http://www.achicagoblog.com/chicago/alfonzo-soriano-ouch/ Living and breathing in the Second City Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:12:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.achicagoblog.com/chicago/alfonzo-soriano-ouch/#comment-1995 patrick Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:25:52 +0000 http://www.achicagoblog.com/?p=452#comment-1995 I worry about whether the players think they can't survive without him, the whole team machismo thing. They got hot the first time he went down, and played very well without him. Now that they have an honest-to-gosh big league center fielder, they can put Johnson in left and I'll be there's no dropoff. In fact, I predict that the story line of this successful season is how brilliant management was by taking a (minimal) chance on Edmonds and how he sustained us in the dark (but increasingly frequent) days of Soriano downtime. (your Captcha words are Utley & Responsibility - Chase Utley has been used as a Soriano hand injury analogy elsewhere - SCARY!) I worry about whether the players think they can’t survive without him, the whole team machismo thing. They got hot the first time he went down, and played very well without him. Now that they have an honest-to-gosh big league center fielder, they can put Johnson in left and I’ll be there’s no dropoff. In fact, I predict that the story line of this successful season is how brilliant management was by taking a (minimal) chance on Edmonds and how he sustained us in the dark (but increasingly frequent) days of Soriano downtime. (your Captcha words are Utley & Responsibility - Chase Utley has been used as a Soriano hand injury analogy elsewhere - SCARY!)

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