European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 24, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary count goes full on Seaver s career for More than half an hour Tom a Caver sounded like a businessman trying in Cut a Deal with himself talking about How he realty had t made a decision vet on whether he had retired from base Ball. Not that there s a decision to be made he said if somebody does t show any  if that happens baseball will have retired one of its treasures As it did Rod Carew last year. But he prepared for that mentally and financially. He s in Sci Angeles Liis weekend doing an appearance Here fur Spalding sporting foods. He also works for i he integrated resources investment firm and for the Converse shoe company. I could go out and gel a television Job Tomor Row he said. But from a business standpoint i that prudent if i Don t play i la miss the pitching but i won t miss working seven Days a week including sin nights out of seven. I won t miss the travel. My plan right now is to Lake a year off before jumping into something  Seaver was sitting at the Kitchen table in his sprawling rustic Home Here sipping a cup of Coffee patting his Black Labrador retriever Puppy and contemplating reality. No team has contacted he 311 game Winner since he spurned a $500,000 offer to return to the Boston red sox. I m 42." he said had a losing record last year and i had a knee  until a torn cartilage in his right knee put him on the red sox injured list for the american league championship series and the world series he had 7 13 record including 2-6 with the Chicago White sox before a roid season Trade. When the red sox let the sixth gome of the world series with the mels get away and with it the series itself he was Silling on the dugout Steps. Two outs two strikes nobody on it showed a Lack of killer instinct he was saying now. When you re within one pitch of winning you have to win. Dave Anderson if you Don to you Don l deserve to  in other Winters the onetime acts franchise conditioned his right Arm by throwing two or three times a week sometimes in his basement where he had rigged up a Backstop. This Winter he has played Squash almost daily. His Only throwing occurred not Long ago in Florida while he was making an instructional video with Mickey Mantle and Gary Carter among others. Now As he spoke of it the business Man suddenly sounded like a Pitcher. I d Only pitched to Mickey once before in the 1968 All Star game in Houston he  him out. Bui even doing that video i was like an old race horse out on the track again. I was trying to make the Ball move. Mickey asked me if i d been throwing at Home. 1 told him no and he said  could use you also threw Carter a couple of change lips the same pitch i struck out Dave Winfield with when i won my 300th  he was up now pulling out a videotape cassette and staring at the recorder on his television set. "1 never know How to do this he said. If i can get it Back and t mess up the soap opera for my daughter i la hear about it. On his television screen in a White sox uniform Seaver was on the Mound at Yankee stadium. I d won my 299th earlier that week in Boston he said. Nancy and the kids came up for that game and now we were driving Home. The kids fell asleep and i knew had three hours and 1s minutes to think about what i m going to do when Winfield comes up in a game situation. I just knew he would and it happened in the eighth inning. I had a 4- Lead but Ken Griffey was on third and Don Mattingly was on first with two out and Winfield  for the first pitch Carlton Fisk. He while sox Catcher flashed two fingers. Curve Ball. My fourth Best pitch a Caver was say ing now As he watched the videotape but a great Call. Win wild flinched he was t looking for that on the first pitch. It broke Over for a strike. There were 54,000 people Uherc wondering what was going to happen but 1 knew what i wanted to happen. 1 had planned it on that drive Down from Boston use infield s aggressiveness against him use deception throw what tic thinks will be a  Ball one. Strike two swinging. Bail two. But the whole idea was to get the count to 3 and 2, to make him protect against the hard stuff inside. There Sec that on Ball three the whole purpose of that fastball was to get it into his head that i m com ing inside. 1 thought it was a strike. I thought i d got Lucky and struck him out. Watching it. I can see it was inside. But it was a perfect pitch for i he  m pounding hard inside. And then i did something he never expected me to do in coming to a Stop before the j-and-2 pitch. Seaver checked haltingly at first base. That run did t mean anything i had no reason to do that he said. And now. Watch Winfield. Sec him step out and lift his Bat. He s wondering Why i did that and he s really anxious now really  on the videotape Seaver threw another Pilch in Side. The change up he said. As it s going to the plate it looks like a Slider then it Dies off. Use his aggressiveness to get him out in front Winfield swung and missed. Strike three. Watching him Analyse that so Ricoul a Caver Al ready misses not pitching Bui Wilh a 3-and-2 Counton his career he s hoping fora phone Call. Islanders Blank devils As suffer snaps slump from press dispatches East Rutherford . Brent Suiter broke out of a personal scoring slump Wilh iwo goals and two assists Ashe new York islanders skated to a 7-0 Victory Over the new Jersey devils Sun Day. The Triumph came some 25 hours after he islanders got their first Victory of month edging the Montreal canadians 6-5 at Nassau coliseum on sat urday. They had been 0-4-2 for the month. Suiter who had Cone 11 games with out a goal said what bothered me More was the team was not doing Well. My not scoring had As much As anything to do with our problems. But this was a big weekend an maybe Well be Able to turn it  goalie Billy Smith posted the 20th shutout of his nil career and he first of the season by stopping 21 new Jersey shots and Mike Bossy got his first goal in six games whal s Good about a shutout is we played so Many games where we let i maybe three goals and we be lost said Smith now we have a game where we played Well again and got Etc it for it. It makes up for the games Hal we be loss 3 i or 2-v the islanders played without Denis pot Yin who suffered a sprained left knee against he canadians and is sidelined indefinitely. The islanders who enjoyed their big Gest Oul Pul since an 8-4 Victory dec. Ii also Over the devils jumped to a 2-0 Lead at 9 34 of the first period when Sut Ler s entering a Templ in front of the Goat struck new Jersey do Senseman Randy a Lischuk i skate and slipped past nil Roundup goaltender Alain Chevrier. In other games sunday Winnipeg Manitoba Laurie Boschman keyed a four Goat first period outburst to Lead Winnipeg Over Edmon ton. The jets winners of five straight at Home Are second in the Smyllie Divi Sion nine Points behind the oilers. The jets swamped the oilers in the opening 10 minutes out shooting Edmonton 7-1 and building a 3-0 Lead. Sabres a whalers 3 Buffalo . Mike Foligno scored one Goat and assisted on two others to Lead Buffalo Over Hartford extending the sabres winning Streak to five games the Victory Buffalo s eighth in nine outings moved the sabres within four Points of Quebec for the fourth and final playoff berth in the Adams division race. Capitals 5, flames 1 Calgary Alberta Washington s Alan Haworth scored twice in the first period and  Pete Peters made 31 saves As the capitals ended Cal Gary s six game winning Streak. Also scoring for the capitals who had lost four of their last six games were Mike Gartner Mike Ridley and Kelly Miller. Rcd Long ,blackhawks2 Chicago Troy Murray scored from 1 5 feet out with less than two min utes remaining in the final period to Force a scoreless overtime As Chicago salvaged a tie with Detroit. Islanders Center Brent sorter 4-Point Effort sunday pins Ulm 4, rangers 2 new York. Pittsburgh getting goals from Craig Simpson Randy Hillier and Dan Quinn in a Span of 3 22 Early in the first period beat new York goaltender Bob fro Csc for the Fisl Lime in 18 tries. Simpson got his 23rd goal of the sea son on a Power play at 4 03 when he deflected a pass from Moe Malha past frogs cd who entered the game Wilh a 17 0 lifetime record against the penguins. Froese played four seasons with Phila Delphia before his Trade earlier this sea son. Howser from Page 21 and hawser will determine those duties later. I m going to a putting on the uni form pan Lime he said. Ill do what Ever they want Metodio part  Dean Vogelaar royals spokesman said hat after the news conference Howser called the players together told them of his decision and introduce Gardner. He told them he was going to hang Kilup and wished them All Luck Vogelaar said he said i know you re going to have some Tough spots but Don l Jet in get you  " Howser led the royals to the worlds cries title in 198s, coming from behind to beat the Toronto Blue jays in the play offs and the is. Louis cardinals in the world series. In both Kansas City ral lied from 0-2 and 1-3 to win in seven games Wilh the series Victory came the Honor of managing inc Al team in the 1986 All Star game. Players and report ers noticed at the time that Howser seemed withdrawn and subdued As he Ted the league to a 3-2 Victory. Only Days Laier hawser was diag nosed As having a malignant brain tumor he underwent surgery twice i Kansas City on july 22 and in los an Geles on dec. S. Scars from the surgery remained visible when he travelled to Florida and he wore a rap As his hair continued to grow tack from radiation treatments. How scr a Miami native joined the royals in 1981 after being fired As Man Ager of the new York Yankees. The Yan Kees won 103 games under his leadership in 1980 but loss three straight to Kansas City in the playoffs. His major league managerial record including one game he Minagi d after Billy Manin was fired by Thi Yankees in1978, is 507-425. A winning percentage