#baseball

Only 12 managers have lasted more than three years with the Indians, and only three of those who did last longer than three years managed to do so without a winning record. The Indians have made strides in many areas the last three years and the shifts and changes amongst the coaching staff resulted in a highly respected group that was anxious and ready to guide the Tribe back to the postseason, but unfortunately it never materialized. Turns out the three-year threshold is a pretty solid limit for how patient an organization is when it comes to managers, and the gains made in 2011 were completely lost and then some in 2012. Acta’s tenure with the club came to an end with six games left on the 2012 schedule. He ranks 13th in franchise history for games managed, but any optimisim regarding the Tribe in 2013 will rest squarely with new hire Terry Francona. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-quotes #baseball-stats #cleveland-indians #major-league-baseball #manny-acta

A baseball manager is a necessary evil. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#evil #manager #necessary #necessary evil

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#life

Baseball is only dull to dull minds ↗

— Red Barber

#awesome

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #fundamentals #games #kids #learn

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#around #baseball #fun #have fun #i

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ↗

— James Patrick Murray

#anywhere #ball #baseball #curve #except

The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#anyone #baseball #cap #carriers #drivers

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#against #artificial #baseball #behind #enforcing

I wish that they had the freedoms like the Japanese and the Koreans and the Mexicans and everybody else that has that freedom to come over here and play the game, because I know Cuba has a very strong baseball history. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#baseball history #because #come #cuba #else