Rich Gedman

[Reds]

Is there anyone in the game who is more UN-clutch than this terd?  I love using Boston, but damned if everytime I get a runner on third, or on at all Gedman hits into a DP or flies out to the infield...

[fknmclane]

Least clutch hitter in the game who should be clutch?  I don't think Gedman is THAT bad, but he does go through streaks.  I'd have to say that for me, the most consistently bad clutch player who should hit a bomb when you need it most is Downing or Ripken or Schmidt.

[NotURMasButArmas]

I'm going to have to go with "Fat" Matt Nokes.

Armas

[fknmclane]

Fat Hrbek.

[vgp100]

Lou Whitaker.

[doveRBI]

Not sure what the question being asked is, but if the answer is Sweet Lou Whit, then the question must be, "who is the most prime time player in the Ribby universe."

[fknmclane]

The question was who is the most unclutch player in all of RBI.

[doveRBI]

In that case, Lou Whitaker would be the opposite of the answer to your question.  

[vgp100]

Lou Whitaker can swallow my ass. He sucks.

[doveRBI]

Not this again.  I know... long ago we established that some people think Sweet Lou sucks.  We also established that those people are wrong/criminally insane.

[RedRamage]

Please don't rag on Lou...  Tiger's fans need all the help they can get to stay positive and cutting down on one of our beloved from the glory days is just too painful.

[doveRBI]

RedRamAss:  Lou is the best player in the freaking game.  If I had the dork skillz necessary to edit roms, I would make an entire team of Lou Whitaker batters and Jesse Orosco pitchers.  Ps... if anyone possessing those skills has tons of free time go ahead and great this team and replace houston with them.  No one will miss that HO.

[fknmclane]

Sweet Lou is hot and cold.  Really, he is.  I'm not afraid to say it.

I still can't believe Trammell didn't pick him up as bench coach or some shit.  The guys played together for something like 15 years.  What's Trammell's deal?  RedRamage, a little help here.

[jaylums]

I know he's off Houston, but Glen Davis never does a damn thing.  Jack Clark can bite my ass as well.

[GDavis]

I never do a damn thing?  You must've forgot about the time I did your mom with my big purple bat!

[jaylums]

Easy, Geena.  Easy like your mother and your mother's mother.

[fknmclane]

Big purple bat.  I like that.  Did you hit the sweet spot?

[RedRamage]

I still can't believe Trammell didn't pick him up as bench coach or some shit.  The guys played together for something like 15 years.  What's Trammell's deal?  RedRamage, a little help here.

Lou was never a "chummy chummy" sort of guy.  He's a Jehovah's Witness, and that may have something to do with his attitude... he wasn't interested in the limelight very much.  In a lot of ways he reminds me of Barry Sanders: He was a good (or in Barry's case: Great) athlete who did his job, but wasn't interested in being a star.  He shunned the limelight and reports... he didn't want a life in Baseball afterward.  I believe that Trammell talked with Lou but never formally asked him if he wanted to join the staff, likely because he would've known the answer.

On the field Tram and Lou were the dynamic duo... they were linked together forever by the long time they spent as the double play team, but off the field Trammell really spent more time, and had more in common with Gibson and Parrish... not suprisingly they are both part of his staff today.

Whitaker did make an appearence for a day at Spring Training this past year, but he really didn't do much more than show up for a little bit.

On a semi-related note, another RBIer and former '84 great Jack Morris was interested in joining the staff.  Trammell selected Bob Cluck, someone he'd worked with earlier, as his pitching coach, and frankly, given the material to work with, Cluck has done a fantastic job.  Morris is going color commentary for UPN Detroit, a "super station" that  broadcasts about 50 of the Tiger games.  He also helps out with the Tigers where he can and was used during Spring Training.  Morris was also asked to help try to mentor Weaver a little bit back in 2002 when Weaver was still with the Tigers.

[fknmclane]

Never really close, huh?  Kinda strange but not that surprising if Lou is really like that.  Those Witnesses are pretty nuts.

[RedRamage]

Well, if you think about it, there are people I work very closely with at my Job.  Some of them I know better than others...some are people who have similar interests that I do a we might hang out after work or do something together, but there are a lot more who do not have much in common with me.  We're plenty friendly with each other, but outside of work we just don't share anything in common.  We won't do anything together away from work.

I think it was the same way with Tram and Lou.  Good enough friends as work and all, but what Tram wanted to do away from the job Lou didn't.  And what Lou wanted to do when not on the field didn't interest Tram.