Noble on Baseball Love

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kelvin Chapman is the second guy he thinks of?

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070213&content_id=1801299&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

[metirish]

Omar Minaya talking about the game....

] There are so many ways to get it done. Look at the players they've had here [with the Mets] over the years. David Cone, he did it different from anyone else. Look at Orlando Hernandez and [Hideo] Nomo. How unusual they were. Lenny [Dykstra]. And David Eckstein, how he gets it done. I love players like that. I want the best athletes, but I admire the players who get it done with less talent. I think you get more of that in baseball than you get in the other big sports. A baseball is there every day.

What does he mean about Cone?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Strange article. Talks to his wife, a Met director of Media Relations I'd never even heard of (Shannon Forde?) and the merchants at his local shopping center. Loaded with typos and poor transcriptions. I guess his editors don't love him

[Gwreck]

Edgy DC wrote: Kelvin Chapman is the second guy he thinks of?

Alphabetical order, I think.

The article itself? Strange indeed.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not Nobleriffic, certainly, and all over the board.

But I had to post some shit. It beats working.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Kelvin Chapman is the second guy he thinks of?

I remember from back in the day that Noble would talk about how Chapman was one of his favorite guys to deal with.

And, yeah, that list is alphabetical.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metirish wrote: Omar Minaya talking about the game.... ] There are so many ways to get it done. Look at the players they've had here [with the Mets] over the years. David Cone, he did it different from anyone else. Look at Orlando Hernandez and [Hideo] Nomo. How unusual they were. Lenny [Dykstra]. And David Eckstein, how he gets it done. I love players like that. I want the best athletes, but I admire the players who get it done with less talent. I think you get more of that in baseball than you get in the other big sports. A baseball is there every day. What does he mean about Cone?

Cone was something like a Cuban pitcher in that he had a variety of arm angles for deception, something coaches here work against, so it's more common to see from a foreign import who came to the US as an established pro than from a guy who came up through the minors.