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Douche move by Strickland.

Crappy lineup. Rutledge batting 2nd? What a joke.

For each type of cancer, there are morbidity statistics. One thing is for certain. If you don't have a good Oncologist working on your case, the greater the chance you will die, but not everyone who goes untreated will die from the cancer. People have been known to go into spontaneous remission although it is rare. If you have the best Oncologist in the world, your chances of survival would increase, but even the best Oncologist loses patients (and even some that they are sure they can save). The morbidity statistics are the big sample size and give you the best indication of chances of surviving. No one would Google the survival stats and see a morbidity likelihood of 65% and conclude that the quality of the doctor doesn't matter. The outcome of a game is much less certain than the outcome of a cancer case, but you give yourself the best chance of winning if you have a good manager who consistently makes the high percentage and smart moves. The additional games that the good manager will win for you as opposed to a dumb ass manager is very difficult measure with accuracy.

Some of the best managers were despised by their players.

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Damn!

Is he back with the team?

It looks like the MRI was also clear:

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XRays were negative. He is going for an MRI in Boston.

The play at 1B was 100% Abreu's fault. He could have run over the bag into foul territory or run to the bag, touched it and pulled his foot back while staying in fair territory. He lost control of his body in that slide and ended up in the base path. Pedey had no good place to go.

Pitching changes are in-game moves as are defensive replacements, shifts, and other game strategy such as moving the runners and pinch hitting. It seem that there is a back-tracking by admitting that certain managerial game functions are significant while other decisions are deemed statistically insignificant. The conclusions as to what is insignificant and what is significant strikes me as somewhat random. Whether a manager uses his bullpen correctly and makes wise pitching changes seems just as hard to quantify as any other game decision.

IMO, Pedey is still the spark that makes this team click. His defense is still the best there is. His turn on the DP is unmatched. When he gets hot with the bat, he gets white hot and keys the offense. As for his personality, he can be a dick. I thought he acted like a dick in 2012, but there was the Bobby V is a dick to excuse. This year there was no excuse. But hey, I like these guys because they play well, and he is still very good. Many of them are dicks in their personal lives.

Kimmi, if neither a manager's lineup order or in game decisions contributes significantly to the outcome of games as you argue, what is it about their off field responsibilities is so important to justify their position? You have also given them a pass on teaching smart baserunning and fielding ...no?

I hope Pedey's hand is okay. They have caused him problems throughout his career. Klutzy move by Abreu at 1B on that play.

It is my first Game Thread of the Season and David Price's first start.

I think that they had predetermined that johnson would be up for one start and then sent down. I believe that is what Farrell said after the game. I think after pitching that game that this decision should have been reconsidered, but it was not. It was announced immediately after the game that he was being optioned back. There was no reconsideration of the decision. It was rigid wrongheaded thinking in my opinion.

If you are referring to me, I am just agreeing with you. Some people have trouble taking yes for an answer I guess. You beat this drum about the insignificance of every managerial decision from lineups to in game decisions, but when I suggest that they are not needed, you think that is snarky. If you are right and managers mean so little to the outcome of games, how can you make a compelling case for keeping the field manager position? You mention that they are important in the clubhouse. To that, I would answer that you are thinking too traditionally. There would be other ways to manage a clubhouse and team morale without having a field manager. Maybe the hitters and the pitchers could each have captains with increased clubhouse responsibility or maybe just a non-player clubhouse manager. As for dealing with the Press, each team has a Press Secretary. Let them handle the media.

Happy Memorial Day! Welcome back David Price. Game Time: 2:10 pm EDT [TABLE=class: probable-pitchers, width: 335] [TR] [TH=class: label, colspan: 2, align: left]PROBABLE PITCHERS[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD]http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/baseball/mlb/players/170x170/1232130.png[/TD] [TD]D. Price BOS0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.00 WHIP[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/baseball/mlb/players/170x170/1758979.png[/TD] [TD]D. Holmberg CHW RP0-0, 0.87 ERA, 0.48 WHIP[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Lineup 1. Betts - RF 2. Pedroia - 2B 3. Bogaerts - SS 4. Hanley - DH 5. Young - LF 6. Travis - 1B 7. Vazquez - C 8. Bradley - CF 9. Marrero - 3B

It's a product of lazy and unimaginative thinking that he got sent down. No one else has a complete game on the staff never mind a shutout. He should be getting another shot and Pom should be sent to the Bullpen. There is always room on a staff for a guy that has just thrown a shutout.

You have convinced me. Managers are unneeded baggage and excess payroll. Put the money toward better players or improved scouting. There really seems to be no justification to keep them.

Rutledge is a Rule 5 player. He can't be sent down without offering him back to the team we claimed him from. He will be on our 25 man roster unless he gets DL'd.

So you pitch a complete came shutout with 9 k's, something that no other pitcher on the staff has done and he gets sent down to the minors. It doesn't seem fair. Maybe they should put Pom in the pen since he can't go deep into games. It might be time for Farrell and his coaching staff to put their heads together and get their collective 10-12 brain cells operating at the same time to think this through. ending him down is just pushing a button like a monkey wanting food.

He made a couple of sparking plays in the 9th inning. I thought the first one was definitively going to be a hit. He just gets such a great jump on balls. It seems like he is all over the field.

LOL! Definitely not.