Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site fisher.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!phri!timeinc!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!david
From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Personal vs. Team Glory (Gary Carter)
Message-ID: <693@fisher.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 10:15:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: fisher.693
Posted: Sat Jun 29 10:15:37 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 00:11:54 EDT
References: <367@petfe.UUCP>
Organization: Princeton University Department of Statistics
Lines: 21

>I have an odd opinion of Carter.  I think it's hard to dispute his playing
>abilities.  He is undisputably one of the best catchers in baseball.  (Anyone
>really want to argue that?)  But (and I am an avid Mets fan!), I don't like
>him. This grandstanding fits perfectly the image of Carter I have been piecing
>together all season.  He talks (too) sincerely about the team's interests, and
>all, but I somehow don't believe him.  He smiles too  much.  Nobody is that
>happy (not even a guy getting $1 million for playing a kid's game that he's
>great at)!  Before this incident I didn't feel really justified in that 
>distrust, it was just a gut feeling.  But now, I can justify it. 

Sounds like all the raps that Garvey took unfairly.  Perhaps if you
realized that Carter gets 1.8 million a year, instead of a relatively
piddling 1 million a year, you would THEN grant that he might be that
happy with his career.  If we're going to have to choose between our
players having the attitude of a Carter or Garvey on the one hand, and
a Kingman (especially when required to field) or a Wiggins (baseball
makes my life miserable), I know which we are going to choose.  So
until a PATTERN emerges, I will presume the incident to which you
referred as a rare mistake in judgment.

						David Rubin