I'm thinking now. How could it be worse?

Bring in someone who knows how to manufacture runs in a pitcher's park.

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> Bring in someone who knows how to manufacture runs in a pitcher's park.

How do you manufacture runs when you have no team speed, dreadful team BA
and OBP, and lead the world in strikeouts? I'd love to know the identity of
the manager you think could pull that off.

badlands420 wrote:
>> Bring in someone who knows how to manufacture runs in a pitcher's
>> park.
>
> How do you manufacture runs when you have no team speed, dreadful
> team BA and OBP, and lead the world in strikeouts? I'd love to know
> the identity of the manager you think could pull that off.

Hell, just bring up the entire Portland Beavers team & see what they can do.
After yesterday's game, it looks like they have more talent than the major
league squad anyway. : )

Go Pads !

On Jul 8, 5:20 pm, "badlands420" <b...@hole.com> wrote:
> > Bring in someone who knows how to manufacture runs in a pitcher's park.
>
> How do you manufacture runs when you have no team speed, dreadful team BA
> and OBP, and lead the world in strikeouts? I'd love to know the identity of
> the manager you think could pull that off.

We need to get rid of the Sandy Alderson braintrust and all their
laptops. Get some real scouting and development going, and not just
Pinochio P. Smith running a "baseball academy" down in the caribbean.

On Jul 8, 5:20 pm, "badlands420" <b...@hole.com> wrote:
> > Bring in someone who knows how to manufacture runs in a pitcher's park.
>
> How do you manufacture runs when you have no team speed, dreadful team BA
> and OBP, and lead the world in strikeouts? I'd love to know the identity of
> the manager you think could pull that off.




You don't need team speed to do stuff like bunt to move a runner
along.

Those are just baseball fundamentals.

> You don't need team speed to do stuff like bunt to move a runner
along.

You do, however, need a fucking runner.

"badlands420" <bung@hole.com> wrote in message
news:VKxdk.2808$LR1.1331@newsfe10.phx...
>> You don't need team speed to do stuff like bunt to move a runner
> along.
>
> You do, however, need a fucking runner.

They do seem to do very little with the ones they get.

I would find the Pads early next years pre-season interesting
if I thought the future of the team was actually these guys.
As it is, I expect more offseason cheapskate recycled
fill in the holes as best they can crap. Every year there are more
holes than last and someone will claim another star is waiting
in AA or triple A but bringing them up now wouldn't be to our
arbitration advantage and they'll probably be a first baseman
anyway.

ScottW

Tar and feather the pathetic bastard.

"Barb B" <barb331@webtv.net> wrote:

> Tar and feather the pathetic bastard.

He cannot manufacture runs in a place that is perfect for it. Bobby Cox did
it for years in Atlanta.

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"Jolly Rogers" <jollyrogers@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Barb B" <barb331@webtv.net> wrote:
>
>> Tar and feather the pathetic bastard.
>
> He cannot manufacture runs in a place that is perfect for it. Bobby Cox
> did it for years in Atlanta.

Bobby Cox managed the Braves in the vaunted "launching pad"... a much
simpler environment to "manufacture runs" in than offense-suppressing PETCO
Park.

> Bobby Cox managed the Braves in the vaunted "launching pad"... a much
> simpler environment to "manufacture runs" in than offense-suppressing
> PETCO Park.

By my tally, Cox has managed the Braves for six years at Fulton County and
12 at Turner Field. The former was indeed a video-game style launching pad,
but I've always thought the latter played pretty fair, at least as fair as
it gets in a climate like that.