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staff, then A&M and Texas,” he
said. “The rest are pfetty aver
age.”
Sullivan has good reason to
fear Texas A&M’s pitching
staff.
Starters Tom Arrington (8-
1), Kelly Keahey (6-1) and Sher
man Corbett (4-2) have 150
strikeouts between them. Kea
hey boasts an overall ERA of
O-OS, while Arrington’s is 1.98.
Corbett and Arrington have
each given up only nine walks in
SWC play.
Sullivan shows no less con
cern for the Aggie hitters.
Texas A&M is batting .323 as a
team in the SWC.
Not only will the Bears have
to shut down the red-hot Swain,
but they must also contend with
Tony Metoyer, Buddy Haney,
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Metoyer is batting .426 in
conference play and leads the
team in doubles with six.
Haney is hitting .367 in the
SWC and leads the Ags in RBIs
with 15. Metoyer and Haney
have both hit three homeruns
to lead the team.
Cartwright started his first
conference series at second base
against Tech a week ago. Cartw
right hit two clutch triples
against the Red Raiders and
leads the Aggies in that cat
egory.
As the designated hitter,
James has 12 RBIs for the Ags
and a .314 batting average in
conference play.
The three-game series with
Baylor begins with a single
game at 2 p.m. today. Saturday,
the Aggies and the Bears will
complete the series with a dou
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m with
you, and think the whole world
will be run on computers some
day.
Some day very soon, loo.
Look, even the Mets are us
ing one now, right there in
manager Dave Johnson’s office,
and that has to tell you some
thing.
The Mets go out and get
themselves a computer and
while they’re doing that, the
Oakland A’s decide to discard
the one they were using, or at
least stick it up on the shelf for
awhile.
Here’s the intriguing points
to ponder about that:
Using the computer, the A’s
won nine of their first 13 games
last year and were in first place
in the American League West at
that point.
Operating without the com
puter this year, the A’s won
nine of their first 13 games
again and — guess what? —
they’re leading their division
once more.
What made them junk their
computer?
“It wasn’t cost-effective,” says .
manager Steve Boros. “That’s a
term I picked up from the busi
ness section of the New York
Times. I’m not sure what it
means but it sounds impressive.
“So instead of a computer,
I’ve got a grade school tablet for
kids and a box of crayolas now.
What I’ve really got are some
index cards and some crayons.
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better or for worse.”
The A’s are lucky to have a
manager like Boros. He's bright
without being overbearing,
through without being picky.
He makes his job his primary
working concern without turn
ing it into some sort of holy cru
sade and finds ample time for
the media without ever neglect
ing his players. What else can
you ask from any manager?
You can tell how the A’s feel
about Boros by the way they
ipe
ific,
who
Schueler was quite
especially with Rearm
would be giving the signs.
Warren was to waste a fast
ball inside and then try to get
Fisk out with a breaking ball.
Warren’s first pitch was a fast
ball inside, according to instruc
tions, but Kearney then called
for another fast ball inside and
Fisk stroked it into the second
deck to narrow- Oakland’s mar
gin to 7-6. Greg Luzinski tied
the score with a two-out homer
in the ninth and the White Sox
Using the computer, the A’s won nine of their
first 13 games last year and were in first place in
the American League West at that point.Ope
rating without the computer this year, the A’s
won nine of their first 13 games again and —
guess what? — they’re leading their division
once more.
play for him. They’re alert, yet
loose and relaxed, reflecting the
manner in which he handles
them. If he has something to
say to one of his players,
though, he doesn’t keep it a se
cret.
Example:
The A’s were playing the
White Sox in Chicago last Sep
tember and were ahead 7-2
when the Oakland starter began
to tire and Boros brought in
right-hander Mike Warren
from the bullpen.
An error, a walk and a bloop
hit cut Oakland’s lead to 7-3
and Carlton Fisk was the next
hitter. Boros and Ron Schueler,
the A’s pitching coach, knew
how they wanted to pitch Fisk
and Schueler conveyed that in
formation to Warren and Bob
Kearney, catching for Oakland
at the time.
both
won the game in the 10th
Boros and Schueler
were livid.
“What in hell is going on?”
the two of them demanded of
Kearney.
Kearney, with Seattle now,
actually had good intentions.
He felt the first pitch to Fisk
wasn’t inside enough to set him
up properly so he believed it
would be a good idea to try an
other fastball inside instead of
the curve Boros and Schueler
had instructed him to call for.
“I thought we should go back
one more time,” was the way
Kearney reasoned.
Boros declined to reveal what
he had to say to Kearney on the
grounds his answer couldn’t
possibly he printed in any fam
ily newspaper. The A’s man
ager did disclose what he and
Schueler had to say to all the
C iakland players at a A
door meeting which
called for immediatelyaftff
game.
"We told ’em we’d mail
dec isions,” Boros said,
turned out we were wrens.'
get the heat, not them.”
"As it happens,” Bow
eluded grimly but non
plaiuingly, “we’d get all dx
anyway.” ’
How many times ha«
heard that nothing is sure,i
ever assume anything'
Steve Boros has heard it
dreds of limes. He’saguyi
quick upstairs, picks upi
things in a hurry anyway s
knew enough not to tale
thing for granted evenW
he became aftnajor league!
ager for the first time to!
w it h the Oakland A’s.
In case he mighthavefoi
ten, though, a couple of
buddies in the managerial
ternity, Whitey Herzog,"In
com hed for at Kansas City,
Dick Williams, for whotnh
worked the same job ail
tteal, reminded him never t
some anything about I
ers or he’d find himselfit
trouble.
What Herzog and Wi
told Boros was never
sight of the fact thatballf
even those in the bigleay
are fallible, prone to mistalti
kev situations and anythifj
perf ect in their execution.
“Whitey and Dick
never to assume a major let]
player will know wi
when the game is on tlieli
when he should steal or(
put, when he should
second base or homep
things like that," Borost
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out in front of him.
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a chance.”
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