Mimi wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 8:36pmI recently realized that Volpe is wearing #11, Brett Gardner's old number. Guess Brett isn't coming back.
Huh. Classy.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/new ... g%20events.
Gardner's onto more noble, astral work.
Mimi wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 8:36pmI recently realized that Volpe is wearing #11, Brett Gardner's old number. Guess Brett isn't coming back.
Huh. Classy.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/new ... g%20events.
And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
GritDr. Medulla wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 9:51pmAnd uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
Grit and determination.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 9:51pmAnd uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
I think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.Mimi wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 10:31pmGrit and determination.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 9:51pmAnd uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
Yeah, I can see it.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 6:24amI think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.Mimi wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 10:31pmGrit and determination.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 9:51pmAnd uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
But with grit and determination.Mimi wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 8:05amYeah, I can see it.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 6:24amI think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.Mimi wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 10:31pmGrit and determination.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 9:51pmAnd uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
Very grit, much determination.revbob wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 8:07amBut with grit and determination.Mimi wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 8:05amYeah, I can see it.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑17 May 2023, 6:24amI think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.Mimi wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 10:31pmGrit and determination.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑16 May 2023, 9:51pm
And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.
In David Halberstam's wonderful Summer of '49—if you haven't read it, you'd love it—he describes Frank Crosetti, former Yankee infielder-turned-coach, who was the blueprint for the humourless Yankee:
The Yankees were not just a family to Crosetti, they were a religion. Within that religion, arrogance was a sin. He was always on guard against it. If the Yankees won three in a row and the players started celebrating in the locker room, the Crow would look at them coldly and say, “Don’t be so gay when you’re all full of shit.” He did not congratulate batters who hit home runs except, it was said, Maris on the occasion of his sixty-first and Mantle on the occasion of his five-hundredth. He did not congratulate them because they had merely done what they were supposed to do.
Crosetti knew everything about Yankee baseball, and almost nothing about anything else. He had no time for the ancillary pleasures of the season. He did not attend the victory parties that celebrated World Series wins. His car was already packed as the Series wound down, and the moment the last game was over, he left as quickly as he could and drove back to California. In 1949 one of the rookies asked Crosetti if he had ever attended a victory celebration? Yes, he answered, once—in 1932, his rookie year. Why not since then, Crow? the player wondered. “No need to,” Crosetti answered.
Gotta wonder how patient Cohen will be, especially with the example of the Phillies turning things around after canning Girardi last year.