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  1. Rcal10
    This response doesn’t even address what I said. So no reason to even respond.
  2. Rcal10
    Not even close to the same thing. And, it wasn’t a bad call. Umpires probably have 50 pitches a game that could go either way. Hoerner made less then 10 errors this year. Padres lost that series because their stars were 4 for 33. They didn’t hit. Cubs didn’t lose game one because of the error, but it definitely played a part in a disasterous start. Nico’s error is far less likely than a questionable strike called by an umpire.
  3. Rcal10
    No, that is not it. You just take things over the top. One thing happens and you exaggerate it. You did it with a slump in August this year, you did it when Swanson made an error and you are doing it now. I didn’t agree with Boyd pitching. I said it before he threw his first pitch. Counsell thought otherwise. He didn’t get it right. But that doesn’t mean the other choices would have been much better. Doesn’t mean he lost the game for the team. He made a choice based on data the team had. He picked him out of all iffy choices.
  4. Rcal10
    Why bother. His comment wasn’t worth responding to. Just ranting jibber jabber. And based on his name, you are never going to convince him otherwise.
  5. Rcal10
    Probably. I mean he was terrible in that series loss they had last year to the Mets. Ooops, that wasn’t him. Just another hot take comment, without any merit.
  6. Rcal10
    I leaned starting Assad. I am on record, prior to the first pitch he threw, of not liking the Boyd decision. But I do acknowledge it is a pick from a lot of bad choices. But as ID mentioned, no decision was a sign of waving the white flag. In baseball anything can happen. Counsell made a rational decision based on who he had and it needed up not working out well. No guarantee the other options would have worked either. So we move on and take the next one.
  7. Rcal10
    But is that fair? I mean it is easy to say a decision was bad after it goes bad. Kind of like when a pitcher goes 6 innings and is at 80-90 pitches and is winning by a run. If he stays on and give up the lead people bitch that Counsell should have taken him out. Or it he is taken out and the pen blows the lead the same people will bitch that he should have left him in. And when it works nothing is said. Managers don’t have the luxury of hindsight. He picked Boyd from a collection of iffy choices. It didn’t work. Move on.
  8. Rcal10
    If you are acknowledging that after the fact you are stating it was the wrong decision, based on results, I absolutely agree.
  9. Rcal10
    That is the entire point. We are looking at it after the fact. And I didn’t like the idea of Boyd pitching. TBH, I am not entirely sure I like him pitching if there is a game 4. But no real obviously good choices.
  10. Rcal10
    He threw 56 pitches on Tuesday. It was not irrational to think he could have pitched well on 3 days rest. I believe the though was give us 12’outs. Counsell wasn’t looking for a QS. After the fact that he pitched poorly it is easy to say it was a poor decision. As I have said numerous times now, and I believe looking at my post would inform this, I expected Assad. I believe I said 40% chance Assad, 30% Rea and 30% Soroka. It prior to the results, Counsell’s decision could have just as easily been fine. And, even this game, if Nico doesn’t make an error Boyd is out of the first with 2 runs scored. Maybe he rights himself and does get 9-12 outs. .
  11. Rcal10
    Again, after the fact it is easy to see Rea could have done better. And, as I said, I didn’t like the decision to start Boyd when it was done. But he could have just as easily pitched fine. Even had Nico made the play in the first inning, Boyd might have given them a few more without giving up runs. We don’t know. It was a decision without any real good options. And unfortunately this one didn’t work well.
  12. Rcal10
    I still don’t see the actual yearly salary.
  13. Rcal10
    What did Francona get from the Reds? I believe the report is he got $45M. Not sure the years.
  14. Rcal10
    Wouldn’t that have been the case for game 2, as well? Wouldn’t they have analyzed him and just hit him on Monday? I didn’t agree with starting Boyd. But I do acknowledge that there really wasn’t a good option. Yes, apparently this was a bad decision. But we see that now after the results. Has he done 4 innings giving up just the 2 he gave up before the Nico error we wouldn’t be talking like this. And had Nico made the play that may have happened. Easy to call the manager out after his decision doesn’t wkrk(not saying you are doing that, btw), but really starting Boyd in shirt rest when he only threw 58 pitches on Tuesday is not that crazy a decision. He just didn’t get it done. One comment I heard from the announced in the very first inning was one of them said, now that the Brewers scored runs in the first inning people will suggest the rest was good. Had they went 3 up and 3 down they would have been flat from not playing. So true that most people comment after the fact.
  15. Rcal10
    And you are who determines what someone is worth?
  16. Rcal10
    What does this mean? I am confused. Brown pitched 2 innings.
  17. Rcal10
    Dansby doubles with 2 outs in the 9th trailing by 6. Maybe he should try hitting when it counts…….. Is that good???!
  18. Rcal10
    Sure. He was great in a 6 run game. Wouldn’t trust him in a one run game. And I didn’t even say he suckled. I think he has a lot of potential but too unreliable right now. When he is good, he is very good. But when he unravels he can’t get it back.
  19. Rcal10
    Similar to what I always used to say to my daughters. If you have issues with multiple different people about different things you might want to look in the mirror and see who the problem is.
  20. Rcal10
    It is baseball today. He did a muted version of what the. In’s so when they hit a homer. Really nbd. So many other things to complain about it is strange this is what you picked. I seem to remember Dodger playoff game either last year or the year before wheee they were down something like 10-0 and Mookie doubled. He did a dance on second base.
  21. Rcal10
    He might be. But even if not, he did a great job today eating innings. May come back to be a big deal at some point in the series.
  22. Rcal10
    And there it is. Someone said Happ hitting a homer would somehow have his haters comment against him. Right on que, Caesar responds.
  23. Rcal10
    It sure about that. If Civali goes 5 shut out innings today and his stuff rates out good, why not start him. I believe one of the more stat savvy posters pointed out Civali’s underlying numbers were really good and what he was doing wasn’t smoke and mirrors, like Flexen.
  24. Rcal10
    Wonder if there is a game 4 do the Cubs consider Civali?
  25. Rcal10
    Not a fan of adding Brown. But willing to acknowledge the coaching staff knows better than we do. So if they feel he is the guy I trust them.
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