Complain about Dale Sveum thread

[Sammy Sofa]

He better be joking, otherwise I demand that Theo and co. [expletive] on his spot in the dugout.

[Hendrys Ghost]

I love Sveum. Nothing beats a perfect sac bunt and he is not going to let the media or fans tell him how to manage his team. More contests, please.

[Sammy Sofa]

I love Sveum. Nothing beats a perfect sac bunt

 

What the hell does that have to do with what happened with Castro last night?

[C.C.]

Blah!

[Guest]

Just noticed the misspelling on the thread title. Heh.

[Guest]

I love Sveum. Nothing beats a perfect sac bunt

 

What the hell does that have to do with what happened with Castro last night?

 

He's clearly a troll. Why bother?

[Old Style]

Just noticed the misspelling on the thread title. Heh.

D'oh! It's been fixed.

[Guest]

After that cybermetrics comment, I'll comfort myself with the fact that the defensive positioning stuff is probably the most impactful (did I make that word up?) thing (toward winning) that a manager can do other than not hurting his team offensively by pulling too much dumb overmanagey crap.

 

Hopefully the sac bunts with the 3 hitter are few and far between, regardless of his comment today.

[Rizzo Smash]

Pitching to Yadier Molina with AAA Matt Carpenter on deck. Bad, bad, bad.

[Guest]

No, you definitely pitch to Molina there. Both have hit similarly overall this year, Carpenter is LH and had just hit a HR.

[SouthSideRyan]

Yep, and it's not like Molina crushed the ball. He hit a seeing-eye single.

[Guest]

I was critical of him early on, but aside from the Castro thing I thinks he's made mostly good decisions, I like him.

[bhogg]

Who does he think he is, Ryne Sandberg??

[Omar]

Will the Cubs ever get a manager this board doesn't complain about?

[Geech]

Will the Cubs ever get a manager this board doesn't complain about?

 

Probably not, especially since "this board" is comprised of individuals who have different opinions. In this thread, for example, quite a few people stick up for Dale.

[Soul]

Will the Cubs ever get a manager this board doesn't complain about?

 

Nope. No team has ever had such a manager.

[Clem Fandango]

His last name is stupid and is spelled completely wrong. He should go back to Dutchville with all the Dutch people where they make butter and [expletive].

[Old Style]

Will the Cubs ever get a manager this board doesn't complain about?

 

Probably not, especially since "this board" is comprised of individuals who have different opinions. In this thread, for example, quite a few people stick up for Dale.

And just because you complain about something he does in one game doesn't mean that you don't like him as manager.

[TruffleShuffle]

OF COURSE the article mentions "not being able to execute a bunt." [expletive] BUNTS.

 

Pretty annoying that Sullivan would rather criticize Castro's "inability" to lay down a bunt rather than the decision to have him do so, but w/e.

 

yeah shocking that a guy who hasn't been asked to bunt in a game in a year and a half didn't do so effectively.

[TruffleShuffle]

dp Edited May 16, 2012 by TruffleShuffle

[Little Slide Rooter]

OF COURSE the article mentions "not being able to execute a bunt." [expletive] BUNTS.

 

Pretty annoying that Sullivan would rather criticize Castro's "inability" to lay down a bunt rather than the decision to have him do so, but w/e.

 

yeah shocking that a guy who hasn't been asked to bunt in a game in a year and a half didn't do so effectively.

 

Come on, he had an entire offseason tournament to learn.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm not *that* unhappy about the bunts. I could do without them, but in a low-offense environment? It's pretty close to a wash.

[Magnetic Curses]

my problem with the bunt is mostly that it had zero chance to produce the desired outcome anyway, so it was, at best, a waste of one of our 2 best hitters. it's like sveum was going through the proverbial old timey manager's handbook line-by-line for the sake of doing things the "right way". YOU HAVE TO TRY, AT LEAST, YOU HAVE TO TRY!

[treebird]

my problem with the bunt is mostly that it had zero chance to produce the desired outcome anyway, so it was, at best, a waste of one of our 2 best hitters. it's like sveum was going through the proverbial old timey manager's handbook line-by-line for the sake of doing things the "right way". YOU HAVE TO TRY, AT LEAST, YOU HAVE TO TRY!

 

the kid in little big league would have deftly outmaneuvered dale here, this was like the exact scenario they tested on him before he got the job

[Tracer Bullet]

Will the Cubs ever get a manager this board doesn't complain about?

 

Probably not, especially since "this board" is comprised of individuals who have different opinions. In this thread, for example, quite a few people stick up for Dale.

 

This response is so perfect it bears repeating.