Robby

[Guest Ned Fengus]

Or....Let's Go Mets!!!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That avatar still looks awfully wide to me.

Am I the only one seeing it?

[Guest Ned Fengus]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: That avatar still looks awfully wide to me. Am I the only one seeing it?

158x106

[Guest cooby]

No, I can see it

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm seeing it at 400 x 267.

[metirish]

I'm seeing it as 158 - 106

[Guest OlerudOwned]

I've got it at Ned's Smaller Size.

Go figg're.

[Guest Ned Fengus]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I'm seeing it at 400 x 267.

I'm using IE7 at the moment and I right clicked for properties and it said 158x106. In my view my avatar is just a hair wider than yours, but doesn't distort the page at all.

[Guest cooby]

I am too, clear your cookies Yancy.

[Guest Ned Fengus]

So now that we got that cleared up.....I was going to use this , as I figured it kind of summed it all up, but when I looked back in my archive and saw the live game shot, well....I couldn't resist.

[seawolf17]

Ned Fengus wrote: Well, he's being forced out as manager of the nats, says he doesn't want to manage anymore but doesn't want to retire from the game. He still feels he can contribute to a team in some capacity, and I'm in agreement with that.

Can he throw strikes? We could use another arm until Pedro comes back.

Seriously, the guy's a legend in every way, yet never seems to get the props he deserves. WTG, Frank.

[MFS62]

Frank was and still is my favorite all time player.
He was a leader on the field and a ground breaker off it.
I hope, as I read a few days ago, that his long time friendship will Omar will land him a position with the Mets.

Later

[Guest Ned Fengus]

MFS62 wrote: his long time friendship will Omar will land him a position with the Mets.

Elaborate - if you will. I had no idea that they have known each other for a while - of course they knew each other from the Expos, but that is hardly long term.

[MFS62]

I dunno how far back it actually goes, I read that in the paper. But I would guess Robby was an inspiration to Omar because he was the first minority GM and Omar may have first talked to him when he was considering going after a front office position.

But it at least goes back to their days in Montreal. And that's probably "far back" when you are talking about baseball relationships.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Who did Robinson GM for?

A little from wikipedia:

]Robinson's style of managing is somewhat controversial. In 2005, the Montreal Gazette's Stephanie Myles reported that he had spent much time playing golf during his years in Montreal. The septuagenarian sometimes spent 16 hour days between the course and the games at night. This practice came under heightened scrutiny in the American capital. Also, some journalists have questioned his lack of use of statistics to determine pitching match-ups with his hitting line-ups. Robinson defended his style of managing by saying that he goes by his "gut feeling." In a June 2005 Sports Illustrated poll of 450 MLB players, Robinson was selected the worst manager in baseball. In 2005, one of Robinson's Nationals players asked him, in all seriousness, if he had ever played in the majors. This was reported on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel as an illustration of how little some current players are aware of the history of the game. On Thursday, April 20, 2006, with the Nationals winning 10-4 against their division rival, the Philadelphia Phillies, Nats manager Frank Robinson got his 1,000th win, becoming the 53rd manager to reach that milestone[1]. He had earned his 1,000th loss two seasons earlier.[2] During a game against the Houston Astros on May 25, 2006, Frank Robinson was forced to pull out the Nationals catcher, Matt LeCroy, during the middle of the 7th inning. In baseball, there is an unwritten rule that managers do not remove position players in the middle of an inning. Instead, managers are supposed to discretely switch position players in between innings. However, Nationals third string catcher, Matt LeCroy, let Houston Astros baserunners steal seven bases over seven innings with two throwing errors. Although the Nationals won the game 8-5, Frank Robinson found the decision so difficult to make on a player he respected so much, he broke down crying during the post-game interviews.[3].

In Novemeber 2005, five months after that dis' in Sports Illustrated, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's got to be some solace, right?