Stupid Edmonds!

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:24:20 -0500, "A" <aaaz.DeleteThis@att.net> gave us:
>"Jeremy Reaban" <jeremy_reaban.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:g7iscu01qfj@news3.newsguy.com...

>> As much as I hate to see the Cubs do well, I think the Cardinals are
>> getting some just desserts for how they've treated some of their other
>> long time players (like Ozzie Smith or Ray Lankford, similarly discarded).

> Lankford was horrible at the end of his career.
> Smith was not horrible so your mentioning him is more appropriate
>than with Lankford.

First, Lankford was not horrible at the end of his career. More to
the point, he wasn't horrible when Jocketty ran him out of town in
August 2001 -- he had a 114 OPS+ at the time.

Secondly, what does a player being "horrible" have to do with how an
organization should properly treat a longtime contributor?

--
Lance

"There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters
and they're all against me. Every one of them."
-- Joaquin Andujar


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