Comments on: Ozzie Guillen doesn’t sound married to keeping Heath Bell as the closer

By: vivabear

vivabear — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:49:25 +0000

Sorry WMSK…you aren’t in on the theme from the offseason. The one where Gator continually insisted the Marlins could have simply asked for Garza instead of Zambrano, and given up the same package to end up with him.

By: icanspeel

icanspeel — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:17:44 +0000

With 27 mill over 3 years invested in him, they better hope he turns it around sooner than later. Sometimes losing the closer role can help since it takes some of the 9th inning pressure off and brings the focus back to just pitching.

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:34:39 +0000

Um, no.

By: captainwisdom8888

captainwisdom8888 — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:24:54 +0000

Heath Bell is a close relative of Kenny fu**cking Powers

By: ptfu

ptfu — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:19:49 +0000

Bell IS a kid. A giant, goateed one. Check out any of his interviews, especially this one:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Answer-Man-Padres-Heath-Bell-talks-toys-consp?urn=mlb,230274

Bell is awesome, no matter how he pitches.

By: chibios

chibios — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:22:27 +0000

lol @ Bell being referred to as “kid”

By: vivabear

vivabear — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:50:37 +0000

Hhmmm….For some reason I bet the cubs would trade Garza to Miami for Zambrano.

By: brokea$$lovesmesomeme

brokea$$lovesmesomeme — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:19:18 +0000

Fidel was a minor league Baseball Cuba top 100 prospect back in the day and maybe since Ozzie has a man-crush be could ring him up……

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:55:08 +0000

Ozzie’s smartest quote of 2012 so far.

By: Utley's Hair

Utley's Hair — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:53:12 +0000

Ouch…Heath Bell, you are no Fidel Castro.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:50:12 +0000

Mujica will most likely remain the setup man. He does have a tendency to float a beachball to the plate in critical situations. Me for Cishek until we see what Jennings brings to the table. On the other hand, it’s critical to give Bell every opportunity to get himself straightened out. I suspect that this season is already in the tank – and I don’t mean the ones behind home plate; they’re for Mr. Creosote – because this team didn’t do enough to address its problems with run production over the offseason. Now the most expendable players who were potential big-trade bait, Tweeter and Gaby, look terrible and won’t fetch much.

I also think it’s time to admit that although Larry Beinfest is certainly not down there with the Minayas and Hendrys, he dined out for some time after 2003 on a team of homegrowns he inherited largely from Dave Dombrowski. His own picks, however compromised by Scrooge McLoria’s feescal policies prior to this past orfseason, have been competent but hardly the works of genius some admirers seemed to think they were.