Welcome back to Mets Chat Room. It’s Dog Night at Shea and the pooches are walking the warning track now. … Three Dog Night is the sound track. How original.
If you want to talk about your pets, feel free. There’s other things on the table. Carlos Delgado took grounders today. No problems, so maybe hitting tomorrow. … We have Glavine v. Moyer tonight. … Mets can all but bury Phillies this weekend. … After this weekend, the Mets will have 14 games remaining, all against teams with losing records.
I’m looking forward to talking with you throughout the night. Thanks.
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The following was posted on Metsblog by someone called MealTicket:
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The following quote is from the authors of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball:
Assuming that under the best of circumstances a suicide is occasionally a marginally correct play, which I think is a pretty good assumption, given only that it is one of the rarest elective plays in baseball, it is absolutely, unequivocably, NEVER correct to try a suicide with anything but a single runner on third base (with one out of course).
Case closed. Can we just move on?***
I’m not saying a squeeze might not have been a good idea there, just that it’s not so cut and dried.
They lost because the players didn’t hit enough against lousy pitching, Heilman made a lousy throw to 2nd base, LoDuca lost his temper, and DiFelice couldn’t catch a fly pop.
Willie is a solid average manager who lacks the killer instinct and the means with which to project it successfully to his players. When a game (like last night’s) results in numerous flaws, it ain’t one or a couple of player’s fault. This one belongs to the manager as well it should. He’s not a BAD bad manager, he simply is a conservative, predictable, ‘no-suprise’ type of leader who can’t produce a sudden spark if he tried—and that’s a friggin shame.
error: ^ forgot to eliminate the lower case “bad”.
Willia may not be he a strategic genius on the field but who is? I don’t think they exist. I would like all his critics to name the manager they would like to have instead of Willie and say why he would be so much better. This will be interesting.
Willie is an excellent all-around manager and what he may not have in strategic skills he makes up in other areas.
I also disagree that Willie does not have a killer instinct or that whatever instinct he may or may not have was responsible for the outcome of last night’s game or most of the games this season.