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  1. Bellhorn04
    It doesn't necessarily work that way in actual practice though. On the occasions I have suffered through a YES broadcast I have found Michael Kay to be more critical of poor play than his color guys.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Here's an example: A lot of the metrics people say managers don't deploy their closers, or their best relievers, properly, because they save them till the 9th when the critical situation may actually be in the 7th or 8th. But if it doesn't matter much one way or the other, who cares if they do it or not? I find this to be a bit of a logical disconnect...
  3. Bellhorn04
    Yes and no. If you consider pitching changes to be strategy, there's quite a bit of it involved. One of the toughest managerial decisions is knowing when to pull a pitcher who is tiring or who doesn't have their best stuff. A lot of it is guesswork and instinct.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Saying they have played crappy ball the last few games is fair. Saying the team obviously sucks now is stupid.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Now you've opened up the floodgates again Kimmi. I must admit that this particular postulation drives me a little wacky too. I've said myself many times that often the manager is just rolling the dice. But I think sometimes there has to be a pretty meaningful difference between one move or the other.
  6. Bellhorn04
    A valid consideration in respect to which particular players though? Most of the griping has been about Mookie, and his numbers are sensational.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Agreed, and I would add, sometimes good players go through streaks where they look bad...it's the nature of the game.
  8. Bellhorn04
    It's just a handful of Negative Nellies - but it seems like a whole crowd of them when they're posting every two minutes.
  9. Bellhorn04
    A psychologist would find a goldmine of material on a forum like this.
  10. Bellhorn04
    What about Homers?
  11. Bellhorn04
    Everybody wants the best 5, including Cora. But if the team isn't a little more patient than the fans, we're screwed.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Most managers get crucified now and then, especially in the age of the internet. There were Yankee fans who wanted Boone fired about 10 games into his tenure. That talk seems to have quieted down for the moment though...
  13. Bellhorn04
    I like Eckersley but some of this stuff comes with the territory when you enter the arena of being a commentator. If it was Shaughnessy no one would mind. In fact they'd laugh their asses off if a player did something like call him Curly Haired Boyfriend.
  14. Bellhorn04
    At least have the decency to confine this kind of diarrhetic outburst to the game threads.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, you know it's pretty bad when Station 13 has to scold others for being too negative LOL
  16. Bellhorn04
    Betts RF Ramirez DH Martinez LF Moreland 1B Bogaerts SS Nunez 3B Bradley CF Vázquez C Lin 2B
  17. Bellhorn04
    Pomeranz vs. Snell The return of X-Bo. A win makes us 20-5. Let's do it.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Huh? You think Holt would have been sent down?
  19. Bellhorn04
    I can agree that they're meant to enhance. I will say, though, that there can be a fine line between enhancement and overkill. Sometimes when you're watching a game now you feel you're being bombarded with numerical minutiae that is more distracting and annoying than useful. Obviously that has a lot to do with who is delivering the game and the information.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Cora has cojones.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it's a great post-except for the part about barely coming here anymore.
  22. Bellhorn04
    I'd like to see Swihart get some more AB's. But I'm with moonslav on the catching thing. When your pitching is this good you have to give some of the credit to the men behind the dish, whether or not they can hit. I think we have still only had 2 bad outings by our starting pitchers, 24 games into the season.
  23. Bellhorn04
    What you're sayin' is, the best stat in sport will always be represented by the letter Dubya.
  24. Bellhorn04
    That's an excellent way to describe a good manager.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Dombrowski might be thinking the same way. He's been waiting his whole life for a closer like this. How much will it take though?
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