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Top of the 10th inning, 7-7 tie, Royals batting with runners on 1st and 2nd two outs. Tony Pena Jr. due up, you have Mike Jacobs and Mark Teahen on your bench, and you have two players currently in the game who have played SS before.
Trey Hillman let's Tony Pena Jr. hit.
That's unacceptably stupid.
Are you 100% absolutely, unequivocally sure they were available for tonight's game? In other words were they given the day off and he wasn't going to use them no matter what? That is the only explanation that would let him off the hook in this case. Not everyone who's not in the lineup is available. He does have to plan for all 162, while we all watch and agonize over every little move. One of his jobs is to make sure everybody stays fresh even if the fans want to kill him for not making such an obvious substitution. Or maybe they both had nagging, day to day type injuries that he didn't want to make worse. I know it's Trey (I love Kyle Farnsworth) Hillman but there might be a reason that we as fans are not privy to.Quote:
Originally Posted by KowboyKoop
:pQuote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
Teahen entered the game the next inning. I am 100% sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
EDIT: And Jacobs was just on the bench b/c a LHP started....I'm pretty sure he's not injured either.
Anger justified...Let 'im have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by KowboyKoop
The problem with the whole day-off, stay fresh thing, is that managers have to plan that without losing games in the process. If Hillman's plan is to keep Teahen fresh for game 154, but in the process loses game 21 (or whichever it was today), it doesn't help the team. Each game now counts the same as a game in September. Besides, if you're just giving the guy a day-off to give him some rest, a pinch-hit in the 10th is not going to cause undue physical stress.Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
I try to give managers and GM's the benefit of the doubt, b/c as you said, they have a lot more info than we do....that's why I have defended some of DM's moves that others ripped......but in this case and in the cases of Hillman falling in love with Farnsworth...there's simply no possible excuse. Just extremely, extremely stupid...no thought process whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
Troncoso!!!
Kansas City Royals. Kinda good?
Probably a good thing I had a study session to go to or I would have been pretty pissed watching that 7th inning.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index...lb_1&mode=wrap
Blue Crew is rollin' along.
Special props to my hommie, El Chad
Carl Crawford...6 steals against the Sox today.
Yikes
I hate the Mariners. Always getting my hopes up. YOU BETTER NOT BLOW THIS ICHEEZEE
[EDIT : GJ ICHEEZEE, NOW LOPEZ...DONT BLOW IT, WIN THE GAME!]
Ugh, way to get out Lopez :( off to the 14th inning we go.
My stomach is gonna explode from the tenseness.
Stupid Giants.
One of the best Mariners-Oakland series.
Game 1 : Mariners win it on a walk off hit in the 9th
Game 2 : Oakland scores in the top of the 9th in a tie game to win
Game 3 : 15 inning game won by the Mariners with a walk off hit (by Jose Lopez..again!)
wow.
"You still have to score runs. You don't win nothing to nothing games. You still have to score."
-me
That's a great quote, Joe. It really inspired me.
It's true.
As the Rockies saw today. Our pitching actually held them scoreless, but apparently Clint Hurdle doesn't listen to Old Joe there
Tell us about Carlos Quentin's "Foundation with his legs" you were talking aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Joe Morgan
Clint listens to Joe rarely.Quote:
Originally Posted by rockiesfan4ever
Because the Rockies barely ever score more runs then the opponent.
Clint doesnt have a brain
I don't get how it's Clint's fault that the offense can't score runs. When the Mariners only score 2 runs I don't blame Waka, I blame the terrible offense >.>
Unless there's something I'm missing
Most (99.999999999999999%) of Rockies fans HATE Hurdle
Yeah..but how does that make it his fault the offense is hitting very well?Quote:
Originally Posted by rockiesfan4ever
Quick question: what player has the greatest home run to strike out ratio of all time? Min 100 homers
It's not.Quote:
Originally Posted by 200tang
I don't hate Hurdle actually that much.
Dan O'Dowd gets MOST of my hatred.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by OregonDuck1989
Joe Dimaggio had 361 homers to 369 strikeouts, a ratio of about .97. No one has ever had more homers than strikeouts (among players with 100 HRs).Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
Pujols leads among active players with a ratio of .63, far ahead of Vlad Guerrero at .48 (and Sheffield at .44, and Nomar at .43).
These are pretty easy to calculate using 'Sortable Stats' in Mogul and then pasting in Excel to calculate HR/K.
oh awesome! Thank you Clay!Quote:
Originally Posted by Clay Dreslough