Quick Hits: Interview with Depo, Some Plaschke Bashing and more..
Posted by Alan Hull on January 9th, 2008
An interview with San Diego Padres special advisor, Paul Depodesta on Beyond the Box Score in the SB Nation (always a good read). There’s a certain self-consciousness that you can pick up based on all the bashing he got during his time with the LA Dodgers as general manager. Everyone, despite what Bill Plaschke thinks (note: Plaschke doesn’t think), Depodesta does know what character means.
Speaking of which, Plashke changed his view of Depo when the Mitchell report broke noting, “give new boss Paul DePodesta credit for trading Lo Duca to the Florida Marlins. I wrote that sending Lo Duca out during the middle of a pennant race was one of the worst trades in team history. If DePodesta made the trade based on steroid use, then I stand corrected.”
An oversimplification, of course, but it’s something from Plaschke. I say it was a great trade because Lo Duca was worthless after the month of June, but that’s just splitting hairs at this point.
Aaron Rowand thinks the San Francisco Giants will be competitive in 2008. He is alone in that regard. I’d say they’d be lucky to be good in five to ten years.
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Newbie Hall of Famer Goose Gossage thinks all the roiders should come clean. I agree with that. Who will step up and be the first? I won’t hold my breath.
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Curt Schilling is a World of Warcraft dork.
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My boy Andy, of Gutty Little Bruins, weighs in on Pete Carroll and the NFL.
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