great article it’s all about the move to Cisco Field and building a team for 2010, 2011 and likely really stinking for 2008 and 2009. A’s fans have to be patient.
As for what he said about the Giants, I thought it rang somewhat true:
“My words, not his: Basically, Beane didn’t want to turn into a better bland version of the nervous, occasionally delusional and continuously unsuccessful Giants.
‘“No way I was going to sit there and sort of b.s. my way through this,” Beane said. “You know, tell myself that everything’s going to be fine and just relying on hope. I don’t want to be sitting there in May and sort of shrug my shoulders, ‘Hey, it wasn’t my fault. We got hurt again.’ It works once. I didn’t want to use it again.”
great article it’s all about the move to Cisco Field and building a team for 2010, 2011 and likely really stinking for 2008 and 2009. A’s fans have to be patient.
As for what he said about the Giants, I thought it rang somewhat true:
“My words, not his: Basically, Beane didn’t want to turn into a better bland version of the nervous, occasionally delusional and continuously unsuccessful Giants.
‘“No way I was going to sit there and sort of b.s. my way through this,” Beane said. “You know, tell myself that everything’s going to be fine and just relying on hope. I don’t want to be sitting there in May and sort of shrug my shoulders, ‘Hey, it wasn’t my fault. We got hurt again.’ It works once. I didn’t want to use it again.”
No BS from a No BS kind of guy.
- Freddie Footballer