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One thing I have noticed is that when this team fails it is usually an epic failure from top to bottom. That is actually what really bothers me about Farrell. Your team is not going to play perfectly every night...its 9 guys out there and the rest on the pine and sometimes they are just not going to perform perfectly....it is in those games that the Manager's decisions become the dif....all too often in my view.....Farrell is just lost in those situations....IMO, he is a very poor in game Manager relying as I have said before on some plan he makes before the first pitch is thrown and that he will not deviate from regardless of circumstances. How many games did the Bailey mess earlier this year cost us just as an example.
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I hate to bring this up but if Pedey gets the ball to Drew in the right place, that is a DP and we likely leave the inning with the lead still.
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At this point I am more concerned about what they are going to do with Taz...he ain't gettin' there folks.
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Just back to the shift for a second...you could not get me to shift with runners on if you were going to line me up in front of firing squad....there is dumb and there is just plain idiotic, frivolous and foolhardy.
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Yup....you are a blind idiot Farrell.
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I honestly don't think Taz is going to make it all the way to October this way. Gotta' give him credit though....he is tough.
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The mistake is not pitching to the shift or positioning to how the pitcher is going to throw! Stupid as s***!
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This is actually too f***ing funny but probably true...Farrell is not quite thinking of Frankie yet....the game is not tied yet!
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That was on Pedey...did not get the ball to Drew in a place where he could do anything with it...sloppy exchange
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Seeing Iche at 3rd makes me think of Ells and this generation of ballplayers. I just don't know if guys like Iche and Pedey and this whole last bunch of mature to aging ballplayers is the last of the guys we are ever going to see that pay attention to the details...that learned the game all the way down to their shoelaces and play it that way. Ells is a wonderful player.... a star player but in truth he is a sloppy ballplayer....depending for the most part on ungodly talent that just oozes out of his pores. But he can't throw, not because of injury but because nobody ever taught him how and he never bothered to learn and he does silly things like the way he went into second base and got himself injured and that dumb crow hop he uses to get back to the base. In truth it is for him the difference between being a star and a superstar. That is really all it would have taken but it will never happen at this point....too late.
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I posted this a few games ago but what I think I notice (can't be sure) is that since Jake got here there has been something of a competitive spirit between the starters...not wanting to get outdone one to the next. When Jake first got here while it was an indirect comment, I said that the staff lacked leadership and in passing suggested that Peavy was too new to assume that role......I WAS WRONG....DEAD WRONG. They did lack leadership but there is no question in my mind that the staff has hitched its wagon to Peavy's harness.
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Actually when Ells does get picked it is the same way every single time. He does not go back to the bag the same way every time. When he feels like he does not have to rush back, he uses that stupid crow hop. Then the first and only time he is forced to crossover step...WHAT A SHOCK...he looses his balance and his footing and can't make it back. If you were to go back and watch film of the guys the sort of invented modern base stealing, none of them uses that stupid crow hop. They go back to the bag the same way every time.....crossing over. Then when they really have to move to get back, all they have to do is crossover faster.
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Ells if you are going to go ....go....If you can't figure the guy out then keep your dick in your pants.
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Oh go tell it to somebody that cares Robie!
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Baseball is a cruel game Jetes...time for the rocking chair dude.
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Jeter looked like he was playing out his own nightmare on that play...."the base is right over there and .....and......and......I JUST CAN'T GET THERE!!! Man that is how I would look trying to make that play......NOW.
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Man Jeter looks like an old olllllld man out there finally!
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This is Whoever-the-f***'s brother Horace Whoever-the-f***. Looks like the Spanks have the whole family out there throwing in the pen.
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Now we get to feast on the world famous Preston Whoever-the-f***.
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Man how many times have we seen Sox pitchers not even looking at the runners this year...one sort of low spot for the staff in general.
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Actually that would be a good reason to try to get demps over to the pen ASAP...he is definitely going to be on the post season roster. But maybe it would be good for Farrell to get a look at demps in certain relief situations more than any of the the other guys who he has already seen.
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Yea I agree with that. My problem with dempster is that all of his swing and miss stuff is down in the zone. If he is up at all he is meat and he is often inexplicably up in the zone. I would be OK bringing him into clean innings as the first RH option out of the pen but I would not ask him to put out a fire. He could easily turn a fire into a conflagration in one pitch.
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Thats a stretch though...Farrell has used Workman in some very tough spots...I am not convinced that Dempster could handle the relief spots that Farrell has tossed Workman into. I can see Morales competing with Thornton for one spot but I can't see the three of them competing for two spots.
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Part of the fun of baseball is the kinds of compromises organizations must make....the decisions they are forced to and how they play out. The Tigers pen is apparently not just bad....it is horrible....yet it seems to me that they decidedly opted to leave it as it was and take their chances. May well work out but Holy Cats....watching Leyland work this series and watching the result is ........interesting to say the least.
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Farrell has been using Workman as his first RH option out of the pen though....and he has used him as his RH fireman...those are pretty important roles. Not sure that jives with pitching in a blowout. Heck you just need somebody to throw strikes at this point. Let them hit it.