Quote Originally Posted by Mjoelner34 View Post
Baseball's Junction Boys.
Two things to add:
1. Does anyone remember the visiting coach cancelling a game due to cold weather after his team was dressed and in the dugout when Cohen was coach? Cohen raised all kinds of hell that it should have been a forfeit. Anyway, it rained the night before and maybe earlier in the day and it was about 39 degrees. The visiting team walks into their dugout and sees our non-pitchers practicing lead-offs and cross over steps down the LF line. When they would practice diving back to the bag, they were sloshing water up then would get up and do it again. The coach saw that and knew his ass was whipped and backed out of the game.
2. I went to a fall practice and saw Jake Mangum hauling ass full speed then laying out full horizontal on a sinking liner in the gap during BP. This wasn't freshman Jake Mangum trying to impress and break into the lineup. This was senior Jake Mangum showing what it?s about.
And guys like Mangum and Debrule and then Rowdey and Tanner were given to Lemonis. He inherited them but didn?t have a chance to turn them into Choir Boys wearing their flowing Robes onto the field each night like the last 2 groups.