Goose Gossage, crotchety old man

by Adam J. Morris on Jul 27, 2008 11:58 AM CDT Comment 13 comments

Goose Gossage says, in his day, you hated the players on the other team!

That's the way it was, and you liked it!

On the day before his induction into baseball's Hall of Fame, the 57-year-old Gossage criticized modern players for allowing their personal relationships to affect the competition on the field. He said there is too much "hugging and loving around the [batting] cage.''

It wasn't that way in his day.

"[Former White Sox manager] Chuck Tanner would grab you, slam you up against a locker and say, 'What are you doing talking to those guys?'." Gossage said. "'They aren't your friends. They're trying to take food off your table.' There was no fraternizing.''

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Too much loving huh...

Ok, I hate Goose Gossage then.

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jul 27, 2008 12:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Your name is Goose

shut it.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 27, 2008 12:12 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree with him

Let me have a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it fast I'm in a God damned hurry!

by DaheelzCM on Jul 27, 2008 12:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I have no problem with it

"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley

by boomer1 on Jul 27, 2008 12:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

u should

because they are all hypocrites. They would do the exact same thing in this era of baseball…

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 27, 2008 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Who besides his teammates are

Padz buddies? I like that in my players. There are not to many Yankee players that like Red Sox players and it makes for a better game.

"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley

by boomer1 on Jul 27, 2008 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

u sure about that?

most converse and hug before the game….even yanks and sox.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 27, 2008 12:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yup

Watch before a Sox-Yanks game and you’ll see Ortiz hanging out with the pinstripes and Jeter wandering in to the visiting batting practice.

by philkid3 on Jul 27, 2008 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Are you sure

It isn’t because today’s players have blogs and forums to take out their rants on? :-)

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Jul 27, 2008 12:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jeff Francouer

just swung and missed on a pitch above his shoulders.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 27, 2008 12:47 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

He is having a bad year

"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley

by boomer1 on Jul 27, 2008 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well whadayah know

Harold Reynolds on TBS broadcast..

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 27, 2008 1:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What a load of crap.............

In yesterday’s Dallas Morning News, there was a picture of Dick Williams yucking it up around the batting cage with Roger Maris. And this was before a game in the 1967 World Series, in which Williams managed Boston and Maris played for STL.

This “good ol’ days” syndrome gets tiresome. I’m not sure if these guys are bitter that they played in the era before big-money free agency, or if they want us all to believe they played baseball “the right way”, or what. But it is tiresome.

by Hard8 on Jul 27, 2008 7:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs