Passing along a link to an article with some good stuff. Worth checking out if you have a few minutes. My favorite part?
And that didn't just require winning over Ichiro - it required winning over the other players toward accepting Ichiro, and getting over the resentment, or friction, or whatever you want to call it, that existed last year.
"The biggest thing for us was to try to point everyone in his direction,'' Wakamatsu said. "You need to stop pointing the finger that way and say, 'This guy stayed healthy, this guy has been on the All-Star team every year, he's had 200 hits every season. You might want to cherish that and learn from it rather than mock it."
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AL Manager of the Year.
msb - July 14, 2009
He got first half manager of the year props from ESPN.
Kenny Knows Sports - July 14, 2009
Reply to the right post idiot!
Kenny Knows Sports - July 14, 2009
Its amazing the difference one year makes.
Slow Country - July 14, 2009
Heh
Why mock Ichiro when Yuni provided more than enough material? :p
But in seriousness, I can’t even find the words to express how much I love this team this year.
So that will have to do.
section331 - July 14, 2009
Now Yuni is gone, we need a new scapegoat.
LauraBu - July 14, 2009
Rob Johnson's catching?
CMC_Stags - July 14, 2009
Cedeno/Woodward!
JamMasterJesus - July 14, 2009
We will never abandon :(edeno
until his OPS slips under .500.
What’s this you say?
seattlebruin - July 15, 2009
Such a great article.
I know that the sabermetric crowd gets the rap of thinking that clubhouse chemistry and intangibles don’t exist, but I don’t think that’s correct at all. Chemistry is so hard to predict that it’s stupid to try and make moves/assemble a team based on who is going to get along, but I can definitely say that there is no way Wak has hurt the team by making sure everyone is on the same page, and there isn’t any childish bickering like last year. The hires by the FO of Wak and GMZ are seeming better every day. It’s a great time to be a Mariners fan.
Zwakamatsu - July 14, 2009
Err...gets the wrap.
Zwakamatsu - July 14, 2009
Wait
Felix has a wife and kids? How did I not know this?
calim - July 14, 2009
Lucky lady.
Slow Country - July 14, 2009
I don't know ...
here
msb - July 14, 2009
Wak is awesome.
It makes perfect sense to point everybody in the direction of the future HOFer. I think the other future HOFer didn’t hurt in the least in terms of helping the club get there. Who know tickling was going to be a part of it?
Sinking Away - July 15, 2009
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