Back with the Angels

Jim F***ing Fregosi, who never should have put Mitch F***ing Williams in Game F***ing 6 of the F***ing 1993 World Series, has died following several strokes at the age of 71. The well regarded baseball genius had apparently forgotten that the clearly spent Williams had turned a 4-run 8^th inning lead in Game 4 into a 1-run deficit in a span of 6 batters. To his credit, Fregosi had guided a veteran bunch of oddballs into the World Series in one of the greatest, most entertaining, most improbable seasons in Phillies history. But still. What the f***? Not that I’m still bitter. He also was a 6-time All Star with the California Angels, who were able to dump him at the end of his career on the New York Mets, who were still looking for their first third baseman who didn’t look like an octopus folding a map in a hurricane, and were willing to give up an erratic right-hander who had gone a pedestrian 29-24 over parts of 4 seasons named Nolan Ryan.