Comments on: Mattingly likely to succeed Torre and other chatter

By: RP

RP — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:45:59 +0000

He may want to change his website name to “Balls of Steel.” Or at least put that as the tagline.
Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure he’s wrong about Rivera’s involvement with Balloon Boy. I’m pretty sure he was too busy covering his tracks from his sales of nuclear technology to Iran.

By: Church of the Perpetually Outraged

Church of the Perpetually Outraged — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:06:44 +0000

Heyman talks about how amazing Mariano Rivera has been in the postseason. How he hasn’t discounted all of the numbers he cites for Rivera’s blatant spitballing is beyond me. I also hear that Rivera was in on that whole balloon boy scam too, so we should even be more skeptical.

It’s official, my comment on shysterball is true, you have balls of steel.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:30:33 +0000

Unlike the Yankees, the Dodgers don’t have any particular sentimental reasons to love Donnie Baseball. Torre is not a long-time beloved manager but a late-career hired gun (or hired brain, or whatever). I don’t see why the Dodgers should feel obligated to give Mattingly the job unless he’s truly the best man for the job.
I’m not saying he’s not. I’m just saying that there seems to be no compelling reason for an heir apparent situation in this case.
Then again, I’m rarely in favor of an heir apparent situation in baseball. In football or other more highly-integrated, gameplanned team sports I think it can work, for continuity’s sake. But in baseball you just send the best guys out there and manage egos (oversimplifying, I know). I’d say hire the best guy, regardless of whether he was a coach for the old guy.