Billy Beane : You can't start Backlund at centre tonight. You'll have to start Lindholm.
Art Howe : Yeah, I don't want to go fifteen rounds, Tre. The lineup card is mine, and that's all.
Billy Beane : That lineup card is definitely yours. I'm just saying you can't start Backlund at centre.
Art Howe : Well, I am starting him at centre.
Billy Beane : I don't think so. He plays for Detroit now.
Art Howe : You *traded* Backlund?
Billy Beane : Yeah. And Ryan, Jankowski, Bennett are all being sent down.
Art Howe : You are outside your mind.
Billy Beane : Yeah. ####oo.
Jeremy Giambi : [knocking on door] You wanted to see me?
Billy Beane : Yeah, Travis, grab a seat.
[Hamonic sits down]
Billy Beane : Travis, you've been traded to the Phillies. This is Chuck Fletcher's number. He's a good guy, he's the GM. He's expecting your call. Buddy will help you with the plane flight. You're a good defenseman, Travis, and we wish you the best.
[Hamonic sighs, and exits]
Billy Beane : Hamonic's gone, too.
Art Howe : [shaking his head in disbelief] You're killing this team.
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Billy Beane : You can't start Backlund at centre tonight. You'll have to start Lindholm.
Art Howe : Yeah, I don't want to go fifteen rounds, Tre. The lineup card is mine, and that's all.
Billy Beane : That lineup card is definitely yours. I'm just saying you can't start Backlund at centre.
Art Howe : Well, I am starting him at centre.
Billy Beane : I don't think so. He plays for Detroit now.
Art Howe : You *traded* Backlund?
Billy Beane : Yeah. And Ryan, Jankowski, Bennett are all being sent down.
Art Howe : You are outside your mind.
Billy Beane : Yeah. ####oo.
Jeremy Giambi : [knocking on door] You wanted to see me?
Billy Beane : Yeah, Travis, grab a seat.
[Hamonic sits down]
Billy Beane : Travis, you've been traded to the Phillies. This is Chuck Fletcher's number. He's a good guy, he's the GM. He's expecting your call. Buddy will help you with the plane flight. You're a good defenseman, Travis, and we wish you the best.
[Hamonic sighs, and exits]
Billy Beane : Hamonic's gone, too.
Art Howe : [shaking his head in disbelief] You're killing this team.
Can someone please clarify this bill 'Babcock' peters thing for me??
Commodore was talking about Babcock in general and I think about James Neal perhaps and said “Bill(y) “Babcock” Peters” in passing without elaborating much further
I’d have to find the interview to get the exact sentence but it was a statement with an implication, but not fully realized, as I recall
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Commodore was talking about Babcock in general and I think about James Neal perhaps and said “Bill(y) “Babcock” Peters” in passing without elaborating much further
I’d have to find the interview to get the exact sentence but it was a statement with an implication, but not fully realized, as I recall
Considering how much he hates Babcock calling Peters "Billy Babcock Peters" is likely insinuates that he's a clone of Mike as I don't think he would label a guy he likes "Babcock".
Peters was an assistant under Babcock in Spokane with the chiefs and took over as head coach 5 years after Babcock moved to the NHL. He wouldn't have brought Peters to the NHL if they didn't have similar philosophies.
All of the Peters=Babcock talk worries me. If you look around the team at the players who are having no fun out there, it's Johnny, Frolik and now maybe Gio. I really hope that mind games arn't being played.
There was always this underlying suggestion that there was a fallout between players leading to a lack of chemistry. Maybe it's something else.
I don't want to start a conspiracy theory, but... well, there's one.
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All of the Peters=Babcock talk worries me. If you look around the team at the players who are having no fun out there, it's Johnny, Frolik and now maybe Gio. I really hope that mind games arn't being played.
There was always this underlying suggestion that there was a fallout between players leading to a lack of chemistry. Maybe it's something else.
I don't want to start a conspiracy theory, but... well, there's one.
I remember being somewhat worried when after the trade for Lindholm and Hanifin both didn't seem very excited during interviews about being re-united, I think Lindholm said "kind of cool" but not really a wonderful type of endorsement from either player. I hope this isn't the case but Johnny,Mony and others look like someone is repeatedly kicking there dogs.
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The Flames wanted Neal out more than the opposite. Though by the time it happened he was likely wanting it too. But all his post-trade comments are rationalizations IMO.
What is about most coaches (particularly NHL/hockey generally) that the default position of their personality is ###hole?
Were they insecure as kids, bullied, unsuccessful? For the most part these guys strike me as inarticulate, certainly not very bright.
What is with the constant f-bomb dropping bully type (see for eg. the HBO series Road to the Winter Classic where Bruce Boudreau could not string a sentence together unless it was full of expletives)?
Does being a ####head motivate players to excel? Because if I had a boss like that I would be out of here before the end of the day.
