In on of the more interesting press conferences of the pre-season, Spanish Harlem Pinata Beaters manager Lou Brown offered a prepared statement. “All right people, we got 10 minutes,” he started, “. I'm not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I'm for wasting sportswriters' time. So I figured we ought to hang around for a while and see if we can give 'em all a nice big shitburger to eat!
He fielded one question. Asked by USA Today journalist Chuck Johnson about managing characters such as Pascual Perez, King Kelly, and Oscar Charleston, Brown simply responded, “My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team.”
Lineup
LF – Jesse Burkett
.C – King Kelly
CF – Oscar Charleston
1B – John Olerud
2B – Cupid Childs
DH – Travis Hafner
3B – Wade Boggs
RF – Ross Youngs
SS – Ozzie Smith
Rotation
SP1 – Jesse Tannehill
SP2 – John Tudor
SP3 – Ed Siever
SP4 – Monty Stratton
SP5 – Arthur Henderson
CL – Hong Chi Kuo and Mike Jackson
SU L – Jake McGee
SU R – Neftali Feliz
Nice team Justin. Putting you down as early favorite.
ReplyDelete-Sean