Comments on: Navy SEALs Roundtable With Dejan Kovacevic, Charlie Wilmoth, and More

By: RTJ02

RTJ02 — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:14:40 +0000

You are way off base thinking Kyle Stark is onto something by putting professional baseball players through mock Navy SEAL training. You mentioned many different teams that have participated, but not one other baseball team in the professional ranks. Why is that you think? After 20 years of being losers this is not the answer, and if it were I would bet that organizations that are actually successful would be participating in this type of activity also. You win baseball games by first being sound with fundamentals. The whole “hoka hey rah rah” attitude is for college. Get over yourself and observe what successful teams do with their players at the minor league level instead of arguing like kids over a timeframe for an injury that may or may not have happened during bogus drills that won’t help them win games in the first place. These guys are pathetic excuses for development staff and need to get out of baseball. Stark is an ex-volleyball player that had zero experience running a farm before he came to the Pirates. Quit defending mediocrity and ridiculousness.

By: jlease717

jlease717 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:09:54 +0000

It was a fascinating discussion, that’s for sure. The usual internet tough guys seemed more meek when actually confronted with the person they were busy impugning. Not too unusual. That’s why names should be the only ‘handles’. As in ACTUAL names. I loved Dale Berra too, but I’m fine posting as myself.

By: Tim Williams

Tim Williams — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:30:00 +0000

It was something like that. I saw it this morning.

It just goes back to the ridiculous argument he put forward about how the system hasn’t been built up. For some reason he’s still holding on to that, as shown last night. It’s stuff like that which makes it look like he has a grudge. When he’s criticizing for something that is widely praised, that shows something.

By: john.alcorn@chp.edu

john.alcorn@chp.edu — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:15:41 +0000

He said something like “why evaluate it yourself when you can let other people talk for you”? No? Maybe I read it wrong.

In context, he was being sarcastic. He said the system stinks, you (and others) said all these experts say it doesn’t, he was then dismissive.

By: Tim Williams

Tim Williams — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:54:53 +0000

I responded to a few of the comments today. I went to bed early last night (well, early for my standards). My last post in the thread was around midnight.

He didn’t say I should try evaluating it myself. He asked why I would evaluate it, rather than just citing other people.

By: john.alcorn@chp.edu

john.alcorn@chp.edu — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:47:00 +0000

Tim, I wish you had stood up for yourself to the bully. When you mentioned the experts agreeing that we have a good system and he said you should try evaluating it yourself you should have buried him.

Its a shame it turned into a love fest for how brave he was doing a chat there. He is correct about many things, but no one seems to call him on his BS to his face. When he is wrong, he instantly becomes dismissive.

You did a great job remaining professional despite his taunts about you being “angry” and others.