Hanley Ramirez, "SS"
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Find the aim and achieve it. To sail to and fro, this will expose you to a strategic disgrace. - GM Aron Nimzovich
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing more important than knowing the rules, is knowing their exceptions. - jemanji
To get squares, you gotta give squares. - Bobby Fischer
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee
".268/.330/.464 in Safeco, second half" - Brad Miller's bat
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Jack Zduriencik reminds me of Whitey Herzog, give or take the belly laugh and the rings. (Whitey Herzog minus those two things is still a whale of a baseball man. A great Bill James line about Herzog -- who ran James' beloved 1970's Royals -- "If Whitey hadn't been an MLB manager, he'd have been the county sheriff.")
The passage I remember best from his book The White Rat: "If it's drizzling, Templeton doesn't wanna play. If it's Thursday, he doesn't wanna play. If his wife yelled at him, he doesn't wanna play. I gotta have a starting shortstop I can count on." Or somesuch.
Whereupon Whitey "templeton'ed" his starting shortstop to San Diego, taking back a slick-fielding kid who could flip sky-high handsprings on his way out to his position. Or, occasionally, while turning a double play. Whitey got a shortstop who loved to play the game, and the St. Louis Cardinals of the 1980's became the Kansas City Royals of the 1970's. St. Louis' quasi-dynasty hasn't let up much since.
