Via FanSided, Ron Guidry visits Syracuse thanks to the Washington Nationals farm team.
“Someday, it’s going to be a Nationals town,” Smorol said, smiling. “For now, it’s a Yankees’ town and we’ll keep bringing guys in that the people want. We recognize that we get a lot of good feedback from the fans when we bring in a guy like Ron Guidry.”
That’s smart to know your fan base. Guidry didn’t disappoint, speaking about baseball in his era very intelligently:
On whether former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner should be in the Hall of Fame (the Hall of Fame’s special veterans committee has so far rejected Steinbrenner three times since his death in 2010):
“It’s not so much that he changed the game, he changed the Yankees and that team made a lot of teams change what they set out to do and how they went about doing it. Because he was the first one to get into the free agency stuff, everybody else said, ‘OK, this could be lucrative, this could be beneficial to the organization.’ Now, it plays a huge role in a lot of teams’ success.”
He also would vote for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens for the Hall of Fame.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2kETxNC
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