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Shinburger

Corrected to reflect the truth.

I am not concerned about our offense. Unfortunately, offense throughout a season never stays at consistently high level. There will be slumps. The dog days of August are famous for slumps. Guys start to wear down. The long season and the heat start to take a toll. However, our offense is the biggest run producing offense by a wide margin up to this point of the season, and I expect that they will remain in the top spot although the gap with the second place team might close. Our pitching has been worse than league average. That is what continues to concern me. Making the playoff with a 4.26 ERA today is very difficult. Our hitting can't do better than being the best. There is plenty of room for improvement by our pitching. If we don't make the post season, it will be because our pitching has been atrocious over the course of a full season. They have managed to lose several games where the offense put up 8, 9 or 10 runs.

Rumors are that it is the end for him with the Yankees. Maybe they are buying out his last season.

We don't want him to suffer a setback like Bradley did by getting thrown into the full time role. There is no reason to throw him into the fire. He will learn an advance his development almost as quickly playing part time. Just being around guys like Ortiz and Pedroia will teach him how to prepare and approach the game. If he keeps his ears and eyes open, e will learn more from this part time experience thanhe would get from regular reps at AA or AAA.

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He has only had problems on rainy or humid nights. LA weather is perfect for him.

The initial report was a shin contusion.

They could modify the trade or rescind it.

What off the field stuff are you referring to that is an important role(s) of a manager that adds value or affects team performance?

It isn't easily quantifiable, and over a course of the season, it probably doesn't amount to much, but they either have an effect on the team performance or record and should be subject to criticism and accountability or they are just irrelevant. I think they have an effect on a team. I also don't think much of the overall quality of managers, but I also don't think much of the overall quality of the umpires either. But then again, they can be replaced by machines. LOL!

I am confused. Is a manager very important or not important at all? They can't be indispensable if their game management means nothing and has little effect on games or the season.

Maybe I broke the needle on his sarcasm meter.

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Did it break the needle on your ******** Meter?

Seriously, they sleep through about 40% of the game.

Blame comes with the territory. If they truly have no effect on the outcome of the games and the batting order is similarly meaningless, then the manager is largely irrelevant and a trained monkey could do their jobs. If they are irrelevant to the outcome of a season, no manager should make more than the league minimum. And certainly we never should have had to make a trade to acquire our manager. I think managers would prefer to take the big 7 figure salaries and the blame that comes with those salaries.

He stinks and we overpaid for him.

Hanigan looks shot.

Which plays into my argument that none of these bozos should be making millions. If they have so little impact, they should make the league minimum, and teams should discard them like tissue paper. But yet people argue over whether the manager should be fired. It makes no difference who is in the dugout with the lineup card. Hand it to a trained monkey. At last they would be cute and entertaining. The combined brain power of the 30 MLB managers can generate about as much power as 2 hamsters running on wheels.

If Farrell and even my all-time favorite Red Sox manager, Tito had to think 50 -200 times a game, each game would be a week long. LOL!!

Genius? Being right doesn't make one a genius. You are often right.

Pure nonsense flows from your fingertips. I was comparing and contrasting a manger's late inning management when a team top starter is throwing a shutout. The pitcher is interchangeable with about 50 or more starting pitchers under the circumstances.

They gutted out that victory. Every win is a beautiful thing.

This offense is dead.