Manager Trey Hillman blames himself, in part, for Gobble’s rough 2008. Hillman cites two occasions, including that game against the Tigers, when a tired bullpen led him to allow an ineffective Gobble to take a pounding.
"I also forced the issue of wanting him to be better against right-handed hitters when he wasn’t ready for that," Hillman said. "Having said that, the objective this year will be to primarily utilize him (against left-handed hitters)."
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Its hard to believe Jimmy's only 27
is he really the only one left in the organization from the incredibly lucky magical 2003 club?
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan
What is really amazing
Is that the only players who appeared in a game for the Royals in 2003 that are still in the Majors last year are:
Angel Berroa
Carlos Beltran
Mike Sweeney (barely)
David DeJesus (7 ABs in 2003)
Kyle Snyder (1 2/3 innings in 2008)
Mike MacDougal (for 17 IP in 2008)
Jeremy Affeldt
Jamey Wright
And Gobble. Everyone else has washed out.
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by RoyalsRetro on Feb 24, 2009 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
I wonder how many are tooling around in the independent leagues
Ken Harvey…Lima Time?
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan
by Royal Kingdom on Feb 24, 2009 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
Man,
I would have swore DeJesus had a bigger part in 2003.
I just got back from your mom's basement.
tremendous
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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 24, 2009 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
That's what she said
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
ohs
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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 24, 2009 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
also note that
“against left-handed hitters” is in parentheses…I guess that means that he didn’t say those words exactly. I wonder if he actually used LOOGY and Dutton didn’t want to try to explain that????
We always did feel the same, We just saw it from a different point of view, Tangled up in blue.
-Bob Dylan
I just heard Trey...
on Petro’s show on the way back from lunch. And he said the same thing…without the parentheses.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 24, 2009 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
So basically he "re-learned"
what Buddy Bell already knew? Nice.
"I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer." - Dan Quisenberry
I spent $100 exactly on the last night home game of the year
for “Shirst Off Their Back Night”, and ended up with the ol’ Gobbler. It goes without saying, I was pretty disappointed.
"I just trust what he does. And he has such a great ass..... er... grasp" -Chase "Booger" DanielS on Colt McCoy's "Ass-ets"
Since Gobble Was
A starter to begin with, I think it wasn’t too egregious to believe he could deal with RHB’s; he obviously did so with at least some modicum of success in the past. However, that was then, this is now, and Trey needs to live in the now. The Turkinator is a very good LOOGY. If we want to carry a LOOGY on a 12-man staff, he’s a good choice.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
hopefully that ethos will rub off higher up where it matters
(or he said)
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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 24, 2009 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
I have noticed
He hasn’t had the team pick up folding chairs this year.
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i wonder if they'll have to cook
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by Matt Klaassen on Feb 24, 2009 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
I think that robbed the team of at least three wins last year.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
As long as we don't have a...
public dressing-down immediately after a game with the players kneeling around home plate, then I think we can call it progress.
Maybe he’ll go the opposite direction this year—Mrs. Hillman bringing a cooler full of ice-cold RC Cola’s for the boys…followed by everyone piling into the Hillman’s minivan for ice cream.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it." -Hal McRae
by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 24, 2009 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
I don't even know if the public dressing down (and by all accounts it was a mild one) was a bad thing
I don’t think he should be doing it all the time, but I think it can be appropriate from time to time.
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by Scott McKinney on Feb 24, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions
make em run windsprints this year
even better, make all the pitchers run poles after the game, til they puke,
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