OT - 25 years ago today
- Thread starter Brian in Mesa
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"It's a good story. It doesn't make sense, to be quite honest with you. For me, what I do now as a manager, my motivation is to get back to that moment for somebody and to have them prepared for that moment and find their place in baseball history. That's the ultimate goal. Something tells me I will be a part of some moment again. I just feel it." - Kirk Gibson
Hmm, I have never sat and watched Gibson manage and thought:
You know who he reminds me of: Tommy Lasorda....
You know who he reminds me of: Tommy Lasorda....
Who gives a sh*t? Wasn't a Dodgers fan then and damn sure aint now.. Plus Gibson talks like he had 3 major strokes in his interviews..
Gibson is D'Antoni on muscle relaxers..
This fool Gibson hasn't done one thing to warrant the type of hype he gets.. He sucks.. He hit a home run for the Dodgers though.. The Dodgers.. What has he done for the DBacks?
This doesn't have anything to with UofA or ASU.. That's your own mental makeup..
Feel sorry for ya..
Uhhhhhhhhh.......I believe he did the same thing as a Tiger in the 1984 World Series......
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NL MVP (1988)
2× World Series champion (1984, 1988)
Silver Slugger Award (1988)
ALCS MVP (1984)
NL Manager of the Year (2011)
Don't care.. And your post is a pro Dodgers post..
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It was a great moment in sports even if you are too young to appreciate it.
Fool Im 38 years old.. With your old ass .. I remember that wack ****.. haha
"I don't believe what I just saw!"
And the people of LA in the cars already leaving Dodger Stadium:
"I don't believe what I just missed so I could beat traffic."
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Big deal. He's never talked out of his butt on a message board so who cares.
Steve
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Eh.. Sorry I just never cared for Gibson..
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Long time Phoenician!
I'm with you. The only thing he had going for him as a player was toughness, which he has lost as manager.
As I've posted before . . . and I'm not a doctor, but am quite familiar with people with ADD and ADHD . . . Kirk Gibson shows strong signs of attention deficit disorder.
Between telling the Press something one day and abandoning it the next as if it never happened . . . and not being able to settle on a lineup throughout Spring Training or the 162-game baseball season . . . he exhibits the symptoms.
Ballplayers should take one game and one at-bat at a time for best results.
It is up to the manager and coaching staff, on the other hand, to see the big picture and be weeks and months ahead in planning. With the exception of the starting rotation (which a manager cannot change from day to day), Gibson has not managed the big picture.
They say that superstars are not cut out to be good managers because they expect of every player what they expected from themselves and that is unrealistic. Best case in point was Ted Williams.
But it doesn't mean that fair players are automatically cut out to be good managers. Especially if they exhibit symptoms of attention deficit disorder.
So I might not say that I don't care for Gibson (although I don't like his mumbling at interviews). Rather I believe he doesn't have the managerial skills to lead a World Series contender.
Gibson was declined an extension beyond next season, just as his boss Kevin Towers. I guess the Front Office doesn't care for them too much anymore either.
