Welcome to the first post here at Conor’s Baseball
Blog! I wanted to start this ‘blog off with a bang, but since I’m going
to be the only one reading it for the first few weeks, I’ll simply
start it with something that caught my eye tonight. I was reading an
article on the Mariners’ official web site about Felix Hernandez, and
the impressive spring that he is having thus far. There was a similar
article on the Seattle PI’s page, so I read that too. Here is what
caught my eye:
In the article on the M’s page, Jim Street quotes M’s manager, Mike Hargrove, as saying:
“Very
rarely do I sit in a bullpen and watch someone throw, but it is fun to
watch this kid. It's easy to like a 98 mile-per-hour fastball, but he
has good action on his changeup. He throws strikes and keeps it down.”
However, John Hickey over at the PI quotes Hargrove as saying:
“You
can't crown him as the next Cy Young, but he is electric. He has a
nice, easy motion. It's easy to like a 98-mph fastball, but then you
look at his changeup. Very rarely do I sit in the bullpen to watch a
pitcher throw, but it's fun to watch this kid throw.”
The
quotes are similar enough that I imagine both Street and Hickey were
among a group of reporters interviewing Hargrove. Either that, or, with
13 years of managerial experience, “The Human Rain Delay”
has become a master of spitting out similar quotes to various reporters
throughout the day. If the latter is the case, then this isn’t an issue
at all. However, if both Street and Hickey were listening to Hargrove
at the same time, what did he really say? Not that it’s a
really big deal; I’m sure most people won’t even notice, but as a
journalism student, it caught my attention.
Anyway, I have a lot of interesting stuff lined up for this site, so stay tuned!