"Managing this pitching staff is easy because everyone knows their role, and they know I try to give them the best opportunity to succeed,'' Guillen said.

 

Discuss.

Why?

Name a pitcher that Ozzie hasn't give a chance to succeed?

"Managing this pitching staff is easy because everyone knows their role, and they know I try to give them the best opportunity to succeed,'' Guillen said.

 

Discuss.

Is putting kevin walker a rookie in a 1 run game giving him a chance to succeed

Why?

Name a pitcher that Ozzie hasn't give a chance to succeed?

 

I wasn't so much laughing at that part. It was more of the "it's easy to manage this pitching staff" part that made me chuckle.

Is putting kevin walker a rookie in a 1 run game giving him a chance to succeed

 

exactly. ozzie is terrible at managing the bullpen. hence, the laughter.

Is putting kevin walker a rookie in a 1 run game giving him a chance to succeed

Kevin Walker isn't a rookie he's been in the league for 6 years.

Kevin Walker isn't a rookie he's been in the league for 6 years.

He is a rookie in experience he doesnt even have 100innings pitched in his career

He is a rookie in experience he doesnt even have 100innings pitched in his career

He's a reliever. It takes a while for a middle reliever who has bounced between AAA and the big leagues for 6 years to accumulate 100 innings. That doesn't make him a rookie.

One more thing on Kevin Walker.

 

He had 66.2 innings pitched in 2000.

exactly. ozzie is terrible at managing the bullpen. hence, the laughter.

Really?

How many games have we lost because of it?

He is a rookie in experience he doesnt even have 100innings pitched in his career

He has 97 MLB innings, he is not inexperienced.

He has 97 MLB innings, he is not inexperienced.

He isn't experienced until he gets to 100 innings, what are you thinking.

Really?

How many games have we lost because of it?

 

just because we haven't lost EVERY time he's gone to Marte in the ninth doesn't make it right.

 

but off the top of my head, he left garland in too long against the rangers, took mccarthy out too early against the cubs, really screwed the pooch with buerhle in the ninth inning on memorial day, brought in walker two days later in a one-run game, and this is all in the last week.

 

i'd say he lost us about 10-15 games last year with his pitching management.

just because we haven't lost EVERY time he's gone to Marte in the ninth doesn't make it right.

 

but off the top of my head, he left garland in too long against the rangers, took mccarthy out too early against the cubs, really screwed the pooch with buerhle in the ninth inning on memorial day, brought in walker two days later in a one-run game, and this is all in the last week.

 

i'd say he lost us about 10-15 games last year with his pitching management.

 

So you are saying we should be something like 53-2?

Is Ozzie terrible at managing a bullpen? Yes.

Is Ozzie for some strange reason infatuated with Timo? Yes.

Are the Sox 37-18? YES, SO WHO THE f*** CARES!!! Just enjoy the ride

Edited June 5, 200520 yr by mac9001

QUOTE(mac9001 @ Jun 5, 2005 -> 07:07 PM)

Is Ozzie terrible at managing a bullpen? Yes.

Is Ozzie for some strange reason infatuated with Timo? Yes.

Are the Sox 37-18? YES, SO WHO THE f*** CARES!!! Just enjoy the ride

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That's a terrible way of looking at things.

That's a terrible way of looking at things.

 

No it's not. I'm a fan, i watch baseball for entertainment purposes. Why should i second guess every move the manger makes? That's KW's job, that's some jackass reporters job. All i ask from Ozzie and the Sox is to bring me some worthy entertainment, they've done that. So sit back relax and enjoy the ride. b****ing about Ozzie won't improve his crappy bullpen management and he's not getting fired any time soon. Enjoy being in first place and holding the league's best record in early June, it might be a while until the Sox are in this position again.

So you are saying we should be something like 53-2?

 

I wouldn't mind that a bit.

So you are saying we should be something like 53-2?

 

 

While I don't necessarily agree with the above poster's logic, I can understand where he comes from and I do think I know what he's talking about.

 

Off the top of my head, I can't name all the games Ozzie has made a real big-time blunder when it comes to managing the pen, because he has been horrible about it. I would also say that 10-15 games is not an unreasonable amount

 

We've also had a lot of luck on our side this year, so that needs to be considered.

 

What I would say is that Ozzie has theoretically(as an example, Memorial Day...that was a game we should have lost, and we should have lost it because Ozzie messed up) or literally(no explanation needed) "lost" 10-15 games this year with bullpen f*** ups. What is not taken into consideration in his post is how many games Ozzie has won with just his prescence in the clubhouse and his ability to have changed the mindset of the entire team(with the help from KW) in less than 2 years. He is the reason we are 37-19 right now...there is something about him that makes players run through walls for him. They love the guy and love playing for him.

Good teams make their own luck, wite. The Twins have been "lucky" for the past 3 years.

Good teams make their own luck, wite.  The Twins have been "lucky" for the past 3 years.

 

I'd agree if the Sox had been lucky like this for the past 3 years.

 

I've only seen it in the first half last year(specifically April), and then this entire year...mainly, again, the first half.

Obviously, everyone wanted to sweep, but like I said one month ago, every time we take two out of three and take the series, that's all we can do.

 

Here's another gem from Ozzie.

 

Now I understand why we don't finish off any sweeps. Nice attitude Oz. Actually there is a little more you can do. You could start by not playing eenie meeni minie moe with your lineup card on the last game of each sereis.

it will all change we wil sweep the rockies, most of our game three lineups played in the national league and have seen coors and have hit their

 

ozuna uribe timo

Edited June 6, 200520 yr by chi-guy2

He isn't experienced until he gets to 100 innings, what are you thinking.

DAMN!

 

We shoulda kept him on for 3 more innings!

I don't agree with the idea of Ozzie being bad at managing the bullpen. I can understand the moves he makes. he goes off instinct and heart, as he mentioned pertaining to BMAC on the 3rd Cubs game. Call me naive but I can see that. If he was managing the bullpen poorly, we surely wouldn't have as good a record as we have.

Edited June 6, 200520 yr by TheBigHurt