Q.Bovifs wrote:
sinicalypse wrote:
now if you wanna see a hall of fame baseball career look no further than my man vladimir guerrero >>>
http://www.baseball-reference.com/playe ... vl01.shtmlTell you what - ever since you posted that youtube Vlad Tribute Song, every time I see or hear his name that song starts playing in my head.
i have no idea what vlad's doing, but if i were him i'd go weasel my way into a backup gig with the marlins. ozzie's the type of manager who he could work with and if he gets his head out of his ass and focus on having one good at bat a game, shit, he used to be awesome in innings 7-9 back in his montreal halcyon days of legend and lore.
i think there's a lot of pride-swallowing going on with vlad right now. my dad told me that vlad was in a bar fight in miami before he got the minor league gig with the blue jays, to which i just kind of chuckled and retorted "well dude's lucky he didn't have a bat." vlad used to be a big deal $10-15mil franchise-type-player, and while his skills didn't quite fall off the table they have declined a noticeable amount... vlad isn't exactly what you'd call a mechanical player, so when he's used to doing things a certain way and then he'd have to change up his routine to accommodate, his default response is "fuck you, i'm vladimir guerrero" and keep doing things the way he always did them.
my gut feeling is when teams started offering him $1-3 mil for backup roles vlad's "fuck you i'm vladimir guerrero" mechanism popped up and when he was demanding $5mil+/year, teams told him and damon to take a walk, damon quickly scuttled to the indians whereas vlad kind of kicked back and got in a bar fight or two. he did ~15 games out in las vegas proved he could still hit and he's back to his "fuck you, i'm vladimir guerrero" stance.
so once he gets over that and realizes that making his life mission to have ~1 good at bat a game wiht MAYBE a half inning of defense in case of emergency, then i think he could be pretty damn useful. if the marlins are in it down the stretch and ozzie has the vladimir guerrero card to play, that's a nice ace to have up your sleeve. at any point in a tight game ozzie could go "fuck you, here's vladimir guerrero" and BLAM. the only holdup is that vlad's kind of still "fuck YOU, i'm vladimir guerrero" cuz his pride wants him to have a fulltime gig somewhere cuz on his past merits, sure, he deserves it... but it's a game of the now and future, so if vlad wants to kind of reinvent himself as a secret weapon to get past 450HR and brush up on some other numbers, it'd work out.... he has to ask himself if he wants to sit in his mansion and begin the rest of his life or hang out in baseball clubhouses for as long as he can.
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