Bobby Valentine: Idiot?

GatewaySnayke · Post by **GatewaySnayke** » March 10 07, 11:23 am

In an interview with the New York Times, former Rangers and Mets manager Bobby Valentine had this to say about steroid use on the Oakland A's team managed by Tony La Russa: "I always thought I was a smart guy. And then I realized I'm a dumb guy — because I was managing against the Oakland A's and I was firing our conditioning coaches because our guys weren't getting as strong as the A's. If I knew what was going on, I probably would have gotten very upset and either insisted that all my guys do it or I would have blown the whistle, I'm not sure. But I was stupid."

Yeah, Bobby, your Texas teams stunk because they weren't as big as Oakland's players. I guess Oakland players were on even ground with immortal players like Cecil Espy and Larry Parrish, but it was the juice that got 'em over the hump.

Oh, just a real good analysis.

sighyoung · Post by **sighyoung** » March 10 07, 11:29 am

Is this a question like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?"?

jim · Post by **jim** » March 10 07, 11:42 am

sighyoung wrote:Is this a question like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?"?

Exactly.

lazypenguin · Post by **lazypenguin** » March 10 07, 11:53 am

I really didn't need to read the post in order to affirm the title. I did anyways though...

Steroids are the biggest scape goat I've ever seen in sports. They are blamed for everything now a days. I'm so sick of hearing about it. Everyone still loves NFL and we all know those guys are juicing it. Just do your testing, enforce the rules, and get over it. I'm so sick of ESPN dedicated 1/4th of every show to steroid in baseball coverage (the other 3/4ths about the Yankess and the Red Sox)

Good God!

LP

Jmodene · Post by **Jmodene** » March 10 07, 2:27 pm

Maybe Valentine wasn't as dumb as he thought he was, though, since he traded to *get* Canseco.

stlmark · Post by **stlmark** » March 10 07, 3:35 pm

This from the same guy that got ejected from a game and then went into the clubhouse, got a disguise and came back into the dugout.

G. Keenan · Post by **G. Keenan** » March 10 07, 3:41 pm

stlmark wrote:This from the same guy that got ejected from a game and then went into the clubhouse, got a disguise and came back into the dugout.

Which is classic. I'm all for that sort of thing.

stlmark · Post by **stlmark** » March 10 07, 6:18 pm

G. Keenan wrote:
stlmark wrote:This from the same guy that got ejected from a game and then went into the clubhouse, got a disguise and came back into the dugout.
Which is classic. I'm all for that sort of thing.

Oh yea, it was funny as hell

,but he's a fool.

G. Keenan · Post by **G. Keenan** » March 10 07, 6:21 pm

stlmark wrote:
G. Keenan wrote:
stlmark wrote:This from the same guy that got ejected from a game and then went into the clubhouse, got a disguise and came back into the dugout.
Which is classic. I'm all for that sort of thing.
Oh yea, it was funny as hell ,but he's a fool.

Indeed.

Anyone know how the team he managed in Japan ended up doing?

mcgee51taguchi99 · Post by **mcgee51taguchi99** » March 10 07, 6:39 pm

I'm pretty sure the team he managed in Japan won their league championship a year or two back.