Clapp Denied Permission to Play in the Olympics
by Stros Bro
on May 8, 2008 3:38 PM CDT
Stubby Clapp, the name and face of Canada's Olympic baseball team, was denied permission to play at the Beijing Games on Thursday, when the Houston Astros said they will not free him for international duty.A hitting coach for Houston's minor league affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky, Clapp was told by the Astros that he would have to remain with the organisation and could not compete in Beijing.
Wow... seems kind of wrong to me. He's a hitting coach for a Class-A team... why not give him the time off to compete in the Olympics. I don't understand it... but maybe I'm missing something.
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I agree
What’s it gonna hurt to let him go? Makes the organization look bad.
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by Danyah on May 8, 2008 4:39 PM CDT 0 recs
I wonder how much time off he would require.
I tend to agree with ya’ll that it doesn’t look good. But if he would miss most of the minor league season, for example, maybe I could understand it.
by clack on May 8, 2008 7:58 PM CDT 0 recs
Maybe
Drayton’s making his own statement about Tibet . . . . .
Let's talk about something other than Tejada
by rastronomicals on May 9, 2008 7:19 PM CDT 0 recs
n/t
:-)
Let's talk about something other than Tejada
by rastronomicals on
May 9, 2008 7:19 PM CDT
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Astros have already allowed 2 of their minor league...
players to join the Canadian olympic team. One article I saw mentioned that the Astros hired Clapp as a coach with the expectation that his playing days are over.
by clack on
May 10, 2008 9:09 AM CDT
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They why did they
let him play in the qualifiers? I just don’t see how it would be a big deal… it’s a single A team… They are too young and stupid to listen to their coach if he was a good coach. :)
Go 'Stros!
by Stros Bro on
May 10, 2008 6:02 PM CDT
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