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I'll get sent to the principles office for that.

Hank reminds me of the fat spoiled kid in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Just wanting to keep a sense of normality around here, life goes on and Hank is still a wanker. ] BY ANTHONY McCARRON DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Monday, June 16th 2008, 8:30 PM Hank Steinbrenner has a message for Major League Baseball - make the National League "join the modern age." After the Yankees lost their ace, Chien-Ming Wang, for perhaps as much as three months, Steinbrenner said baseball should implement the designated hitter in the NL to keep pitchers from running the bases. Wang was hurt Sunday scoring from second on a single by Derek Jeter in an interleague game in Houston. "I just think it's time the NL joined the 21st century," Steinbrenner said in a telephone interview. "The AL, the minors, colleges, high schools, they all have DHs. "Truthfully, the NL owners should be concerned with it, even with the practice their pitchers get doing it. You don't need to lose your best pitcher. The pitcher has enough work to do. It's something Bud (Selig) needs to address and he needs to address it soon. Don't give me that traditionalist crap. "We go to these NL cities, draw great crowds and we end up losing one of our best pitchers. I'm not happy." Yankee pitchers took several rounds of batting practice before this spate of interleague games, but Mike Mussina said they did not practice baserunning. "AL pitchers are at the most risk because we don't run the bases," Mussina said Sunday. "When you get four or five at-bats, at most, and get on base a couple times, you never know. We run in a straight line most of the time."

I guess we will find out today what the new coaches roles are. pdf[/url:2apv9ptu]

I've been thinking about the timing and I think it was all planned like that , somehow the Mets thought that if they were on the west coast trrip it would minimize the media firestorm

Well that ends that sorry saga.

I won't see the finish of this but I like the start.

Lennon just posted again , says all the coaches are at the stadium.

It's sadly come down to this , from David Lennon's blog ] For what it's worth... Just saw Willie Randolph, Jerry Manuel and Sandy Alomar leave for the stadium from the team hotel. No sign yet of Rick Peterson or Tom Nieto. Stay tuned ...

Carlos Beltran will DH Reyes, ss Castillo, 2b Wright, 3b Beltran, dh Delgado, 1b Anderson, lf Nixon, rf Schneider, c Chavez, cf Pelfrey, rhp

Wayne Krivsky.

I thought the manager was going to be gone there for sure , the current manager was his only hire there I think , didn't Hargrove just quit?

I've racked my brains and come up with Shane Halter.

The other night while waiting out the rain I switched over to watch the yankees for an inning , Joba was taking his turn at bat and Michael Kay said that if he was in charge there would be a DH hitting for him , that way NL fans would see something they don't usually see , and vice versa when the NL goes to the AL this week. A terrible idea I think.

Hank wants Joba to take Wangs turn in the rotation as well as his own.

I remember loving it and I think I was pretty sure that there were people like him in America.

Didn't Joe catch the last inning of the Howe tenure?

Maine or Glavine pinch running is not considered here , right? , a pitcher is a defensive position?

I know nothing about the Angels only what smg58 tells me , so if this team is underachieving spectacularly on paper then is the manager the one inspiring them to win , I have read loads in the past about Scioscia being a great manager , an under the radar type yybbb. What is he doing that Willie isn't , if anything.

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I thought about that , Gwreck, I've read two articles the past few days that claim Minaya is the only reason why Randolph is still in a job and that Jeff wants him gone , so the firing of coaches could be seeing as a way to appease Jeff . Both articles are not from beat writers so who knows. Klapisch Minaya's full autonomy more like fool autonomy

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He put that tilde on the back of his uniform when it was totally unnecessary! Fire his ass! I remember seeing an article this spring where the org was "confident" in his ability to be the first base coach. I've yet to see Tom have a player tag up and send him to second unnecessarily , no idea why they are firing him , why not fire Conti. I've noticed a bunch of players are carrying injuries ,I'd fire Ray Ramirez for that. SC =10000

Never heard that about Ryan and his missus before , had she a stalker? I'm sure Ryan will thank Seaver for bringing that up.

I'm not comparing Randolph to Thomas , just the way things are being run at the moment, the manager having to answer questions about his job status after every game is no way to treat the man, Willie admitted that he drove to Shea yesterday wondering what it would take to keep his job, and he wondered if he would be making the trip to Los Angeles . Minaya then changes plans to make the trip , it stinks.

Perez 5 Chavez 1 Reyes 1 Beltran 1 Delgado 1 Schoeneweis .5 Sanchez .5