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The Willie Mays-Hayes Rule

OK, so I just bought the latest release of the original Major League DVD, and I was reminded of the rule installed by the manager where if Willie Mays-Hayes hit a pop fly, he had to do a set number of push-ups as punishment (cough)--I mean as training. Watching our Sparkplug WS MVP this season pop-up waaaay too many times thus far has me thinking that Tony needs to install this rule. If nothing else, he can grit and hustle his way through them. What do you all think? Shoot...there are 5 or 6 guys in the lineup that would be doing nothing but push-ups for days.

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That reminds me
of a deal Ozzie Smith and Whitey Herzog had when Ozzie forst came to the Cardinals.  To get Ozzie to hit the ball on the ground, they had a standing bet.  Everytime Ozzie hit a ball in the air, he paid Whitey $1.  Every ground ball Ozzie hit cost Whitey $1.  

I'm not sure what they did on line drives, but it seems Eck is constantly hitting the bottom of the ball which is an indicator of either lack of strength or he's trying to pull everything.  It's proabbly a combination of the 2.

by Schnick24 on May 12, 2007 11:11 AM EDT reply actions  

I'd say make it $20 a popup...
...but Eck would be broke in a week.

He's got to get something going soon, or he'll be lucky to find a team next year.  This is a walk year, and so far, he's done nothing but struggle, both with the glove and with the bat.

by Phyrkrakr on May 12, 2007 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

call me crazy but i want to keep eck
The shortstop free agent pool is pretty empty this offseason
Jason Marquis still sucks.

by kyle man on May 12, 2007 3:58 PM EDT reply actions  

ss
Michael Young
Carlos Guillen
Juan Uribe
Cesar Izturis
Omar Vizquel
Royce Clayton
Neifi Perez

not that they are great,  but the Cards always have avg, low power middle infielders.  Besides Renteria who had some pop, we haven't seen strong wood in the middle IF for years.

by DuncanDipper on May 12, 2007 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

haha
and Young and Guillen are the only guys on that list worth having.
On with the youth movement!

by aet15 on May 12, 2007 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

Izturis
He would probably sign a 1 year deal and is a GG caliber defender.  Doesn't hit much, but I'd take a 1 year stop gap over three more years of Ecky.
DFA Wils....Arghhh!!! I can't even figure out who I hate the worst right now.

by bobbyballgame1 on May 14, 2007 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

You are crazy.
I think we'd be much better off just signing a stop-gap rather than committing another 3 years to the rapidly declining spark plug.

It's time for new plugs and wires...that's why the engine is running so poorly.

DFA Wils....Arghhh!!! I can't even figure out who I hate the worst right now.

by bobbyballgame1 on May 14, 2007 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

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