[NU Sports] Joe Girardi

[cherron604 at aol.com]

It strikes me as more anti-college than anti-Northwestern.  It has always been my impression that career 'baseball guys', i.e. drafted out of high school, learning in the bush leagues, careers built on playing and coaching at various spots, have always distrusted college guys, and I have heard mentioned that real 'baseball guys' don't always like bringing on 'college guys' because they don't learn the game the way 'baseball guys' want them to learn the game.



So I would expect a baseball writer to have more faith in a grizzled baseball guy than in some college guy, who obviously couldn't major in baseball.



Would be interesting to see how many MLB managers are college guys.  I know my guy Ozzie isn't (and I don't think Ozzie has surrounded himself with too many college guys either).



Chuck Herron   Tech '85


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Sent: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 11:03 am
Subject: [NU Sports] Joe Girardi




Didn't take long for a snide reference to Joe G.'s NU degree to surface,  
fter yesterday's debacle:

allace Matthews, Columnist in NEWSDAY (Long Island) writes:

And suddenly, you remembered the one matchup you worried about before the  
eries began, the one between the managers, the one between a novice 
anager  with an engineering degree from Northwestern and another with a PhD in 
dvanced  Postseason Baseball."

http://www.newsday.com/columnists/wallace-matthews/girardi-s-moves-give-ang
ls-hope-to-get-even-1.1533809_ 
http://www.newsday.com/columnists/wallace-matthews/girardi-s-moves-give-angels-hope-to-get-even-1.1533809) 
 
aul Levinson
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