Arnett to be added?
According to D.W. Norris of The Southern in Carbondale, Ill., the Southern Illinois Miners have released outfielder Brad Arnett and he is expected to join the Wild Things. This was reported on Norris' Miners blog Tuesday and in his story from last night's Miners-Evansville Otters game. Norris, by the way, has ties to Washington County - he's a nephew of Chartiers-Houston athletic director Kurt Kesneck.
Arnett, who also can play third base, was hitting .277 with one home run, five doubles and nine RBI in 47 at-bats for the Miners.
Arnett, who also can play third base, was hitting .277 with one home run, five doubles and nine RBI in 47 at-bats for the Miners.
posted by Chris Dugan at
11:25 PM
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Matt Sutton subtracted, Arnett added?
I wonder what both of them did with both having above average stats?
As for Sutton - he had enough of Jelks already! Me too.
"As for Sutton - he had enough of Jelks already! Me too."
Perhaps, like Sutton, you can get on with your life's work.
Maybe hay can be thrown even better than hotel room furniture...
"We had to spot start somebody and we threw Leonard in there because we thought he could do the job. We found out that he couldn't," Jelks said.
This is why the players love Jelks. He is a great confidence builder.
What was Jelks supposed to say? Maybe something like..... Our starting pitcher had great stuff tonight, no-hit stuff. He was just unlucky. it was pure luck that the hitters were able to put their bats in front of the pitches and the balls kept falling in between our outfielders." ..... Seems like jelks is telling it like it is.
Greg Jelks cares for no one but Greg Jelks! Ask Phil Butch what he really thinks of Greg Jelks or anybody on the Sliders roster for that matter. Better yet check out this quote from the Southern Illinois Miners blog:
Washington outfielder Adam Heffron played for Jelks on Evansville’s 2006 championship team. He said Jelks’ style isn’t for every player.
“He’s tough to play for,” Heffron said. ”If you need somebody to pat you on the back and tell you (that) you did a good job every time you do something right, you’re on the wrong team because he’s not going to do that for you. But, he will let you know when you’ve messed up. He’s an acquired taste.”
You will NEVER hear any of Mazz, Isom or Mark Mason's players speak about them that way, NEVER!
Can't wait until Bill Lee, Leo, Ross and John have finally had enough of him and send him packing from the Frontier League for good. Go back to Australia since you are so proud of what you did for that country!!! Your contribution to baseball in America is ZERO!
"Washington outfielder Adam Heffron played for Jelks on Evansville’s 2006 championship team. He said Jelks’ style isn’t for every player. 'He’s tough to play for. If you need somebody to pat you on the back and tell you (that) you did a good job every time you do something right, you’re on the wrong team because he’s not going to do that for you. But, he will let you know when you’ve messed up. He’s an acquired taste.'"
You must be one of those that always needs to be told you were great when you simply did your job. Your mother must have doted over you during potty training...
Hefron NEVER said Jelks' style was wrong. Just an "acquired taste."
Far too few in this world make people accountable for their actions, or inaction.
Isom, Mazz & Mason's players liked their style. And they've won how many championships?
Perhaps, those managers' styles were part of the problem.
Every single player on the Wild Things' roster came in a door that opens the other way too. If they don't like it, they can 1) learn to. 2) learn to deal with it. 3) use the same door they came in.
Good point. And Heffron thought enough of Jelks to come back and play for him this year. The one common thread from year to year with Wild Things fans is it's ALWAYS the manager's fault and NEVER the player's fault. I've never seen a manager strikeout or give up seven runs in two innings while pitching.
There is a log of negative said about Gregg Jelks. It sounds like discipline is on his adjenda which has been missing most of the prior 6 years.
Also, who assembled this team?
Lets give him a chance.
Perhaps the team out of spring training was not his assembled team and he is working on getting good disciplined ball players.
Also, 7 years ago, Washington was one of the nicest places to play in the league. Now, it is in the middle of the pack as far as facilities.
I have been to Chillicote, Florence, River City, Gateway, Evansville, and Kalamazoo in addition of course Washington (7 out of 11 parks). Of these, I would rate the facilities of Washington only better than Chillicote and Kalamazoo.
With only cosmetic improvements to the park and facilities, I would say Washington is not the draw for players it used to be.
What? Llib said something bad about the WT. Boy oh boy the wrath of Hell awaits you llib. Before you know it Host Mom and all her minions will be all over your fanny beating you with all those extra hats and such.
Then you will have ALL those WT apologist climbing up your leg. Don’t you realize what you have done?
Then we have the person the said “I've never seen a manager strikeout or give up seven runs in two innings while pitching.” Well, I’ve never seen a manager, or so-called manager, that consistently allows a pitcher to fall seven runs behind before he walks his lazy arrogant butt to the mound. He looks amazingly like the Energizer Bunny with dead batteries! By the time he wakes up enough to realize what is going on the team is in an almost impossible hole to get out of.
I really don’t think that most players need a “pat on the back” to be motivated. I also don’t think they need a manager that will stab them in the back and ‘snipe’ at them. Jelks just doesn’t know how to manage, baseball, or people. Anybody that thinks Jelks did a great job at Evansville in 2006 has a really bad case of needing a ‘glass belly’. The Otters played less than .500 that year! This years edition of the WT have had a struggle to stay around that mark. Jelks couldn’t manage a 7-11 store in Cambodia.
"Greg Jelks cares for no one but Greg Jelks! Ask Phil Butch what he really thinks of Greg Jelks"
He CHOSE to play for Jelks in Washington AFTER playing for him in Slippery Rock.
That says enough to me about what he thinks about him.
Yes, it says he wanted to play with a team that actually had some home games. Ross invited Butch to play here, not Jelks.
I did speak to Phil Butch, and without getting him in hot water, he chose to play in Washington because of how well the ownership/front office takes care of their players and how supportive the fans are.
Many players USED to view Washington as the premiere place to be in the Frontier League. They do still take excellent care of their players, have great host families, awesome fans and with the exception of the playing surface- a wonderful facility.
When we have a new manager in 2009 the Things will once again return to dominance and have to start a new playoff streak. Can't see us catching Kzoo or Traverse City.
If you criticize Jelks for "winning" the championship in 2006, do you also criticize him for sweeping the overrated Massarelli and his overinflated ego out of the playoffs in 2004?
I am willing to guess many of you fans would love to have Massarelli back right now.
Spoken like a person with a paper head – a true Wild Things apologist.
Jelks did indeed win the championship in 2006 . However, it was pure luck everybody knew it, and certainly had nothing at all to do with good management. If Jelks were half the person he pretends to be then he should be embarrassed, and so should The Frontier League, about the 2006 season. However, they are all so full of themselves they will NEVER, and I mean NEVER, admit how bone headed they can be at times.
We all know by now that this is the way baseball should be played. I mean how could it get any better?
We get to see such good things as not covering a base, not knowing what base to throw to, catchers that don’t have a clue about how to play a pop fly, base running mistakes every game, etc., etc.,!
I know that some of you will say “Sounds like the Pirates to me”. The Wild Things, or ANY other Frontier League team, wouldn’t make a pimple on the Pirates backside.
Well, we can forget all that because baseball the way it should be played is as close as Washington, PA. It’s also cheap enough that I’ll have money left for gas! (I can use it to go see a real game at Altoona). Wow! I sure glad I didn’t waste my money going to watch those screwed up Boston Red Sox – they do not even begin to know how baseball should be played!
“The Frontier League, where baseball careers go to die”.
Have to share with you folks a story about my last trip to Altoona to see the Curve play. It was a few years ago - love going to Blair County Ballpark, great burgers and chicken there, and it was always one of the cleanest parks I've been to. It was a game against the Bowie BaySox. There were three errors in the game committed by pitchers, and none on pickoff plays. One routine ball hit back to the mound was rifled off the backstop on a fly, two others were thrown into the right-field bullpen. The interesting thing is one of the pitchers is now in the majors and the other was a first-round draft pick. There also was a popup hit into very shallow right-centerfield that the Bowie 2B took the scenic route to and the ball fell eight feet to his left.
The point is, you never know what you're going to see when you go to a baseball game. It might be the ball resting on the top of the outfield wall for several seconds like in the Red Sox-Yankees game Friday (anyone see that before?) or the Dodgers winning a game without getting a hit.
That's what I like about baseball. You never know what seemingly routine play(s) is going to alter the outcome. You can't always say that about other sports. For example, when Penn State plays Coastal Carolina in football this year, what is going to be the turning point? Well, it's already happened. It was the call from the Coastal Carolina AD to Penn State to schedule the game that decided the outcome. With baseball, you never know.
Don't know what this has to do with Brad Arnett being added to the roster, but I thought I'd share it everyone.
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