Thanks to Manny Machado for making me remember my old "clear speech" tag.I asked Manny Machado how he would assess the 2025 season. Here is what he said to me. @CBS8 | #FightForTheFaithful #Postseason #Padres pic.twitter.com/es85lKSj99
— Jake Garegnani (@JakeGaregnani) October 3, 2025
ADDED: I felt like I hadn't used it in a long time, but clicking on the tag now, I see I use it a lot. I like when people speak very directly. Using the tag, for me, is like giving an award. I acknowledge achievement in clear speech.
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Not true. The season has lots to it to assess. Otherwise they'd just play one game and be done with it.
is it for the player to assess or coach and management and agents?
…you an ax better questions than that, c’mon…
The great American golfer David Feherty was axed long ago why the Europe has come to dominate the Ryder Cup: They show up and play better golf.
Sports talk... made simple. Approve.
The baseball player is sad and feels like he needs to lash out at some peon reporter to stroke his pathetically fragile ego. These dirtbag reporters are essentially the help. It's a well known metric of a person's character when you see how they treat the help.
Alan Watts said it well:
The existence, the physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That is to say, it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at.
But that it is best understood by the analogy with music. Because music, as an art form is essentially playful. We say, “You play the piano” You don’t work the piano.
Why? Music differs from say, travel. When you travel you are trying to get somewhere. In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. And there would be composers who only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord… Because that’s the end!
Same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance.
The baseball player is sad and feels like he needs to lash out at some peon reporter to stroke his pathetically fragile ego. These dirtbag reporters are essentially the help. It's a well known metric of a person's character when you see how they treat the help.
Alternate view - Machado is one of the team's stars, and he (and the other stars) performed poorly in the Wildcard round, leading to their elimination, and he interpreted the question as "you just ruined what was otherwise a good season, didn't you?"
Apparently he didn't get the memo re "feelings". One alpha male, still standing, still willing to politely state "bullshit" to the "feelings".
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
"rehajm said...
The great American golfer David Feherty was axed long ago why the Europe has come to dominate the Ryder Cup: They show up and play better golf."
Faherty is American now, but when he golfed he was still Irish. He even played for Europe in the Ryder Cup. He retired in 1997, and became American in 2010. He was a good but not great pro, 5 wins in Europe in 21 years. And Europe's success in the Ryder Cup is a more modern thing. "Long ago" the US dominated.
Somebody who knows a lot about music once said "there are no wrong notes, only bad resolutions."
Being a "sports journalist" (so-called) has gotta be the toughest thing of all because these guys just don't know how to talk to the press. Sports journalism is simply box scores, stats, and a few pithy quotes, if you're lucky and can get them.
Manny Machado is now and always has been a dirtbag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYTSt9sAdrk
Billy Beane had it right. The playoffs are a crapshoot, especially in a 3 game Wildcard series.
I couldn't hear his voice, but I see Machado is smiling through the answer. That would seem like an honest reaction. We just lost our chance in the playoffs. To the team, that is a huge loss. Machado is a solid performer but he was 1-for-10 in this playoff series, a solo homerun. If a reporter asks a player for a long-term assessment of the season, what possible other answer could a competitor make? We lost, dude. We got to the playoffs but lost in the first round. I couldn't hit my way out of a paper bag. You assess it.
Go Cubs!
Brewers will dominate!
"GatorNavy said...
Brewers will dominate!"
We'll see. Cubs won the season series.
I dont remember the details (GIFY) but an NFL player was reprimanded & fined once for refusing to talk with the media. His only response thereafter to was to answer every question asked with "I am just here so I dont get fined again." (Paraphrase) We never see this response from pols, spin doctors, sports, or showbiz types though. An obnoxipusly honest response though. And so it goes.
"Manny Machado is now and always has been a dirtbag."
Yep. I used to follow the Dodgers and was disappointed when they traded for him. I was glad to see him go to San Diego the following year.
"Deep State Reformer said...
I dont remember the details (GIFY) but an NFL player was reprimanded & fined once for refusing to talk with the media."
That was Marshawn Lynch when he was with the Seahawks.
Sports reporters are known for their stupidity and their far-left politics. The two often go hand in hand. They get stuck in the "Toy Department" of News, and they try to prove how serious they are by being very political and following the party line.
A Dumbass like Kieth olbermann was a perfect example. In the sports word he was "Mr. Intellectual" because he could spout stats off the top of his head. Then he went to news and screeches out nonsense.
In any case, I never understood the point of talking to players after a game, unless you're going to ask about THE GAME. As in, why did you do this in the 4th inning. Or what your plan if the opposition did this. Asking how they "Feel" is dumb.
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