February 11, 2006
Miss Bowden Yet?
By
Amanda
Posted at 12:38 am
I didn't really read the entirety of this Q&A with Jim Bowden in floridatoday.com, but the first sentence makes it all worthwhile:
Wearing a windbreaker and offering a fist bump instead of a handshake, Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden looked anything but formal earlier this week at Space Coast Stadium in Viera.
A windbreaker and a fist bump. That's awesome. Does he also call everyone “G dawg”?
The second sentence ain't bad either:
Bowden, once the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball, doesn't always fit the image of buttoned-down executive.
C'mon, statheads! Where were all you guys calling for the youth movement when Bowden got the axe?
As a lifelong Reds fan who now lives in Washington, I can’t escape the guy. His moves are as disliked by Nats fans as much as they were by Reds fans (and judging from all of the ex-Reds he signs, he hasn’t gotten over the fact that he was fired in Cincinnati.) Brandon Larsen? Come on! So far this year, he’s signed every hasbeen and neverwas for infield positions (including Soriwhino without asking if he would switch to the outfield) as well as such flops as Ramon Oritz.
Cheers.
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Welcome, Daedalus. You’ve hit it on the head with Bowden and his ex-Reds. I imagine that he’s hoping he’s going to pick up one of those guys, work his magic, and then laugh that he made a star out of a guy the Reds couldn’t figure out.
More power to him, I guess. I’m not a Nats fan, after all.