Sunday, October 29, 2006
Grab Some Bench
Since when does a baseball manager need a bench coach? Is in-game strategy so complex that the manager can't figure this stuff on his own? For 100 years, managers such as Connie Mack, John McGraw, Sparky Anderson and Lee Elia got by without the benefit of a bench coach. Of course, Lee Elia may have needed a clubhouse coach, but that's a different matter entirely.
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I think you missed the obvious in considering the early (golden) age of baseball when strategy was essentially recognizing whether you could sleep with the cheerleader groupie in Cleveland while taking a swig of Molson and if such behavior will affect your ability to throw 93 consecutive fast balls.
The bench coach does play an integral role on the team. Not only does he keep the players on the team loose with old stories of groupies he used to sleep with in Cleveland whilst swigging beer, he is "managing" the majority of the team, the benchwarmers. The actual manager has it easy since he only needs to make sure the lineup card adds up to nine and there are no repeats. Kind of like the catcher who only needs to work on his finger signals.
I've got a couple of finger signals for you, by the way.
I think your story lacks some basis in fact. There was not any Molson swigging in Cleveland until some time in the 1970s, well after the golden age of baseball. If anything, they were downing a Hudepohl.
Hudepohl? I seriously doubt that a Jerry Koosman or Walter Johnson or Frank Chance would be caught with something so proleteriatian! That's more of an Old Style community than something that sounds like the secret International Police Organization. Perhaps, you were insinuating that they were Free Masons? But I don't think they had cocaine then either.
Actually, back in day, masonry was pretty expensive, along with everything else. And in those days, beer was beer and women were women. Men were men, too, but I'm not sure if pluto was a planet or not.
But back to beer; there was no need for "premium" brands like Heineken, or even Michelob. Real men - and real women - drank BEER. Plain old ordinary BEER with names like Hudepohl and Meister Brau and Schlitz and Blatz and on and on.
and probably threw up everywhere which led to the creation of mortar mix. Actually, if I catered to your theory then I would assume everyone was blitzed out of their minds and wouldn't have time to procreate. I believe they drank responsibly and instead partaked in more all-american beverages like coca-cola, you commie. Why in the world would they drink something that sounds like it was manufactured in a 3rd world economy? It was that day that all Masons became Free!
I know that Perry Mason was free because his show was on TV before the advent of cable.
I don't know about Perry, but I'll bet that Ham Berger guy could really pound down the brewskys.
I think he lived next to the Mason-Dixon line which was named after him and the late president, Richard M. Dixon who later freed the slaves.
I think you have your historical facts all screwed up. Perry Mason was the inventor of the Mason Jar that he used to give away for free. Thus the beginning of the Free Masons. As a result, he made very lidle money.
No No No! Now you're confusing yourself. You must mean Jackie Mason who was mistakenly arrested because of his unCANny resemblance to that controversial comic, Lenny Bruce. That led to a campaign to Free (Jackie) Mason who was imprisoned at the time! In fact, Bruce Lee eventually and courageously volunteered to take Jackie's place in prison where he remained until his timely death which sparked the Bruce Springsteen success story.
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