Comments on: “The other team has no chance” – Getting to know Adam Reifer

By: themop10

themop10 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:35:38 +0000

Interesting to see someone refer to himself in the first, second, and third person is the same interview.

By: Daily Farm Report 10/10/08-10/13/08 weekend wrap | Future Redbirds

Daily Farm Report 10/10/08-10/13/08 weekend wrap | Future Redbirds — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:12:47 +0000

[...] case you missed it, over the weekend I posted interviews with Adam Reifer and Sam [...]

By: VolsnCards5

VolsnCards5 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:33:40 +0000

i kinda hope reifer moves quickly…he could be an interesting trade piece….man i wish he was a lefty

By: sluhser

sluhser — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:07:45 +0000

The kid seems old school……I like it.

Hopefully he can rocket through the system so we can have a 7-8-9 of Reifer-Motte-Perez. Would love that kind of firepower in the bullpen.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:58:02 +0000

I dont think it is a long lived hatred for the players just for the other Jerseys. If that guy is wearing something different from me then I hate him type of thing.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:40:25 +0000

Right, nms, but have you ever heard Gibby hold forth on how different things are today? How some of the stuff in today’s game would have resulted in a pitch stuck in somebody’s ear back when he was playing? And how they treated the other team as The Enemy, none of this palling around? I can’t help but think there’s selective memory going on there, and Gibson was considered a redass even by the standards of his time. Still, I have to wonder whether Reifer’s way of doing it is anachronistic and may get him in some trouble as his career progresses.

By: rasrick

rasrick — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:53:18 +0000

Thanks for doing these interviews! Interesting stuff.

By: nms

nms — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:40:50 +0000

methinks that mentality worked out OK for Bob Gibson

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:32:31 +0000

This attitude may not play well in the Show, however. There must be a degree of collegiality among major-league players; you see it in the chit-chat on the field. It’s probably a necessity given the fact that players keep running into each other over the years (which shouldn’t be the case at NYP; players should only stay there a year or so) and are getting traded for each other, becoming teammates through free agency, etc. I’m not convinced that’s compatible with the “hatred” that he describes.

Any chessplayers out there? This kind of psych-up makes it sound as if Reifer is trying to turn into a baseball-playing Viktor Korchnoi. If he played chess, that wouldn’t be a bad thing — Korch was one of the best players in the world for literally 40 years — but chess is not baseball.

By: nms

nms — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:20:38 +0000

“A lot of my thought process is that I tell myself I am the best, and the other team has no chance. I begin to grow a hatred for the other team as well. ”

To steal a line from Robocop, “I LIKE IT!”