[La Russa resigns with Stl for 14th concussive consecutive season]
“One of the things we pride ourselves on is continuity,” [John] Mozeliak said. “When you look at how long our staff as been together, even though we’ve had a front office change, it’s something to be proud of. It’s a strength of this organization that it’s been able to have a coaching staff in place for over 10 years.” — from today’s St. Louis-Post Dispatch.
Indeed, consistency is a Tony La Russa hallmark. 83 games won him a World Series and 86 games got him a 4th place finish in 2008. If St. Louis fans want another mid-80s game win season, they’ve resigned the right team. The Cardinal organization has decided to bring back Tony La Russa for a 14th season, along with his entire coaching staff. That means more player head injuries ignored, and frustrated, emotionally driven feuds between La Russa and guys he should never have let go, like Rog’s fave, Jim Edmonds.
In other Card news, scout Chuck Fick will move up to major league scouting duties for the team. Normally, scouting promotions are not covered on CSTB. Then again, most scouts don’t have names as entertaining as Chuck Fick’s. Watch this space for any and all Chuck Fick news, Chuck Fick scouting discoveries, Chuck Fick incidents involving mistakenly transposed vowels, Fick’s son and Cardinal pitching prospect, Chuckie Fick, or any time a Cardinal story needs a gratuitous funny name thrown in. In 2009, make CSTB your one-stop for Chuck Fick news. Or, as I like to call them, your Chuck Fix. Joe Strauss of the Stl Post-Dispatch (sounds like they still get their news by pony express down there) reports the whole thing here, with plenty of mentions of Chuck Fick.
Does anyone actually like Tony La Russa outside of the print media? I mean anyone at all?
If so, I’d like to know what it is to love a robot.
We met Chuck Fick at the Fall Classic in Peoria. Wow, what a coach. With a staff of people like Chuck the Cardinals have to be in great shape for the next year. Chuck is very outgoing and makes everyone in the stands a friend. He uses his communications skills and understands the needs for young baseball players to motivate, instill confidence and teach baseball skills to his players.
If there is a real,”Mr. Baseball” I think it would have to be Chuck Fick.I meet Him at an Area Codes try out in Santa Clara, Calif. . We talked of Family values, our kids, Baseball and I think we talked briefly of apple pie.He made me feel like a old friend. He teased all the College Coaches and Scouts alike.My Son was picked to play in the Area Codes in San Diego. There Chuck would come by and talk each day for a short while before He got down to Baseball duties.Chuck gave me His Card , and told Me if I ever need some advice to call Him in regards to Baseball.I never figured He really meant it.Busy Man and all.This Year My Son had some things going on.I wasn’t sure how to handle the situation.,” Baseball stuff”. I decided to call Chuck for advice.He talked with My Son & somehow Motivated Him.After the talk My Son turned His Game around 100% over night.So to all of You, Chuck is Chuck. To Me ,He’s Mr Baseball. Thanks