What Do You Think?

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11923437.post-1161118101474199202006-10-17T16:11:00.000-04:002007-01-29T01:12:02.359-05:00What Do You Think?I'm having a hard time making up my mind. Dave Newhouse, a writer for Inside Bay Area, just wrote <a href="http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_4504547">a column</a> called<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The right man for A's job: Dusty Baker</span><br /><br />This is, to say the least, unconventional thinking. He goes on:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">THE OAKLAND A'S need a new manager, but not just any ordinary manager. They need that special someone who can carry them back to the World Series.<br /><br />There is just such a man, and he is so obviously right for the job, Billy Beane should pick up the phone and hire him on the spot. Call collect, Billy, if necessary.<br /><br />Dusty Baker is your man. </span><br /><br />Remember, Billy Beane is a man who likes to clog up the basepaths. And we believe that Dusty Baker is the man who first disparaged clogging up the basepaths. These people, if I'm correctly identifying them, probably would not get along, especially not as co-workers.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />If Beane hires Baker, maybe Barry Zito would take a few million less to play for this thoughtful man, who brings food to his players.</span><br /><br />Although there's always that. Dusty makes a terrific baked ziti.<br /><br />I'm thoroughly confused here. Did Dave Newhouse, someone who covers Bay Area baseball for a living, not read <span style="font-style:italic;">Moneyball</span>? Did he read <span style="font-style:italic;">Moneyball</span> and choose to willfully ignore all of the information contained within it? Does he not know who Dusty Baker is?<br /><br />I'm going to go ahead and let you guys decide.<br /><br /><form method=post action=http://poll.pollhost.com/vote.cgi><table border=0 width=150 bgcolor=#EEEEEE cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2><tr><td colspan=2><font face="Arial" size=-1 color="#000000"><b>Dave Newhouse ...</b></font></td></tr><tr><td width=5><input type=radio name=answer value=1></td><td><font face="Arial" size=-1 color="#000000">hasn't read Moneyball.</font></td></tr><tr><td width=5><input type=radio name=answer value=2></td><td><font face="Arial" size=-1 color="#000000">has read Moneyball, but suffered a memory-altering BMX biking accident shortly thereafter</font></td></tr><tr><td width=5><input type=radio name=answer value=3></td><td><font face="Arial" size=-1 color="#000000">is the nom de plume of Dusty Baker</font></td></tr><tr><td width=5><input type=radio name=answer value=4></td><td><font face="Arial" size=-1 color="#000000">is a time traveler from the future posing as an online sportswriter but is doing poorly because he has to save the world from an impending disaster</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><input type=hidden name=config value="anVuaW9yZmptCTExNjExMTgyNjYJRUVFRUVFCTAwMDAwMAlBcmlhbAlBc3NvcnRlZA"><center><input type=submit value=Vote>  <input type=submit name=view value=View></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=#FFFFFF colspan=2 align=right><font face="Arial" size=-2 color="#000000"><a href=http://www.pollhost.com/><font color=#000099>Free polls from Pollhost.com</font></a></font></td></tr></table></form><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11923437-116111810147419920?l=www.firejoemorgan.com'/></div>Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08172624914735262408noreply@blogger.com1