Gardenhire's been watching too many cartoons again

There haven't been a lot of great Gardenhire quotes of late unless you want to look at clear cases of Gardenhire confusing a reporter's question of whether or not so-and-so can help the team as whether or not he's friends with the said player, in this case Nick Blackburn. I can imagine a reporter asking Gardenhire, "So what do you think of Nick?"
"We really like him a lot and we liked him a lot last year."
I guess their friendship has been building for a few years.

Anyway, if you can't immediately find something quotable from the jolly old skipper you don't have to dig very far. Apparently, a few weeks ago some reporter was curious who Gardenhire thought had the best rubber arm he had ever seen. A decent question, maybe they had been talking about Livan Hernandez's durability or maybe he was hoping to get the skip to talk about an old friend (Everyday Eddie) who is trying to battle his way back (shouldn't be too tough in the NL central). I can certainly bet that the reporter was looking for the answer to be someone who had played major league baseball or at least had played professional baseball sometime in their lives. What the reported did not plan was for Gardenhire to tap into his fond memories of growing up watching Saturday morning cartoons. Or maybe Gardenhire owns the 7-disc box set of that green rubbered amalgam and his friendly horse Pokey and he still watches them each morning when he wakes up and eats a bowl of Fruity Pebbles. What ever the case, according to Ron Gardenhire, "Gumby" is pitcher with the greatest rubber arm he's ever seen. And if it was up to him I bet his five man rotation would look something like this:
1. Gumby
2. Stretch Armstrong
3. Reed Richards
4. Li'l Stretch dog toy
5. A slinky
[note: the slinky would probably need a pitch count just so it doesn't get extended too far which would then result in it not returning to normal form]