Great Article on Mike

by cupie on Jun 24, 2008 10:40 AM PDT in News Comment 13 comments

Scott Schoeneweis hasn’t played for Mike Scioscia in five years and, in the visitors’ clubhouse at Angel Stadium, there’s no way Scioscia could overhear a conversation from his office across the ballpark.

Yet Schoeneweis lowers his voice and leans in.

“I was always trying to please him,” he says. “I wanted him to like me.”

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Great article.

I love how the first thing Scioscia did with Schoenweis was make him his bitch in front of the whole team. Gotta teach the a-holes some humility.

by Higz on Jun 24, 2008 11:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

neat!

I love the inside-the-clubhouse stories. Fascinating. One more small clue into the minds of those dudes…

by yeswecan on Jun 24, 2008 11:34 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

made me like Schoenweis again

Angels in 08!

by tanana40 on Jun 24, 2008 11:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

aww, Scioscia...

though this pretty much just reinforces his hatred for all things rookie and unquestioned love for vets.

by shiftyeyedgoat on Jun 24, 2008 12:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

great article

"I don’t want any of this to sound like a negative," he says. "It’s what he expected. And I didn’t know any better. What he’s done here and what I was a part of, it’s tremendous. They just win. They find a way to win. Those teams, especially that World Series team, they weren’t the most talented teams. But, they found a way."

That is how i feel about this years team. With the pitching staff thin, our poor run differential, and our low BA, but we still have the best record in the american league.

by kingfish on Jun 24, 2008 12:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

thin pitching staff?

you mean when Lackey was hurt and Escobar still being out?

Angels in 08!

by tanana40 on Jun 24, 2008 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He's talking about Santana's weight...

;)

"Never throw the ball so far over the fence where you can't go back and get it." Chuck Knox quoted through Darryl Henley

by Downing Rules on Jun 24, 2008 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

as of now (escobar still a decent ways away)

our pitchig staff is thin. Who pitches if someone goes down? Adenhart? Moseley?

I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!

by anaheim angels on Jun 24, 2008 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

knock on wood

I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!

by anaheim angels on Jun 24, 2008 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well... since Wood is prone to the strikeout

maybe he’d be a strikeout pitcher.

by TheTypingFiend on Jun 24, 2008 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the pitching staff is deep

the starting staff has 3 aces and 2 good starters (look at most teams 4 and 5 starters and compare them to Garland and Weaver). The bullpen is deep, Frankie, Shields, Jose, and maybe someday even Speier again. If we lose a starter, we would we struggle with a new #5 but what team wouldn’t.

Angels in 08!

by tanana40 on Jun 24, 2008 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs