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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
Part II Of Blue Notes' Ned Colletti Interview
Which is here, and one interesting comment that came up:
BK: We grew up in St. Louis in the 80s so we know you can win without huge power bats. But there's been a lot of talk about the Dodgers not getting that big bat at last year's trade deadline or during this offseason. On the other hand, the team scored plenty of runs last year and proved you can win without hitting home runs. Does that make a big bat not as high a priority to you or just something you don't want to overpay to acquire? Or is it that there just isn't one to be had so far?Once again, trades are getting harder to do. And then there's this, perhaps eliptically about Barry Bonds:
NC: Well, again, the number of candidates that would fill that type of role is a short list. Secondarily, acquiring them is tough to do. You'd have to practically blow somebody away to do it. In our discussions with teams, those types of players are never brought up over the last year in talks with the other side. When I bring them up, it's like, "Whoa, whoa! Before we do something like that, you're gonna have to unload half your farm system." They're not even thinking about moving that kind of player.
BK: Regarding the recent Hall of Fame voting, without getting into the specifics of individual players but just as a baseball fan, is it upsetting to you to see the game entering an era where for maybe the next fifteen years or so, the discussion has become as much about drugs as it is on-field accomplishments.I guess he wasn't around in Boston when Ted Williams was working in left...
NC: Yeah, it does. It's disappointing that it's evolved into that type of discussion. But I don't sound naive here, either. I was just talking to a friend of mine about this yesterday. When I grew up watching baseball-- let's forget about baseball. When I grew up watching professional sports, you rarely heard anything negative about anybody. It was rare that anybody ever got into any trouble, or held out, or wouldn't play hard. It was such a rarity, it was in the mind of a young person, it was almost pure. Young people growing up today, my kids are in their twenties now, they've never experienced the "purity" of sports and athletes. It's naive to think back when I was growing that they were all pure, because they weren't. But that it's such a public (thing), it's so much tied to the world now and tied to life, it's kind of unfortunate that young people today, they look at players that they want to emulate, to wear their jersey or play the game in a (similar) manner, in a batting stance like their hero, shoot baskets like their hero, or skate like their hero, there's a chance that person is going to end up with a note in the newspaper that's going to be less than noble, I guess.
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