Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 29, 2005
Angry Gwynn

Tony Gwynn has been suspended for criticizing the Mountain West Conference. The former Padres great and current coach of the Aztecs had this to say:

After a three-game series at the Colorado academy on March 24-26 was postponed by snow, the two teams were scheduled to play three straight doubleheaders at San Diego last weekend. Air Force asked the league to waive its makeup policy, and the MWC Joint Council agreed to reduce the series to four games.

The decision angered Gwynn, who told the San Diego Union-Tribune that it was "an absolute joke."

"You want to know why this conference gets no respect in baseball? It's because of stuff like this," Gwynn told the newspaper. "It's hard to get credibility when they do stuff like this. We've got people around the country laughing at what's going on in the Mountain West Conference."

Tony was a true professional when he played the game, and it sounds like he doesn't tolerate people running the game in a haphazard manner. Good for him. Maybe the people who run the conference should also sit down with Tony and figure out how to improve things.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:41 AM | Colleges | TrackBack (0)
Comments

If I'm reading this correctly, Gwynn criticized the conference for accepting a request by the Air Force to reduce from 6 to 4 the number of games over a 3 day period. That seems like a reasonable request to me---6 games in 3 days is a bit much. According to the article, Gwynn got what he wanted---the 6-game schedule was reinstated, though Air Force forfeited 2 of the games for lack of pitchers. Maybe Gwynn was a bit out of line?

Posted by: Jason at April 29, 2005 11:12 AM

My guess is that Gwynn was against packing 6 games into a weekend, but wanted to eventually get all 6 games in vs. dropping 2 games just to avoid scheduling headaches.

Posted by: AJA at April 29, 2005 11:53 AM

Tony Gwynn is the best thing to happen to college baseball in a really long time. Maybe ever.

Posted by: Mike H at April 29, 2005 12:59 PM

I think Tony Gwyn is living in a fantasy world if he thinks anyone gives a rat's behind about the Mountain West conference's baseball scheduling ideas. Sounds like he picked up a couple of easy wins...probably exactly what he wanted.

Posted by: Al at April 29, 2005 10:46 PM
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