“Something from the meeting clicked eventually though!”

How come you’re not crediting the team meeting held a couple of weeks earlier than that one?

Besides, I thought all of the pundits had the (most recent) epiphany as Arod’s Sunday night homer against Papelbon.

My opinion is a team playing below its capabilities started playing up to its potential. There doesn’t have to be a “lightbulb” moment.

Something from the meeting clicked eventually though!

Such an inspiring meeting they lost their next two games.

Isn’t Bowa a coach on the team? Why does it matter if it’s Bowa or Mattingly, if it were Bowa and Mattingly and not Torre then I’d be questioning things.

A fish rots from the head. Torre is the head of the team so it all starts with him. Anyone else on his staff who speaks after him and trying to make it out to be more than what it really is, then I’d like to refer to that as noise. Isn’t it Torre and Co. and not Torre, Mattingly, and Co.?

Bowa was called in to address the team along with Torre in an extreme situation. His personality made sense for that type of desperation. For the day to day responsibility of managing a team, it’s a different story, and I still don’t think the mix of a strident, loose cannon type like Bowa or Girardi and a $200 million team of veterans is very good.

But people sure do like to romanticize the hard-assed firebrand.

I find it interesting that Bowa was called to address the team – and not Don Mattingly.
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Eh, not really.

WRT Bowa vs Mattingly, you have two different personality types. I can’t see Mattingly doing a “Bowa” act.