Comments on: No, the Cardinals aren’t trying to change Colby Rasmus. But his father is taking shots at the organization…

By: macjacmccoy

macjacmccoy — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:46:31 +0000

I would think the father would no more about what the Cardinals were trying to do with his son then you or your “sources” tell you.

By: pogodog7

pogodog7 — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:35:51 +0000

What can McGwire teach about hitting? He was a .260 hitter and a steroids user.

By: FYMYAWF

FYMYAWF — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:04:05 +0000

Jeebus, this guy sounds like a complete tool. He must have gone to the female tennis player school of parenting. Your son is a grown man, stay the f**k out of his business and stop ruining his rep by association.

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:32:24 +0000

As baseball fans, we’re a notch about football fans/throwing our own poop.

By: jblazeandem

jblazeandem — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:34:49 +0000

i figured this site would be like profootballtalk. Usually when the guy who wrote the article writes his follow up article after he was wrong and believed some dumb bull, the comments reflect that he is an idiot for believing it in the first place and more so for then trying to spin it and make up a story talking bad about the guy he got his info from. I guess its different. This guy silva is lucky he’s not florio.

By: PanchoHerreraFanClub

PanchoHerreraFanClub — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:44:00 +0000

Hey, isn’t this just “great fun”.

By: seattlej

seattlej — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:22:45 +0000

Must be a slow day… why does anyone care what this guy says, and why waste the time to repeat it? Damnit… I just wasted my time reading it and writing this comment.

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:13:08 +0000

I didn’t realize Helicopter Parenting had reached the level that they were telling proffesional orgnaizations how to run things.

Certainly, If I have to consider what Pops thinks in a potential deal. I’m going to do my best to find a player whose parents are a little further removed from the players life.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:07:12 +0000

Just a little note to the goyim: this parental interface has been going on for five thousand years before the internet was a gleam in William Gibson's father's eye. We don't have a Hebrew font handy but the term for it is kvelling. I suspect it even pre-dates schmaltz.

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:59:39 +0000

I took my niece and nephew to a t-ball game a few weeks ago and the parents were yelling, screaming and all sorts of incoherently urging their kids to do this, run there, and throw that way all while contradicting the parent that they were next to, proving their opinion was right by using more volume than the adjacent wack job.

Apparently, when their kids grow up, they don’t. And instead of howling through a chain link fence, they ramble in internet chatrooms and message boards.

Parental input is the new inefficiency.

By: apbaguy

apbaguy — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:47:23 +0000

I mean Rasmus’s dad. Still early on the West Coast…

By: apbaguy

apbaguy — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:45:57 +0000

This reminds me of the comments Dusty Baker reportedly made about Joey Votto his second year up. Votto had an extremely high OBP as a rookie, and Baker wanted him to be more aggressive at the plate. The comments were reported as if Baker wanted Votto to turn himself into Manny Sanguillen or something, when in fact Baker wanted Votto to swing aggressively at selected pitches in his zone, especially in hitter’s counts. Basically Baker was giving Votto a crash course in slugger development, and his comments got misrepresented.

I think that’s what LaRussa is trying to do with Rasmus: get him to exploit all his natural gifts. Even Josh Hamilton beats out dribblers off the end of his bat, and Josh talked a lot about how he cut down his swing to make better contact more often this year. But clearly LaRussa’s dad thinks he knows better. It’s a different game from High School at the top of the professional level.

By: sknut

sknut — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:39:29 +0000

The father needs to lay off, Colby is a big boy and while I am not a LaRussa fan, he knows more about baseball than the Rasmus family combined. And in this whole process elder Rasmus has hurt his son’s trade value what smart organization is going to deal with Rasmus and his father when he is slumping. I know the kid is talented but come on be a man and perform and tell your old man to shut up and live his life.