Patience…and playing hard while waiting
Shit happens…they say. Make lemons out of lemonade. Maybe just keep playing hard and make them sorry they didn’t pay attention to the rules.
Given the battered state of the A’s right now, I am sure that Billy Beane rues the day he sent Hiram back to AAA. At the time I must believe that Billy didn’t realize tha Kielty, Kotsay and Bradley would all end up on the DL so soon in the season. Don’t cry over spilt milk…the deed is already done.
Eleven days from today Hiram will be eligible to join the A’s. But don’t count your chickens before they hatch. In the game of major league baseball nothing is certain.
In the last two days the A’s have added two new players to their club. Both are former team mates of Hiram: albeit Chris Snelling was on the DL during Hiram’s year as a Mariner. The second player added, Jack Cust, was a team mate with Hiram on the River Cats a couple of years ago.
If Hiram had been eligible to join the A’s he would have been there ahead of these two guys. The revolving door holds open for no one. It can slam shut for anyone.
It is this part of baseball that makes me crazy. Watch the game live or on TV, what goes on behind the dugout would scare most of us.
I love the ‘arm chair managers’ on scout.com. Okay, I read that crap. I get mad and want to respond but don’t. With the situation in the A’s camp, most of the posters on that site have all the answers. Too bad they don’t have Billy’s direct line. I am sure he’d love to hear what he should be doing.
What hacks me the most are statements about Hiram’s short comings, that he has never proven himself when he had the chance. The problem with that statement is that Hiram has never really had the chance to prove himself. No one can really ‘prove themselves’ if they are in a game every few days. The pressure is strong from that kind of opportunity. The ball player knows he has just this one chance to prove himself. Nerves get the best of them. Besides, each day Hiram plays with Sacramento he proves himself.
So Hiram finds himself in a position where perhaps Billy Beane does feel bad about what happend in February. Maybe he feels so bad that despite the recent additions to the club, he does plan to call Hiram up to the big club and give Hiram that chance that has so far eluded him over that last few years.
Maybe Hiram feels the same way. But while I wait impatiently, Hiram just keeps playing hard. You just have to listen to the crowd at Raley Field to know that it should be “Bocachica Time” Oakland.