On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:46:47 GMT, "Steve M. Mann"
<rockermann@LOOSEITsteve-mann.com> wrote:


Must've been Chambliss fault that the offense tanked. If KGS gets the
job, then we know who the CF and #3 spot will likely be.

Just as significant is they are going to hire a pitching coach. This
is a real positive for me.

Hume and Berry both survived. I thought both would be gone.

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:57:39 -0400, "Bob Braun"
<oxsports@hotandsunnymail.com> wrote:


I thought earlier in the season that the team approach to the plate
had improved immensely. We were seeing a boatload of pitches and
getting into people's pens, and both Kearns and EE looked to have
improved approaches at the plate.

Why do you think Chambliss needed to go, just been there too long or
something else?

I don't think this has been mentioned yet...

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs....0017/1071/rss08

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"Steve M. Mann" <rockermann@LOOSEITsteve-mann.com> wrote in message
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I like Chambliss, but I think that was a necessary change.

"JustTom" <tom@nomail.please> wrote in message
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I thought their hitting approach improved early on as well. I would like to
have seen Chambliss develop a hitter or two. Good hitting coaches cannot
overreact when a guy throws up an 0-12. But there is nothing wrong with
some fine tuning once in awhile. Over the course of 162, a hitter can fall
into some bad habits.

I'm not saying Chambliss didn't do those things, I just don't see a helluva
lot of evidence of it. So I think it was probably time for a change. I
think Hume should have joined him.

JustTom wrote:

Just as likely it would be the opposite. Griffey SR should be able to
recognize that his son can't get it done in CF and is as likely as
anybody to get this through to Junior. SR can smack JR around a bit and
still get away with it.

There's nothing wrong with Griffey batting third.....against righties.

Listening to WLW this morning, the answer is that the Reds are looking
for both a hitting coach and a pitching coach.

If Piniella's not going to NY to manage, and it looks like he ain't,
he's available as hitting instructor.

On 11 Oct 2006 09:53:49 -0700, thomas@meiwausa.com wrote:


I don't care what job he gets, as long as it gets him out of the
booth. He sounds like a dundering idjit on the broadcasts.

<thomas@meiwausa.com> wrote in message

IU understand the fascination, but I simply can't imagine why Lou Piniella
would WANT to come to Cincy in anything more than a full manager's position
working for a GM and an owner who will give him tremendous leeway.

Sure Lou won a series here and the owner seems to talk the same language,
but ....
Lou had some less than kind things to say about Junior when Junior started
to get hurt.
There is NOTHING left of the team or the organization that was here when Lou
was around. I guess Billy Hatcher as one of the coaches null and voids, that
statement from being entirely true, but...well, that's the only linkage I
can see.
He's not going to come to town to play patty-cake. If Piniella is around it
means he's waiting to take over while the make Narron the fall guy for this
year's (meaning 2007) failures. If this management team is already thinking
that way, we might as well all just start rooting for the cardinals.

dfs

"David Short" <David.no.Short@Wright.spam.Edu.please> wrote in message
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That would be the front office's guy sitting next to you, waiting to take
over, if and when you fall on your ass. But Jerry should know all about
that shouldn't he?

Bob Braun wrote:

I am particularly concerned about how it will effect Dunn (if he's
still around next year), only because of the positive influence I saw
Chambliss have on him him when Chris got to Cincy. I don't think Adam
puts up his 2004 and 2005 level performances without Chambliss (or at
least someone who would be a settling influence). To compund the
concern, I get the feeling that narron is a problem where Dunn's
hitting approach is concerned. I don't recall the specifics at the
moment, but Jerry was quoted earlier in the season saying something
that sounded very Ray Knight-like about Adam's approach.