A history of Royals managers: Jim Frey
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Have you ever known anyone who seems to be in the right place at the right time? Maybe they always luck into a great job. Maybe it’s the friend who always seems to walk away with the pretty girl. Someone who’s born under a lucky star, or as Steven Root says to Woody Harrelson’s character in No Country for Old Men, “you’ve led something of a charmed life, haven’t you?”
Former Royals manager Jim Frey was a bit like that. Frey was born in Cleveland, but later moved to Cincinnati, where one of his best friends (and high school baseball teammate) was Dandy Don Zimmer. He and Zimmer played for the Robert Bentley American Legion Post team which won the national American Legion championship in 1947, a game in which Frey drove in the winning run in the eighth inning of the championship game.
Turn out the lights
I remember Dandy Don, up in the booth on MNF, (he obviously had a few in him), and every time a game would go into garbage time, he’d start singing that line from the Willie Nelson song. I guess if he was still around and watching our entire season turn to garbage time he would be singing right about now.
We are now a very disastrous 1-4 since our high water mark, and are fast becoming a bottom feeder team instead of striving for a playoff spot. Why? What is the main reason for this collapse? Is it Covid, injuries, Carr, the Defense, or just some cosmic joke? To be honest, I don’t think it’s any of that, yes, it may have contributed somewhat, but it isn’t the actual reason.
if he were to do that, with tennessee and ohio in addition to the others, man, i don t know how you rhetorically make the argument it s still an open contest. always what you look for in politics, you look for trend lines, the fact that a week ago santorum was up by seven in ohio, now it s a draw. tennessee, santorum was up by even more. now it s looking like a draw. if romney wins ohio and he wins tennessee, is it time to get the recording of dandy don out singing turn out the lights, the party s over ? it would be the time for that anyway because i love it so much. the reality is or i think that mitt romney will benefit from the bad several weeks the republicans have had that we talked about yesterday because if he wins ohio and tennessee, and if he comes out of today with a lot of delegates, i think it s pretty clear that you re going to see more members of the establishment like we saw over the weekend with eric cantor saying, we ve got to end this thing. if our chance to wi
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