Balta1701

Astronaut Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11.

Was it around April 7 that the team got shot #1?

An appropriate description of Tony LaRussa.

Fine. Then if you’re sending him out for the 7th, you have the bullpen warm behind him and when he walks the first batter because he doesn’t have enough left in the tank to throw an out pitch, you go get him and let people applaud as he leaves.

So you agree that you were wrong to say “it’s silly to say Tony LaRussa doesn’t understand situational baseball” as obviously it can’t be silly if there are two sides. Thank you for retracting your statement.

Bull plop. He had one awful game against Boston (not LaRussa’s fault). He had one great game against Cleveland. He has had 1 game where the manager gave up 3 runs credited to him. He started off with a terrible game against Minnesota last season too.

And the you said “for any of us to imply TL doesn't understand situational baseball is just silly” when LaRussa continues not understanding situational baseball. In your eyes he must always be defended.

No, you’re defending the manager as a position that can never be second guessed.

6 IP and 1 run isn’t good enough for you?

No, managers look stupid when they do stupid things. When players are out in the right spot they will still often fail. Vaughn probably doesn’t hit a 3 run home run in the 8th. Foster or Bummer might well have been hit in the 7th. When you put guys into a position where they have their best shot to succeed and they don’t, people don’t blame the manager. People blame the manager when he says things about wanting a single with the tying run at home plate or when he doesn’t recognize that his starter gave everything he had, or even ask, and puts guys into positions to fail.

So wait, can we bring Frank out of retirement? I want to know how well those Nugenix pills actually work.

Then he would have tried to figure out how to fire LaRussa. Wait…

When he last managed, pitchers weren’t always going max effort so guys could more commonly throw 120 pitches. He literally told everyone that baseball today needed to be shown how things used to be done.

That’s some box score line.

Wait...is that...naw...right?

The New York version of their passport allows either vaccination or a verified recent negative test.

Apparently I just am not allowed to read Twitter today as roughly every FWS character is trending.

Has anyone in here suggested that with Cora back and the video room available the Red Sox might have a little help interpreting pitches again?

14 games played. 14 different lineups.

The way Lopez was pitching in the spring, starting him is likely to mean a bullpen game anyway.

Is there some reason why Luca$ can't go for the second game on Sunday? He'd be on N ormal rest there, Rodon would be on normal rest on Monday, Lynn would be on normal rest on Tuesday.