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From: john smith on 15 May 2010 13:24
I disagree John K, Baker played it wrong. You don't put up a humpty
dumpty up in that situation. You prolong the game. Slow guys can't hit
in that situation. Owings homered off this guy last year, he, Nix or
Janish were better options and I can get 6 million other people on the
interenet that agree with me because they don't live in a land of Red
Kool Aid.... Just an opinion.

From: HTP on 15 May 2010 15:40
On May 15, 10:24 am, eddyg...(a)msn.com (john smith) wrote:
>  I disagree John K, Baker played it wrong. You don't put up a humpty
> dumpty up in that situation. You prolong the game. Slow guys can't hit
> in that situation. Owings homered off this guy last year, he, Nix or
> Janish were better options and I can get 6 million other people on the
> interenet that agree with me because they don't live in a land of Red
> Kool Aid.... Just an opinion.

Oh be quiet. You just dont like Ramon "rusty gate" Hernandez, or Aaron
"bang bang" Harang for that matter. You take a disliking to someone
and you cant think straight. Thats all there is to it. Stop pretending
that you've arrived at your objections through reasoning.
From: John Kasupski on 16 May 2010 07:54
On Sat, 15 May 2010 10:24:05 -0700, eddygdvd(a)msn.com (john smith) wrote:

> I disagree John K, Baker played it wrong. You don't put up a humpty
>dumpty up in that situation. You prolong the game. Slow guys can't hit
>in that situation. Owings homered off this guy last year, he, Nix or
>Janish were better options and I can get 6 million other people on the
>interenet that agree with me because they don't live in a land of Red
>Kool Aid.... Just an opinion.

Nix apparently was unavailable and thus not an option at all.

Beyond that, you are of course entitled to your opinion, sir. But this has
nothing to do with being under the influence of what you call "Red Kool Aid" and
it doesn't really matter whether you can find six million other people on the
Internet to agree with you or not. That just proves there's six million people
on the Internet who need to go to The Clue Booth and buy a clue because they
obviously don't have one.

That comes as no surprise whatsoever, because as someone much wiser than myself
once observed, there are three things that every male in America thinks he can
do better than any other male in America - barbecue a steak, make love to a
woman, and manage a baseball team.

The issue here is this: you don't manage games in the middle of May like it's
the seventh game of the World Series. History has repeatedly shown that such an
approach to managing is going to produce far more problems than those few wins
you might scratch out by managing that way are worth.

JK

From: john smith on 16 May 2010 09:04
John K, we can agree to disagree on this decision . In the grand scheme
of things, our debates and discussions on Reds baseball don't amount to
hill of beans.

From: Brian Douglas on 16 May 2010 13:38
"john smith" <eddygdvd(a)msn.com> wrote in message
news:6578-4BEFED7B-3563(a)baytvnwsxa001.msntv.msn.com...
> John K, we can agree to disagree on this decision . In the grand scheme
> of things, our debates and discussions on Reds baseball don't amount to
> hill of beans.

Just for what it is worth, the way Hernandez hits behind runners, and the
given situation, I was okay with the Baker decision.

Just in fairness, if you are going to rip Baker for a PH choice you must
give him credit the following night for running Heisey out there as a late
inning defensive replacement, and have him figure in the key play.

Throw Hernandez a little credit as well for his play at the plate. Despite
the announcer's description of 'two perfect throws', Cabrera's throw was
sufficient, but far from perfect.


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