I agree that it wasn't a great decision by Cora. I just find it interesting that there is much more hand wringing about Cora than about how poorly Wright pitched. Sometimes, Wright just turns into a pumpkin and I'm not convinced that's a guy I want in my rotation.
I might check out a minute or two of the home run derby, but more often than not I just don't watch any of the All Star festivities.
After the stupid Bud Selig tie game nonsense, I really soured on the whole spectacle.
If Hanley continued his horrible May into June, his fWAR would be way worse. His current season total is boosted due to his April.
Only two players had a worse May: Lewis Brinson and Chris Davis. You could make a case that both of these guys aren't MLB value right now.
Tough call. I'd have to go with:
Teeball > Girls Softball > Mens Rec League Softball > MLB > Mtv Rock N' Jock Softball Challenge > High School Baseball
When I said "I've been watching for decades" it was to make fun of other posters for basically saying that their decades of fandom have given them the experience to be qualified to be a MLB manager (this is a recent reference). Same can be said for my remarks about my extensive coaching (maybe a not so recent reference). There have been a few posters in the past who have lauded their "scouting experience" when all it really was was watching high school baseball. To me, that's not "experience".
I'm not so sure it is a fluke. I don't think it has anything to do with hitters feeling like they don't need to score 10 runs, it's just a function of Sale being more likely to be opposed by top of the rotation starters than ERod.