Friday, November 18, 2005
Bowden and Lucchino, TNT and Kerosine
Starring The Boston Media As The Match:
"At the Reds' winter organizational meetings sometime in the middle 1990s, General Manager Jim Bowden challenged the scouts with the names of premier hitters from the early 1990s -- names like Jeff Bagwell, Robin Ventura and Frank Thomas. Bowden asked his scouts a tough question: 'What do all these guys have in common?'
'They're All-Stars,' one replied.
'They're all .300 career hitters,' came another response.
Bowden knew all along he wouldn't hear the right answer from this group.
'You guys said they couldn't play for us,' he spat back at the scouts.
That moment is Jim Bowden in a nutshell, dynamic and indelicate, alert and alienating. But also making a worthwhile point. "
"At the Reds' winter organizational meetings sometime in the middle 1990s, General Manager Jim Bowden challenged the scouts with the names of premier hitters from the early 1990s -- names like Jeff Bagwell, Robin Ventura and Frank Thomas. Bowden asked his scouts a tough question: 'What do all these guys have in common?'
'They're All-Stars,' one replied.
'They're all .300 career hitters,' came another response.
Bowden knew all along he wouldn't hear the right answer from this group.
'You guys said they couldn't play for us,' he spat back at the scouts.
That moment is Jim Bowden in a nutshell, dynamic and indelicate, alert and alienating. But also making a worthwhile point. "
-2003 article on Bowden...the year he was canned
