Freep -- Jim Leyland and Ron Gardenhire agree on many things. One of them is the high caliber of Jeremy Bonderman's competitiveness. "He's game-on," Gardenhire said. "We saw that a long time ago, and that hasn't changed. "Pitching through the injuries that he's had, and coming back from the surgery (in 2008), when you watch him on the mound, he's as competitive as anybody in the game."
Gardenhire has been the Twins' manager since Bonderman came into the majors as a 20-year-old with the Tigers in 2003. This season, Gardenhire has seen Bonderman in his first full season since the shoulder surgery -- and in perhaps his final season with the Tigers. "I've always really enjoyed watching this guy compete," Gardenhire said. "You'll get everything he has every time out. He may get hit, and he may not get hit. But he's not going to give in. "He's competitive. You love that in a pitcher."
So since Ron Gardenhire thinks Bondo is a competitor I'm supposed to pretend he doesn't suck? I hate this shit, the guy gets absolutely shelled in the first inning every time he goes out there but it's all good cause Jim Leyland and all the other baseball gods think he is a good guy? Give me a break. This is the major leagues, can we get some guys in here that don't hang their hat on moral victories? It's like t-ball for christ's sake, pretty soon we're gonna make sure everyone gets to bat in an inning. Somebody just go out and produce cause it's the same with everyone on this team. They all have one great year like Galarraga or Porcello or even Inge before the All-Star break and then fall off the face of the Earth once they get a little praise. If Rod Allen refers to you as a "professional hitter" your career is basically over.
Of course Gardenhire likes our pitching staff. Look at the record of the twins verse the tigers the last 5 years...they kill us every year. If I was a manager and beat a team all the time of course I would talk up the pitchers so maybe someone thinks they are too valuable to lose and they keep them around so we can beat them some more. Jim leyland record against central division teams is awful, Ozzie Guillen is going to come out and tell Leyland that he should go get Robertson back because hes such a great guy around the club house and hes a competitor.
ReplyDeleteOh and I forgot the tigers are bringing back their entire coaching staff for next year...just what we needed. Remember when Johnny Damon was looking at Boesch's film to help him with his swing cuz Lloyd couldn't figure anything out. Leyland doesn't want to get rid of any of his "boys" cuz he doesn't want to mess up his card games in the club house. He doesn't want to lose Lloyd cuz hes such an exceptional hitting coach that he's going to get that managing job that Rod Allen is always talking about. The entire coaching staff is just a bunch of yesmen to Leyland cuz they are all his buddies. Thats it for my tigers rant today unless I think of something else
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