Here is the opening to my Tuesday column: This is in praise of Bob Melvin. He is doing better with the A’s than just about anyone expected, and that is the mark of a good manager. The preseason talk about the A’s was blunt and brutal. They would lose 90 [...]
ComcastSportsNet BayArea justed posted Grant's latest opus in which he gives five reasons Bob Melvin is a superior manager to Bob Geren -- there are a million reasons, really. I won't give away Grant's reasons but it's clear the A's play better under Melvin than Geren, it's so obvious you [...]
I bumped into Duane Kuiper before today’s A’s-Giants game. We talked about new A’s manager Bob Melvin, a former Giant. Kuiper said Mike Krukow preferred to pitch to Bob Brenly instead of Melvin. “Brenly was Krukow’s personal catcher,” is how Kuiper put it. “Ask Bobby about that?” Kuiper said. “It [...]
Bob Melvin just got ejected from the A's-Royals game. Why is this significant? It shows he's active and alive. He argued with three umps today. Bob Geren, the former manager, got ejected from exactly one game before he got dumped. So there are obvious differences. FYI: Matsui just hit a [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.