When you read the quotes Beauchamp gave after last night’s game, a 4-2 loss to Shreveport, what do you think? Is it — This guy is nuts and he needs to take a step back and calm down. Or do you say — I love his honesty and why should the guy hold back if that’s what he really thinks. If you didn’t see Beauchamp’s comments, here they are:
That’s this team in a nutshell right there. This team, they don’t know if they want to win or if they want to be losers. They have no idea what they want to do. You score 16 runs off their No. 1 starter, then let a guy with a 7-something ERA come in and shut you down. That’s lack of mental focus.”
“This team’s got to figure out what it wants to be. If they don’t want to win a championship, I’ll currycomb the countryside for guys that can get up to play every day. I’m getting sick of looking at it. I told them not even to come to the stadium until 5 o’clock (today). I don’t even want to see them.
I took out the many F-bombs Kash dropped during the interview.
I don’t think Kash is just shooting from the hip. I think he’s smarter than that. I waited 10 minutes before going to the clubhouse and interviewed two players before I went back to his office. So he had plenty of time to think about what he wanted to say, and I think his comments were calculated.
So then the only question remains, is calling out your team like that effective? Only he knows that, I guess. On one level, he definitely wants to motivate these guys so they’ll play better and be able to stay on the team. On another, he’s putting them on notice that pretty much no roster spot is safe. We’ll see if it works.