It’s like the famous quote by a football coach (can’t remember who):
“Three things every man thinks he can do better than every other man: build a fire, grill a steak, and coach football”
Second guessers everywhere.
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Leyland seemed to be a firey, no nonsense guy. I saw a clip of him somewhere chewing out a player, probably at ST. He said “I am the manager of this fucking team” about one hundred times.
Mark’s mom was a big baseball fan and a great coach’s wife. One day after a McCallum baseball game during my first tenure there, I came home for dinner, and we talked about the game. We had no kids at the time. At some point during the discussion, she referred to a specific situation and said “Why didn’t you hit and run there?”
I just looked at her and said “Oh, no. Not you too.”
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In regard to Urquidy.
I think that was Barry…
You saw it too?
Isn’t the book on short-rest that it’s pretty much never worth it?
This at any rate is my received wisdom from hanging out on Fangraphs a lot.
I have no clue. I doubt he will pitch if “it is not worth it.”
Jim Leyland single handedly kept the tobacco industry afloat.
Here it is.
How uncomfortable were #69 and the guy to his left during this?
I just had my friend bail on me for tomorrow night so I have an extra ticket in sec 153. Send me a PM if you’re interested.
You are coming here trying to scalp that ticket. Screw that.
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Jim, I’m just looking for anyone that’s willing to pay face value for it.
Dude, I bought WS face value tickets from a MLB club. $850 may be what you paid StubHub, but it is not face value.
Good luck getting that scalper/ticket broker price.
U FOO!
I don’t know if it will be tonight, or in game 7, but something tells me that Odorizzi is going to have a big part to play before all is said and done. Good or bad I don’t know. I just feel it.
“ Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Odorizzi has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over.”
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They still need to get 54 outs.
I would say 30 is the most you can reasonably expect from: Yimi, Maton. Stanek, Graveman, and Pressly. Maybe 24 is more reasonable ( Maton and Graveman went into day off heavily worked) but let’s say 15 each game.
Hypothetical:
Game 6
Luis and Odorizzi go 5 between them.
Yimi goes in 6th
Maton 7th
Stanek 8th
Pressly 9th
Game 7
Grienke and Urquidy go 5 between them
Yimi 6th
Graveman 7th
Stanek 8th
Pressly 9th.
Feel free to leave the high leverage guys in more than 1 inning if they have an easier inning. But they MUST come out of Game 6 before burning themselves out of game 7 availability/effectiveness.
That leaves Javier, Taylor, Raley, and even Framber to fill in to get through an inning or pick up early outs when this plan inevitably goes awry
Nope.
You win game 6 using whatever the fuck it takes to win game 6.
Trying to save bullets for game 7 is a great way to not get there.
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