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Old 10-25-2009, 06:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4593412

When I saw the headline I thought it was ESPN's attempt at misleading people into clicking the link. I was fully expecting that to be a different McGwire. It should be interesting to see how he handles his past.
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Old 10-25-2009, 06:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

I can already hear his first words to his hitters:

"Strikeouts is bad?"
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Old 10-25-2009, 07:31 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

That's a TERRIBLE choice for hitting coach.

I would just have Albert be a player-coach.
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Old 10-25-2009, 07:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

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It should be interesting to see how he handles his past.
I'll take a wild guess. He won't want to talk about the past.
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:21 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

Maybe he'll give out andro like it's candy.

Seriously, this has all the makings of a disaster.
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Old 10-25-2009, 10:05 PM   #6 (permalink)
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honestly i think he will provide some good tips to the card hitters remeber with no roids he did hit 49 homers in his rookie year. and another great thing is that i have been wanting his autogrpah for ages so maybe he'll sign now a days
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Old 10-25-2009, 10:25 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

Good for Big Mac. He made a mistake that many players made in the last 20 years, but he isn't a bad guy and hopefully this will help him repair his reputation.
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Old 10-26-2009, 01:51 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Mark McGwire to be Cards Hitting Coach

Confused about this one mostly because of his current past.

But, he's not a horrible pick. Probably difficult to really even measure the affect a hitting coach has on a team anyway.
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Old 10-26-2009, 01:55 AM   #9 (permalink)
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But, he's not a horrible pick. Probably difficult to really even measure the affect a hitting coach has on a team anyway.
How many power hitters made good to great hitting coaches though? The only one I can think off the top of my head would be Don Baylor and he was actually a guy that hit for some average unlike McGwire.

I think a good hitting coach is a guy who can break down a swing and teach the mechanics of how to get your swing down right. I haven't seen anything from McGwire that leads me to believe that he was a student of the art of hitting. I'd be pleasantly surprised if he does well though.
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Old 10-26-2009, 03:35 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Considering the way he killed Holliday's swing at the beginning of this last season this could be interesting.
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