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I will forever remember Bobby's rant against the Mariners sending him down in the Spring of 2004.  He was livid that the Mariners were never actually running a competition in Spring Training and had always planned to keep the Kevin Jarvises and send the Madritsches down no matter what.
That's what Mike Carp reminded me of last year, getting tossed in his first minor league game after getting sent back down, stewing in (self?) righteous anger about the injustice being done to him.
Madritsch did make it back after proving the Ms wrong - not that it really helped him or us - but that FIGHT, that competitive fire to get back up on the mound or to the plate and go best 2 out of 3, or 3 out of 5, or 39 out of 77...
That's the DNA I want to stock this team with.
I don't think Peguero has it, actually.  He doesn't grind himself to dust over failure like Saunders, but his "Eh, I'll get em next time" is more wistful than vengeful.  Felix used to gnash teeth after a bad event and let it give way to a bad inning and then a bad game.  I think a certain amount of bad intention is important for success.
Luckily we've improved the talent in our fighting categories over that in our excuse making categories markedly in the last couple of years.  It bodes well for our success in the 162-game fights in the coming years.
~G