McGwire gives me hope

by traphicg on Oct 27, 2009 11:39 AM EDT

Hey ya'll - i've brought this up before but didnt hear much about it. Or, rather, dont remember hearing much about it. Its something i've been thinking about for a long while, ever since Chip helped Mac with his swing a few years back. I bring it up now because its been hard to hear about ANYTHING else in St. Louis than the new batting coach, but also b/c its the offseason (Yankees suck).

Do you think Chipper could, would, or should be our future batting coach?

I personally think he should. I also think that if Bobby was a bit younger and had more on a contract, Chip for sure WOULD. Right now, given the new hirings and changing face of the front office, I'm not so sure.

But my deep down gut (heart) feeling thinks (hopes) that in the next several years, we'll see Chip as batting coach and Smoltz as pitching coach.

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Seconded

Been saying that for at least a year now. I also think there is no one better suited than The Professor to succeed Bobby, but I don’t know what it would take to coax him out of retirement. But I think you’re right on the money, Chip is more qualified than most to come back as a hitting coach. I’d love to see it happen.

by J-Freak on Oct 27, 2009 12:02 PM EDT reply actions

Might be wishful thinking, but I’d be happy if Smoltz would come back to the organization and Chipper remain in some capacity.

Whether it’s a hitting or pitching coach or something else.

by Sparhawk on Oct 27, 2009 12:03 PM EDT reply actions

Chipper was Frenchy's batting coach last winter...

and look how that turned out.

i’m just sayin’.

by apoxonbothyourhouses on Oct 27, 2009 12:16 PM EDT reply actions

You have to have something to start with.

I mean, who do you think he is? Leo Mazzone?

by FineHamAbounds on Oct 27, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Can’t make a gold bar from a pile of cow shit. The alchemy myth is dead.

by J-Freak on Oct 27, 2009 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions

hahaha nice

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by Scott Coleman on Oct 27, 2009 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions

actually if modern physics has shown anything… alchemy might actually be possible

Heyward,Hanson,and Shaffer r ready now!! Why do you think they havent signed the "right handed bat"?

by fatazfoot on Jan 7, 2009 8:59 PM EST

by Swo12bv on Oct 27, 2009 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Buzzkill

by J-Freak on Oct 27, 2009 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Well

McGwire was Holliday’s, and that didn’t exactly turn out well either.

If Albert played in the AFL, they’d have to rename it the AZ/NM Fall League, based on where his homers landed.

by Yakker on Oct 27, 2009 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah....

so was Rudy “supposed to be the best batting coach who ever existed” Jaramillo. Frenchy can withstand even the best instruction.

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti

by sddbaker on Oct 27, 2009 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions

lol

Heyward,Hanson,and Shaffer r ready now!! Why do you think they havent signed the "right handed bat"?

by fatazfoot on Jan 7, 2009 8:59 PM EST

by Swo12bv on Oct 27, 2009 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions

salaries

what type of salaries do pitching/batting coaches make? Anyone know Bobby’s salary??

by traphicg on Oct 27, 2009 1:41 PM EDT reply actions

From Cot's Contracts...

Bobby Cox Manager
1 year (2006), plus extensions through 2010

    * 1 year (2006), plus extension through 2009
          o signed extension through 2007 with Atlanta 3/06
          o signed extension through 2008 with Atlanta 4/07 (salary of about $3M)
          o signed extension through 2009 with Atlanta 5/23/08 (salary of about $3M)
          o signed extension through 2010 with Atlanta 9/23/09
    * 1 year (2004), plus 2005 club option
          o signed extension 3/03 (expected to pay about $1.5M-$2M/year)
          o club exercised 2005 option worth about $2.6M 4/04
    * 2 years (1998-99), plus 2000 club option
          o signed extension 6/14/96
    * 2 years (1996-97), signed extension 7/22/95
    * 2 years/$0.7M (1994-95)
          o signed extension paying more than $0.35M annually 12/19/92
    * assumed managerial duties 6/1990, giving up GM post after 1990 season
    * 5 years/$2.25M (1986-90)
          o hired as Atlanta GM 10/23/85
          o at signing, most lucrative contract ever given a GM

People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again.

by mvandonsel on Oct 27, 2009 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions