
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