When recently asked by Shatraw to provide his excuse for a HORRIBLE team this year, Eick gave us this wonderful reply:
“No excuse per se. I look at my team and I still think my team is solid.
I think I’ve just been caught in the perfect storm of nearly ALL my guys getting off to terrible April’s hitters slumping and pitchers getting rocked – nearly everyone on my team.
It has to balance out. I think I’m due for a big turnaround at some point, but it’s certainly looking painfully bad right now.”
I’m not sure what’s more sad; that Eick believes his team will do any upward climbing in the standings, or that he boiled his teams awful existence down to “a perfect storm of nearly ALL my guys getting off to a terrible [start].”
Nothing to translate here. His team is currently 51 points out of first, barely standing up at 37.5 points. I think MY team is terrible and I’m in 6th.
You had a good season, Eick. Enjoy Gary Sheffield.
I finished third. My team, as I had predicted, turned it around.
I thought you might comment on this in retrospect. Whatevs, our league was insane last year. I’ll get you next season, Eick.