Buck Showalter: "We're going to try to out-relationship you"

[PressBoxOnline]

Orioles manager Buck Showalter on the importance of the team's minicamp: "We're going to try to out-relationship you. It's a lot more fun, quite frankly, instead of trying to outbid on people."

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/01/11/orioles-find-minicamp-a-necessity

[Can_of_corn]

Wouldn't the GM returning phone calls be part of that process?

[weams]

[weams]

2 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Wouldn't the GM returning phone calls be part of that process?

I've never found getting a response somehow to be difficult. 

[Frobby]

15 hours ago, weams said:

I've never found getting a response somehow to be difficult. 

You're not a coach or a player agent.  

[weams]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

You're not a coach or a player agent.  

True that!

[pastorfan]

WTH does this even mean? I guess we are going to "love" our way to a championship. I guess it definitely means someone like Bautista is not coming here...

[Larry18]

3 minutes ago, pastorfan said:

WTH does this even mean? I guess we are going to "love" our way to a championship. I guess it definitely means someone like Bautista is not coming here...

Buck doesn't like modern analytics, he's a Make Love not War type of guy. 

[Redskins Rick]

20 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

Wouldn't the GM returning phone calls be part of that process?

Based on hearsay evidence, not admissible in a court of law. LMFAO.

[OFFNY]

21 hours ago, PressBoxOnline said:

Orioles manager Buck Showalter on the importance of the team's minicamp: "We're going to try to out-relationship you." "It's a lot more fun, quite frankly, instead of trying to outbid on people."

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/01/11/orioles-find-minicamp-a-necessity

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Showalter is going to see to it that every Oriole fan has a girlfriend or a boyfriend and/or a wife or a husband.

Cool. 

 

 

[FlipTheBird]

46 minutes ago, pastorfan said:

WTH does this even mean? I guess we are going to "love" our way to a championship. I guess it definitely means someone like Bautista is not coming here...

It's an awkward quote, and just kind of dropped into the middle of the story, so it's hard to say precisely what question prompted Buck to say it.

I'd reckon that what he was trying to convey was that the Orioles are big on chemistry, and that their greater team chemistry is what helps make up for the payroll gap between them and teams like the Yanks and Sox. Which I don't necessarily disagree with. They're very particular about the types of personalities they've carried on the roster since Buck took over.

[OFFNY]

21 hours ago, PressBoxOnline said:

Orioles manager Buck Showalter on the importance of the team's minicamp: "We're going to try to out-relationship you." "It's a lot more fun, quite frankly, instead of trying to outbid on people."

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/01/11/orioles-find-minicamp-a-necessity

 

32 minutes ago, OFFNY said:

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Showalter is going to see to it that every Oriole fan has a girlfriend or a boyfriend and/or a wife or a husband.

Cool. 

 

 

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[Frobby]

45 minutes ago, OFFNY said:

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Showalter is going to see to it that every Oriole fan has a girlfriend or a boyfriend and/or a wife or a husband.

Cool. 

 

 

I believe on the 1970 World Series championship team, every player but one (Bobby Grich) was married.    So maybe there's something to it!

[Redskins Rick]

21 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I believe on the 1970 World Series championship team, every player but one (Bobby Grich) was married.    So maybe there's something to it!

Palmer might have been in between wives #1 and #2 at this time.

[Dark Helmet]

The chemistry is good because the team has been winning while Bucks been here. Winning builds good chemistry. Let's see how good the chemistry is if and win they start losing. And as the good chemistry guys start leaving..Markakis...Wieters...etc.