Crash Course
06-23-2004, 01:18 PM
Can you put a dollar sign on bitching in the clubhouse?
http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/story/7442888
"We had two starters on this team say that the bullpen needs to step it up," Arthur Rhodes said. "You shouldn't say that. You shouldn't say that. If we lose as a team, we all lose. If we win as a team, we all win. You can't have two starters saying that.
"If you're not man enough to come to somebody on the field and tell them to do a better job, don't say in the paper that we're doing a bad job. ...
"It's one of those things where if they can do better, they can go nine innings. Let 'em go nine innings."
Though Rhodes declined to name which two starting pitchers were the focus of what he said was a main topic of the bullpen conversation during Oakland's 10-3 loss Monday night, Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder last week spoke in generalities that the club's bullpen needs to step it up.
http://www.cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/story/7442888
"We had two starters on this team say that the bullpen needs to step it up," Arthur Rhodes said. "You shouldn't say that. You shouldn't say that. If we lose as a team, we all lose. If we win as a team, we all win. You can't have two starters saying that.
"If you're not man enough to come to somebody on the field and tell them to do a better job, don't say in the paper that we're doing a bad job. ...
"It's one of those things where if they can do better, they can go nine innings. Let 'em go nine innings."
Though Rhodes declined to name which two starting pitchers were the focus of what he said was a main topic of the bullpen conversation during Oakland's 10-3 loss Monday night, Tim Hudson and Mark Mulder last week spoke in generalities that the club's bullpen needs to step it up.