re juggling dodgers in article r coinnhg gap caltech edu jeff smoggy gg caltech edu jeff goldsmith writes in mssc qh y l p netcom com mss netcom com mark singer writes if this is true note that i don t think it is lasorda should be fired for at least two reasons publicly humiliating his players knuckling under to his players wishes i did not write that in fact those statements were a rebuttal to an earlier posting that i made and this was culled from my strong rebuttal to those statements please slander shame there is a fine line between getting players input and knuckling under to players demands a manager much like a military officer needs to have his her players complete obedience and respect during a game after the game it s no big deal but when there is no time to do more than react players must trust the manager or the team often falls apart see boston red sox ff after the game it s no big deal after the employees leave the workplace it doesn t matter what they say about the boss or the company puhlease strawberry s demeanor as represented by the media often sounds like demands i suspect that a comment like i enjoy hitting fourth i m used to it would get pretty brutally misinterpreted by the media if it came from strawberry russ porter quoted strawberry as saying i feel more comfortable hitting cleanup and i think i perform best in that role paraphrased by my memory and bias that seems like a fairly non petulant answer to what was almost certainly a question like how do you feel about being moved to the third spot in the order first it s ross porter second i am really tired of seeing the kind of response that indicates that all i do is parrot what some media person says or writes i have a brain if i choose to characterize something in a certain fashion it s because that is what i believe to be accurate it is not just because some unnamed mediot made the characterization a more media sensitive player might answer the manager knows what he is doing if he thinks that batting me third will help the team then i am all for it we d ignore that answer as brown stuff so it seems a little bit of an overreaction to brand darryl s response as petulant i did not brand darryl s response as petulant because i never heard any response from darryl i did call him a name i referred to him as a primadonna someone else concluded that i did that because i hate him i don t hate him i think he s a primadonna if you disagree fine but stop putting words in my mouth the beastmaster mark singer mss netcom com
