[ESPN2] doesn't have signature identity programming. After live events, it's void of 'SportsCenter,' 'Baseball Tonight,' 'Pardon the Interruption.' Shows that define a brand, ESPN2] currently lacks. |
[Francisco has] had a lot of injuries, but he can play all three [outfield] positions, and he plays hard. |
[In 2005] we couldn't afford to take Vic out. We've got to find ways to take Vic out this year. |
[Sizemore (he's making $318,000 this year) and Lee ($345,000) come cheap, too. Those numbers are as important to Shapiro as batting averages and ERAs. The Colon trade -- he is making $10 million this season -- was Shapiro's way of announcing the Indian's new business model: Expensive free agents were out, hunting for prospects and bargains was in. It's a little easier to sell that small-market approach when trades work out as well as that one did.] The Colon trade was the start of everything, ... It started the change. |
[Two years ago Mark Shapiro , ESPN's executive vice president of programming and production, told Sports Illustrated that Mike Tyson was at the top of his wish list for an athlete reality show subject. That was then, and this is now: They don't make reality shows about missionaries.] It's unfortunate that our viewers would find a reality series on an explosive figure like Mike Tyson uncompelling, ... [But] a life of caring for underprivileged people, as [Tyson] says he's going to do, just isn't as riveting as the ticketing-time-bomb life. |
A big part of it is we've stayed healthy, ... I'd like to think some of it is luck and some of it is design. We're so risk-averse, we have to look at other things other clubs don't have to look at. |
A general manager is never happy, ... But I do feel that, from a big-picture view, we are on course. |
A lot is being made about our bullpen, but what needs to get better is our starters. Our starters have to pitch more innings. |
Andrew Brown is competing for a bullpen spot and displayed very good stuff. He's a guy who will contribute in Cleveland at some point this season. |
Andrew threw the ball very well and I would think that he and Fausto will contribute to the major league team at some point this season. |
Any time you lose pitchers that have been successful, you are concerned about their replacements. |
As a GM, you always want to improve your team, so you are disappointed at any juncture in time when you are unable to get something done, |
At no point did we look to move Coco. We had a clear sense of his value. |
At no point this winter did we shop Coco. But once word leaked out (about the potential trade with Boston), we got over a dozen calls from other teams about Coco. We got offered some very attractive prospects for Coco, and some of the deals were tempting to make. But this was the only one we wanted. |
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