Dave's meeting
Manager Dave Trembley brought the players together for a team meeting today in hopes of lifting some of the weight off them during this 2-9 tailspin.
"It's a new day,'' he said. "It's a nice summer day in Baltimore. Let's just play baseball."
That was the message he tried to get across. The game is supposed to be fun and there's nothing you can do about yesterday. Who knows if it will find its way into the deep recesses of the collective team mentality, but he had to do something.
"Let's just have a little fun playing,'' he said he told the team. "Let' start all over again."
"I usually leave the players alone,'' Trembley added during his pregame media conference. "I talk to a lot of guys one-on-one. Today, I talked to the group as a whole. It's all about basics. Don't worry about what you can't control. Let's not live in the past. Let's all turn the page."
The manager was the only one to talk.
"I'm the only one who needed to talk,'' he said. "I want to make them feel comfortable. We've played 60 games. We've got 102 to go and we're going to win a lot of them. I told them I wouldn't trade them for anybody."
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Comments
must have watch "little big league" where little billy the 9 or 10 yr old grandson of the recently deceased mn. twins owner played by the great jason robards becomes manager of the twins and tells the team in the midst of a horrible slump to 'have fun, it's baseball", my guess is unless the team has a record of .500 or better in the 2nd half of the season trembley is going going gone. the o's promote mike griffin norfolk's pitching coach to the o's pitching coach and bobby valentine is named manager.
Posted by: fkterp | June 12, 2009 6:05 PM
Yea he certainly did need to do something flip over the table holding the pregame meal instead of treating these uninspired players like a bunch of kids. After spending 20 years in the minors i can understand his philosophy but when players are makiing 40,000,00 and 66,000,00 million and are treated like royality you need to flip out once in a while just to get your message across.Pete regarless of what you or roch or anybody say's he is not the right fit for this team.
Posted by: blancione | June 12, 2009 6:38 PM
Dang,i'm agreing with Bob again.That's twice now.
Posted by: Burt from Essex | June 12, 2009 11:29 PM