Ex-Brave Mazzone wants to get back into coaching
He arises in the early darkness. No alarm jangling in his ears. (“I traveled all those years with the Braves and never needed an alarm clock,”)
Drives to the WCNN studio on Piedmont Road for one of the two “Rude Awakenings” on the local air — one is named for a guy, the other an attitude — and by 10 o’clock it’s over.
He’s free until the next morning. “It’s like every day is an off day,” Leo Mazzone said. “And it stinks.” Not his life in radio, not life in Roswell, which shall always be his home, he says. But life out of baseball, out of that uniform. He enjoys his banter with the radio guys, Christopher and Laurentino and the callers. He gets national exposure occasionally as analyst with Fox on major league games.
But when spring training came last year, and Leo was out of baseball for the first time in 40 years, and nobody came calling, it hit hard. He thought he might make a connection with the Tigers, but Jim Leyland went for a younger man.
Now Leo’s into his second season out of the game and as I found out through a Google search, he’s restless and bored. Spring without baseball hit, and hit hard. The phone rings, but it’s never the right call.
You dial his number and you get a recording of the Notre Dame fight song. He never got to college, but there’s a streak of Notre Dame loyalty deep in his soul. “Why not?” he said. “I’m Italian and I’m Catholic.” He had his chance at college when he was 18 and West Virginia offered him a scholarship,
He turned it down when the Giants offered him a $400 bonus and he set out to see the world through the windows of minor league buses, such sights as
Amarillo, Texas — spent five seasons in that wind-blown town — Decatur, Ill., and even some international time in Monterey, Mexico. It was noticeable, that when he returned to that Mexican city a few seasons ago with the Braves it reminded him only of “Montezuma’s revenge” and dusty bus rides.
“I spent 24 years pitching and coaching in the minor leagues, then 18 in the majors. I want back in that uniform. The radio people have treated me wonderfully, and I’m still living well. Just let it be known that salary is no issue.”
After all those glorious seasons of Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz and Avery, it all began to come apart just when he struck gold — as it seemed then.
He and Sam Perlozzo had grown up together in western Maryland. “My best friend,” Leo said.
Sam was hired to manage the Orioles, he hired his old pal Leo to be his pitching coach. A juicy contract, doubling what he made with the Braves, and so Leo was off to paradise.
Except the paradise turned to hell. The Orioles’ ERA suffered serious inflation, Sam was fired and four months later, Leo followed. “If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t do it,” Leo has told his 680 the Fan audience. “Believe me, there are differences in baseball organizations, and I found out the Braves are as good as it gets.”
He’s living a good life, even rolling out of bed before dawn. And talking, which is something he’s good at. Old pal Sam is back at work again, third base coach at Seattle. Leo? Doing well, if you like a milkman’s hours.
If there’s a club owner out there who has a vacant uniform and a taste for football fight songs, give Leo a ring.
“Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame……”
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RA
March 18th, 2009
6:52 pm
I’ll tell you what. Any owner could do a lot worse than to call up Leo and make him the next pitching coach for his or her major league ballclub!
Barney Strickland
March 18th, 2009
8:12 pm
Leo Mazzone- What a used up old blow-hard. Anyone would have had success with Smoltz/Glavine/Maddux on staff. The gneral manager was the hall of famer…..not this self inflated loser. If he was so great, how come he had not positive effect on the Orioles? Imagine if we had someone else all those 14 seasons…. You went for the money so now you should GO AWAY & STAY AWAY LEO LOSER !!!!
Cat Man Do
March 18th, 2009
8:44 pm
Why not Atlanta? From what I saw last year, pitching is what is needed. Can we not stand too much of a good thing?
renegade
March 18th, 2009
9:49 pm
Full time roving pitching instructor. Sounds like a title and a job.
The braves could do worse. Leo has a butt load of knowledge and farm teams galore to spread it amongst, I say bring him back and let him work his magic.
Poorbrave
March 18th, 2009
10:47 pm
I’d take Leo back in a heart beat. Leo would make a great mgr.
Barney get a life…you know not what you’re talking about. It was more than money and he regrets it now.
Ken Stallings
March 19th, 2009
3:31 am
Leo no doubt was an excellent pitching coach for the starters. His Camp Leo alone earns him high praise. But, he was at time ascerbic, especially with young pitchers. This accounted in part for poor performance by Leo’s bullpens.
Baseball people look just as hard at Leo’s failures. His most noteworthy failure was with Mark Wohlers. Wohlers threw that hanging slider in the World Series and mentally beat himself up. Leo’s unrelenting style contributed to Wohler’s mental block. A pitching coach who could have related better to younger players might have been able to alleviate Wohler’s shocking slide.
Then injuries beset other pitchers. The list is rather long starting with Steve Avery. Leo’s penchant for toughness worked well for the Hall of Fame starters, but what about others like Avery and Kent Mercker? Didn’t work out to well for them. Remember, in 1991 the Braves had four star pitchers (the Young Guns). Only two of them fulfilled their early promise.
Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz hardly needed a pitching coach. Yes, Leo’s methods helped all of them. But a more professional collection of starters you won’t find. Leo had the three best in that era of baseball.
So while Leo rightly earns praise, he must also analyze the more objective reasons why his phone isn’t ringing with a job offer. He may eventually get one, but if he was the pitching coach genius some believe him to be, then baseball GM’s and managers would be offering him jobs right now. Baseball is a small community and talent is never obscured.
TRobb1
March 19th, 2009
6:44 am
Bullpens? You mean Chris Hammond, Darren Holmes, Mike Remlinger, Kerry Ligtenberg? Greg McMichael, Mark Wohlers, Steve Bedrosian? Brad Clontz, Kevin McGlinchy, Rudy Seanez? Where Leo proved you really can get blood out of a turnip?
Better check out some of those bullpen ERAs. I could go on and on. I challenge you, check the numbers during and after Leo. I’ll bet the bullpen and team ERAs are 1.50 higher. I know we don’t have the Aces in their prime, but look at the peripheral players. It’s guys like the ones listed above where he made a difference.
Not to mention marginal starters who pitched well here, like John Burkett, Russ Ortiz, Shane Reynolds, and Jaret Wright, who should send Leo $200,000 a year for life after signing that $32m contract. Damian Moss, Horacio Ramirez. Guys who optimized what they had for a year or two or three under Leo.
He might have been a little harsh for Jason Marquis’ taste, but then, Jason Marquis is a punk. Dave Duncan couldn’t help him, either.
Leo is a pitching genius. Or at least he’s the best pitching coach, maybe of all-time. It’s become in vogue to bash him as out of touch and harsh and to rewrite history such that he didn’t make a difference, but he did. He’s the best EVER.
TCP
March 19th, 2009
7:25 am
Leo had success in baseball and seems like a nice guy on the radio. But, his lack of knowledge with the non-baseball sports is glaring. He probably would be better off with a pure MLB job.
Sharecropper
March 19th, 2009
7:30 am
Well, maybe Old Leo was a fine pitching coach and all that, but five will get you 10 that his “success” coincided with a Braves’ tenure with three Hall of Fame pitchers who enjoyed very long careers. One suspects his job was to stay the hell out of the way.
Mark Windsor
March 19th, 2009
8:07 am
How could any of you bloggers write something bad about Leo..Our pitching staff has had more arm problems since Leo left than one can imagine and there were alot of washed up pitchers who did just fine with leo and Braves only to leave Braves and be a waste of their new team s money big time..lets see Burkett is one,Reynolds,Wright..and a good bit more..and he always had to peice togeather some type of bull penmainly because so much Braves money was invested in Maddox Smoltz and Glavine..Lets dont forget camp leo..Leo was way more sucessful that the guy we have now..this better be a year for him..
ndadome
March 19th, 2009
8:12 am
TCP is correct. .he knows very little about anything other than baseball, and his grammar is awful. .and that laugh is not what I want to hear in the mornings.
PoliticalMan
March 19th, 2009
8:31 am
Unless one is a true baseball insider, it would almost impossible to evaluate Mazzone. But the Braves had some darn good pitchers with Mazzone here and not just the big three or four. I suspect Mazzone has learned a lot, not from his successes, from his failures with the Orioles. I doubt if there are more than a handful of pitching coaches with Mazzone’s ability.
stan
March 19th, 2009
8:47 am
Please bring back Leo!!
Look at the amount of arm problems the braves have had after he left!!!
Dr. Phil
March 19th, 2009
9:08 am
I think that Leo was responsible for Wohlers’ early success, not his melt down. Leo was one of the best, and he was a great baseball character. Surely the Braves can find a spot for him.
Rob
March 19th, 2009
10:16 am
Shoulda never left a good thing Leo.. glad you recognize it! Maybe Bobby will fire whoever they have now who thinks he’s a “coach” and get you back in the dugout rocking as usual.. God knows they could use you.
Brock
March 19th, 2009
11:40 am
If you are on here bashing Leo then I suggest you go get the book “Tales From The Mound”. This gives you insight of where Leo came from and also who he learned from. It’s pretty amazing. The stories he tells about the players for the Braves (Maddux, Smoltz, Avery..etc) are very cool. May give some of you a different opinion about this great coach. Yes, he may not be radio material, but he is more real than most of the so called morning personality out there.
Tom Tucker
March 19th, 2009
7:24 pm
Met him only once…a first class JERK.
you must be joking
March 19th, 2009
8:33 pm
Barney, are you on crack, or did you just move here a couple of years ago? Leo repeatedly took guys off of the scrapheap, Burkett, Wright, Hammond, literally out of, or almost out of baseball and made them into very accomplished pitchers. All three left Leo to go to other organizations for the big payday after Leo saved their careers, and all bombed after leaving. Ligtenberg was acquired for a bag of bats! A bag of bats! No way McMichael is able to have a career without Leo’s input, and the list goes on. Sure Smoltz, Glavine, and Maddux are Hall of Famers, but show me one coach in any sport who is regarded as great that didn’t have at least some great players. Leo’s importance was not in making the Hall of Famers great, but making the scrap heap guys very good.
I say make him the minor league pitching instructor until McDowell’s contract is up, then promote him.
you must be joking
March 19th, 2009
8:35 pm
BTW, met him once in an elevator in an L.A. hotel, and he could not have been any nicer. As a matter of fact, he offered me tickets to the game, being an Atl resident and lifelong Bravos fan, which I couldn’t accept due to business responsibilities. Almost quit my job right there!
Poorbrave
March 19th, 2009
10:40 pm
Sharecropper: If Leo’s career with Braves, coincided with Braves tenure of 3 Hall of Fame pitchers….Then what the he!! does Bobby Cox’s tenure coincide with? The Braves have won nothing without Leo!?!?
jefferson street joe
March 20th, 2009
8:11 am
Barney, that’s like saying Chuck Noll deserves no credit for the Super Bowls he won because he had Franco Harris and Terry Bradshaw and Don Shula had Dan Marino at Miami. Is it too late to send Barney to the space station. Oh, it already launched. Maybe we can get him on the next trip…
darblue
March 20th, 2009
9:25 am
Here are a couple of captions:
Ex-Brave Mazzone wants to get back into coaching
Ex-Journalist Bisher wants to get back into writing pieces that anybody cares about
BA ZING!!!! darblue out.
Cox's caddie
March 20th, 2009
9:25 am
Leo made a name for himself as Bobby Cox’s caddie. You saw the results in Charm City. The first day he said “I made a mistake.” Nice attitude!! If Leo was such a great coach, then he should have at least shown some improvement for the O’s. Both he and Sammy P were in over their heads. Leo didn’t return any of the ca$h did he? Just go away.
Noah
March 20th, 2009
10:32 am
Correction to story: Sam Perlozzo is not third base coach for Seattle this year or even on their coaching staff.
David
March 20th, 2009
10:59 am
I agree with renegade. Have him roam all the minor league teams, even spend some time with Roger. He has a wealth of knowledge and could be taken advantage of across all the teams.
Jerry
March 21st, 2009
9:19 am
Leo’s pitching philosophy is what makes him the best. If you really think that a pitcher like Glavine who has never thrown hard would have had long term success without him, you are off base. Leo’s appreciation for location and change of speed is something that all pitchers should follow. I also think that he is really coming around on the air.
59bulldawg
March 21st, 2009
11:42 am
Surely there is a job in baseball for Leo somewhere! I would hope the Braves would be that team . . . even if it’s the Gwinnett Braves.
stew
March 21st, 2009
8:35 pm
During our great run, the team ERA was greater than any other team’s. Leo was at the helm.Now with McDowell our ERA is higher. Leo was doing something right. The bottom line
is we won with Leo, we’ve lost with Roger.
35YearBravesFan
March 21st, 2009
9:48 pm
Maybe somewhere else, but not here, and not now.
It ain’t hard to be good with 3 HOFers in the stable. And if you think the past several years are because Leo wasn’t here, you need to go look deeper.
GO BRAVES!
David
March 21st, 2009
10:03 pm
Sam Perlozzo, spent last season as Seattle’s third-base coach after 12 years with Baltimore as third-base coach (1996-2000), bench coach (2001-2005) and manager (2005-07). He also coached third base for the Mariners (1993-95), Cincinnati (1990-92) and the New York Mets (1987-89). He joined the Philadelphia Phillies’ coaching staff in Nov.
As for Leo he absoultely needs and deserves to be somewhere in baseball.
7
March 21st, 2009
11:12 pm
This is old news, lets move on please. Time for a new post. 4 days old.
leofan
March 22nd, 2009
12:20 am
Wren and Scherholz get on it bring em back now!
Coach (Skip and Pete will be missed)
March 22nd, 2009
12:48 am
Leo left and the division streak snapped. Coincidence? I think not.
Bobby Cox is the most overrated Hall of Fame manager in major league history.
Leo Mazzone doesn’t get enough credit for the job he did at managing all that great pitching.
Linda
March 22nd, 2009
2:29 am
Leo is a bum pure and simple. He had a ride with the big three and ate it up. Heres the problem with Leo. He hates dealing with the young kids, thats why all ours were traded away. Look at Wainwright, not with us. Either is Jason Marquis or other youngsters that Leo wanted no part of. He wanted the older pitchers that knew their stuff. Well now we have young pitchers and I want no part of Leo. He wasnt that great, we had great pitchers who knew what they were doing. Yes Leo had a great ride on the backs of three of the best and he fell flat on his face when he left. That tells you what hes all about. Hes a fake but our big three were not.
Coach (Skip and Pete will be missed)
March 22nd, 2009
5:43 am
Leo Mazzone spent 40 years in professional baseball and the best that linda can come up with is:
He’s a fake.
I’m willing to bet that you were one of the suckers who voted for Obama? right.
Brenda
March 22nd, 2009
6:22 am
Leo is a loudmouth and a dumbass. He was “right place right time” with smoltz, glavine and maddux there. He didnt make those guys the pitchers they are (but he thinks he did). He was exposed with the Orioles for the fraud he is. Once he was gone, the pitchers KILLED him for being the caustic douchebag idiot he is. What next, Ed Magadan going to take credit for Otis Nixon and Andruw Jones’ greatness in centerfield because of his ability to mow grass? Gimme a break and good riddance, Leo.
Poorjeff
March 22nd, 2009
8:19 am
Brenda and Linda=one and the same=the same would apply to Cox if to Leo=Coach (Ship and Pete will be missed) is correct. Get a Life.
Golly
March 22nd, 2009
8:48 am
Since Leo left, almost our entire staff has had Tommy John surgery. Is it coincidience?(sp) Roger McDowell needs to find another pitching staff to blunder.. BRING BACK LEO before our farm prospects are in line for surgery…
Golly
March 22nd, 2009
8:52 am
looked it up coincidence sorry we need spell check
Jumper
March 22nd, 2009
10:08 am
If it is not for the money, how about giving back to a high school, junior college, or local college that would benefit from his experience?
jumper
RandyB
March 22nd, 2009
10:20 am
Can’t believe all these so call baseball fans talking bad about Leo. It’s just funny here. I’ll say Roger has done good with alittle hick-up. But he was not a Leo with the pitcher he had.
A good place for Leo might be Gwinnett, for right now with Hanson about to come up to the major.
LowCountryBravo
March 22nd, 2009
11:34 am
Braves haven’t been in the playoffs since Leo and Furcal left.
Darrin "The Vent King"
March 22nd, 2009
12:07 pm
Wow- Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz didn’t need a pitching coach? Smoltz? Really? Isn’t Smoltz the one who needed a red (shirt) target held up behind home plate cause he could throw it hard but not STRAIGHT? Didn’t he have that mental block at the start of his career here? Wasn’t he a project? That’s how we got him from the Tigers in the first place people and guess who helped him through that. And its not Leo’s fault Steve Avery (who even admitted it himself) understandably was mentally shook after the premature birth of his child and was never the same or that Mark Wohlers suffered a similar fate when his wife took him to the cleaners. AND Glavine wasn’t BORN pitching that way folks, yes he had talent but he did have someone help him perfect that talent. He did not do it by himself. Okay, I’ll give you Maddux, but let me put it this way- even Michael Jordan had a coach. No, Leo was not perfect as so many of you here like to point out, but then again who is? His positives far outweigh anything he might have done negatively (like ditching us for the $$$). I say bring him back, how in the world could it hurt to have that type of knowledge around? We forgave Glavine for going to the NY Muts, er um Mets I mean, for the $$$ so why not Leo? You know the young pitchers would love to have him around, he’d be a legend to those guys. It would be crazy not to bring him back. Get ‘er done Braves!
Divorced & Heartbroken Braves Fan
March 22nd, 2009
1:22 pm
Frankly, I’d like to get back into my ex-wife.
Roja
March 22nd, 2009
1:26 pm
Actually we won with Glavine, Maddux and Smoltz HEALTHY and we lost with them un-healthy of gone. Leo was just along for the ride – as was Cox. Scheurholz was the genius of the winning streak!!!
Heartbroken Braves Fan
March 22nd, 2009
1:50 pm
Frankly, I’d like to get back into my ex-wife.
Henry Halloran
March 22nd, 2009
3:18 pm
The fact of the matter is what another poster already pointed out. Baseball is too small of a community to have “forgotten” about Leo Mazzone. If baseball peolpe really felt Leo could make a difference on their staff, he would have been hired. Im glad he admits that he made a mistake but its time for Braves fans to get over Leo Mazzone.
LilvininAL
March 22nd, 2009
6:16 pm
Leo is like a free agent, the market is gone for ex pitching coaches wirh big egos. The Braves have employed many ex coaches fired from other teams over the years. I think Leo and Andruw are similar, they rate themselves higher than other major league teams rate their ability.
Youngerthan Thatnow
March 22nd, 2009
8:25 pm
All this friggin’ talk about Cox and Leo along for the ride and Schuerholz was the genius… anybody could have won with Maddux, Smoltz and Glavine… Wohlers and Avery – they were good but Leo ruined them or they were marginal and Leo helped them. This young pitcher or that young pitcher – they couldn’t relate to Leo or they could totally relate to Leo.
Has anybody here ever seen a puzzle… one piece by itself is just… well, a piece of a puzzle. But you put it all together and it becomes a completed picture. That is what all of these parts were/are with the Braves… or any other successful team that you want to talk about.
Earl Weaver wasn’t a genuius when he managed in the old Georgia/Florida league down in Fitzgerald but when you gave him, Robinson, Robinson, Palmer, Belanger, Powell, Cuellar, Johnson and all those other great Orioles… all of the sudden he becomes the greatest thing to hit Baltimore since the doctor slapped Babe Ruth’s naked a$$!
The Braves were and are a TEAM!! It takes every one to make it happen including Cox, Leo, Schuerholz, Gant, Justice, Lightenburg, Deon, Skates, (yeah, he got fooled on Pendleton’s hit to left… but the Braves wouldn’t have been in that series or game without him that year.) Belliard and even the clubhouse boys during those years!
It’s called being a part of a TEAM… take anyone away and it’s not the same and add anyone else and it’s not the same.
Just sign me… Proud To Wear The Tomahawk For 43 Years!!
varoadrunner
March 22nd, 2009
9:53 pm
The only question I have about Leo’s time in Atlanta is: If he was so bad (?) why was his pitching staff so injury free during his tenure?
He handled his pitching staff in a manner many tried to duplicate and had a injury free staff. Can we say that now? Absolutely not! And I’m not talking about our senior pitchers like Glavine and Smoltz…. look at the list….. If Leo could minimize the injury factor, it would be worth at least 20 games won – at least last year.
Roger McDowell hasn’t shown me anything….. I’m not sure how to grade his work, but he hasn’t excelled at anything. At least Leo conditioned his pitchers.
varoadrunner
March 22nd, 2009
10:01 pm
Maybe the rumor that Cox and Leo didn’t see eye to eye was true. It seems that someone like Leo would have been welcome back here, but maybe there’s something about Cox and McDowell we don’t know. Cox’s loyalty to a pitching coach that has clearly failed is perplexing.
Brenda
March 22nd, 2009
10:06 pm
hard to believe if Leo was worth a dam that ALL of MLB wont touch him.
richbrave
March 22nd, 2009
10:56 pm
HEY FURMAN:
How often have you seen a player like ANDRUW JONES. There must have been a few.
WV Brave
March 23rd, 2009
9:24 am
When did the Braves drop out of 1st Place? When did the pitching staff turn into, well a minor league staff? When Leo left. I am sure just about anyone would have taken more money to work with your best friend, so you cant blame him for really leaving. Bring him back, as a consultant for the farm teams = we forgave Glavine for leaving us and going to the METS so we should do the same with Leo. Personally I would go after Maddux as a pitching coach or wait till Smoltz and Glavine retire and hire them and get rid of Roger.
Henry Halloran
March 23rd, 2009
11:58 am
To all of the posters claiming Schuerholz was the reason for the winning steak:
- Who was the GM that drafted Tom Glavine?
- Who was the GM that traded for John Smoltz?
- Who was the GM that drafted Chipper Jones?
- Who was the GM that drafted David Justice?
Bobby Cox, that’s who. For those of you that want to keep insisting that Schuerholz was the reason for all of the success, your ignoring a huge component, Bobby Cox. Both men played substantial roles in brining all of those division titles to Atlanta.
Andre "Pulpwood" Smith
March 24th, 2009
9:48 am
Dear Furman I am disgusted with the way old people are depicted in your newspaper. We are not all vibrant, fun loving sex maniacs. Many of us are bitter, resentful individuals who remember the good old days when entertainment was bland and inoffensive. The following is a list of words I never want to see in the AJC again. Number one: bra. Number two: horny. Number three: family jewels
Bud Wood
March 24th, 2009
1:04 pm
Tell it like it is, Pulpwood!
I think only insiders really know what Leo’s value was but what I don’t like is the way he has lobbied for Roger MeDowell’s job. Every interview I heard form him over the last two years sounded the same, “Gee Golly, I’m so sorry I left the Braves. They’re the greatest. I wish I was back.” He sounds like some high school kid whose girl dumped him. Very thin.
Sorry for this, Pulpwood, but if I was Roger, I’d hit him in the “family jewels”!
Batman
March 24th, 2009
11:25 pm
Braves when down hill fast without Leo around.
Glavine
March 24th, 2009
11:29 pm
I don’t want Leo even in the ballpark.
Bill
March 25th, 2009
1:17 am
I get a kick out of these leo bashers. If you think that leo was just going for the ride. back in the late nineties he took a staqff of over the hill players and turned it into the bull pen with the lowest team era in baseball. the only thing is that the team was only averaging 3 runs a game and came up short in the post season. throughout most of the nineties and the early 2000s the pitching staff carried a collection of stiffs at the plate. the last five years we havent had a desent pitching staff. last season we had quite a few big boppers and a bull pen that couldnt hold down thier lunch much less a lead then we traded two integral pieces of our offense and we fell apart. during the off season the free agents avoided the braves like the plague. we tried to get peavy and the padres pulled the plug on any deals and then there was the furcal deal that fell through. You cant blame roger on all of that but we havent been the same team without leo. Give it a rest about leos short coming and remember his successes. Hes a great motivater and his work ethic is beyond question. I would wecome him back in a minute
Kevin L.
March 25th, 2009
2:45 pm
Mr. Bisher:
How can I get my hands on the documentary piece on the development of the Myrtle Beach area? I’ve seen it once or twice but can’t find out how to locate it. I only ask you because you are mentioned in it as being one of the four or five main players in the development.
I’d love to get it on a DVD.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Stop the bashing
March 25th, 2009
5:33 pm
Leo is a great guy. I know him personally and both he and his wife are stand up people. It’s dangerous to let your perception of one area of a person’s life skew your total perception of them as a person. Let’s stick to the professional critique…
Gaylord Perry
March 26th, 2009
3:36 pm
Leo taught me how to throw a spit ball.
Joe D. loves Marilyn
March 27th, 2009
8:32 am
Furman,
Wrong…again! Old pal Sam is not the third base coach for Seattle…Bruce Hines is. Check your facts before you write the story…
Selah…
Joe D. loves Marilyn
March 27th, 2009
8:36 am
Furman,
If you had checked…
Sam Perlozzo is now the third base coach for the Philadelphia Phillies…
Selah…
Paschal Malone
April 12th, 2009
1:10 am
I’m in the Phillipines…..give me his number, I just want to hear that ND fighting Irish song
Yes, I’m an Irish catholic
Rob
May 6th, 2009
8:31 pm
Leo Mazzone grew up in rural western Maryland where a paper mill was the best job you could get. I watched Leo pitch for a small catholic school and yes, he was pretty darn good. He has been a constant student of the game and very willing to share his knowledge and experience. When he made the minor leagues, our town was thrilled and we followed his career with great interest. Yeah, he talks a bit rough at times but you had to be tough in the little town he grew up in. Does he deserve another opportunity? Yes. Can he make a difference? Yes. Does he love baseball? No doubt. Leo grew up down valley from Lefty Grove and by most accounts is the most successful athlete to come out of western Maryland, ‘cept for ol’ Lefty. I’m proud of you Leo. Hang in there. Somewhere out there is a kid with your heart who needs your teaching and skills. You will never leave baseball Leo, the game would never allow it. Rob Michael