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Post by unionstation82 on Jun 20, 2021 15:52:26 GMT -6
I nominate the jokers who couldn’t tag out Correa between first and second.
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Post by blcoach8 on Jun 20, 2021 16:15:23 GMT -6
I nominate the jokers who couldn’t tag out Correa between first and second. I will go a step farther and include the idiots who let McCormick's fly drop between them for a double after it was in the air for seven seconds. LOL |
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Post by m240 on Jun 20, 2021 16:55:09 GMT -6
If I am not mistaken the Astros have the fewest unearned runs allowed. The difference in defense was on display in this series.
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Post by blcoach8 on Jun 24, 2021 21:51:36 GMT -6
Tonight's DUMBASS OF THE GAME is Nomar Mazara for his pitiful baserunning. LOL
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Post by blcoach8 on Jul 21, 2021 21:31:36 GMT -6
I have to revive the DUMBASS OF THE GAME tonight. By unanimous decision it goes to Dusty Baker for sending Austin Pruitt out in a tie game in the 7th to give up a home run and cost us the game. Pruitt sucks ass and Dusty screwed up.........again.
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Post by unionstation82 on Jul 23, 2021 12:02:09 GMT -6
I have to revive the DUMBASS OF THE GAME tonight. By unanimous decision it goes to Dusty Baker for sending Austin Pruitt out in a tie game in the 7th to give up a home run and cost us the game. Pruitt sucks ass and Dusty screwed up.........again. At a certain point, you have to admit the bullpen is just terrible. You can’t use the same guys every game. |
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Post by blcoach8 on Jul 23, 2021 12:14:07 GMT -6
I have to revive the DUMBASS OF THE GAME tonight. By unanimous decision it goes to Dusty Baker for sending Austin Pruitt out in a tie game in the 7th to give up a home run and cost us the game. Pruitt sucks ass and Dusty screwed up.........again. At a certain point, you have to admit the bullpen is just terrible. You can’t use the same guys every game. I have been saying the bullpen is terrible all season. Adding Pruitt didn't change a thing. I said Dusty was the dumbass of the game for using him in the situation he did. A tie game in the 7th was not when to use Pruitt and he proved it. It made no sense to "stay away" from Javier and blow the game by using Pruitt. Just another example of his many years of mishandling pitchers. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Jul 23, 2021 12:18:09 GMT -6
At a certain point, you have to admit the bullpen is just terrible. You can’t use the same guys every game. I have been saying the bullpen is terrible all season. Adding Pruitt didn't change a thing. I said Dusty was the dumbass of the game for using him in the situation he did. A tie game in the 7th was not when to use Pruitt and he proved it. It made no sense to "stay away" from Javier and blow the game by using Pruitt. Just another example of his many years of mishandling pitchers. Javier is inconsistent. He could blow it just as much as anyone else. Dusty is a little screwed here. |
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Post by blcoach8 on Jul 23, 2021 14:45:20 GMT -6
I have been saying the bullpen is terrible all season. Adding Pruitt didn't change a thing. I said Dusty was the dumbass of the game for using him in the situation he did. A tie game in the 7th was not when to use Pruitt and he proved it. It made no sense to "stay away" from Javier and blow the game by using Pruitt. Just another example of his many years of mishandling pitchers. Javier is inconsistent. He could blow it just as much as anyone else. Dusty is a little screwed here. Javier is best when he comes in at the beginning of an inning. We don't have a guy who can be counted on to consistently come in with runners on base and keep them from scoring. |
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Post by blcoach8 on Jul 26, 2021 23:53:19 GMT -6
Dusty Baker is the unanimous DUMBASS OF THIS GAME for brining Raley in to give up a grand slam.
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Post by abregmanfan on Jul 27, 2021 7:44:18 GMT -6
No excuse for the loss. Up 6-0 in the first and you blow it. Horrible.
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Post by blcoach8 on Jul 27, 2021 9:36:41 GMT -6
No excuse for the loss. Up 6-0 in the first and you blow it. Horrible. When you bring in reliever just off the IL, who had basically sucked in 90% of his games, in the 8th with a one run lead, two outs, two on, you are asking to lose. Raley promptly walked the first guy to load the bases before coughing up the game-winning grand slam. |
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Post by blcoach8 on Aug 17, 2021 9:45:38 GMT -6
After last night's debacle, I think we need to revive this award and name multiple winners.
1. Dusty Baker for sending Odorizzi back to the mound in the 6th and for not ordering an intentional walk to Perez in the 8th.
2 Chas McCormick for his brain fart on the bases by trying to advance to third on a ground ball hit in front of him.
3. Michael Brantley for getting picked off first base as Jose went to third on a wild pitch. Jose made it easily. Michael froze and got nailed going back to first.
We just played bad baseball last night.
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Post by thomasj13 on Aug 17, 2021 10:10:01 GMT -6
After last night's debacle, I think we need to revive this award and name multiple winners. 1. Dusty Baker for sending Odorizzi back to the mound in the 6th and for not ordering an intentional walk to Perez in the 8th. 2 Chas McCormick for his brain fart on the bases by trying to advance to third on a ground ball hit in front of him. 3. Michael Brantley for getting picked off first base as Jose went to third on a wild pitch. Jose made it easily. Michael froze and got nailed going back to first. We just played bad baseball last night. Bush League Baseball. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Aug 17, 2021 10:11:38 GMT -6
After last night's debacle, I think we need to revive this award and name multiple winners. 1. Dusty Baker for sending Odorizzi back to the mound in the 6th and for not ordering an intentional walk to Perez in the 8th. 2 Chas McCormick for his brain fart on the bases by trying to advance to third on a ground ball hit in front of him. 3. Michael Brantley for getting picked off first base as Jose went to third on a wild pitch. Jose made it easily. Michael froze and got nailed going back to first. We just played bad baseball last night. Bad baserunning is a constant when guys like Hinch and Baker prefer to be bros with the players instead of telling them they’re playing like shit when it happens. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Aug 17, 2021 10:15:07 GMT -6
The game was lost when García pitched to Pérez instead of walking him. If Santana beats you, so be it. As it turned out, Pérez got a clean single and Santana hit a pop up. Since Dusty was saving Graveman and Pressly for a tie or a lead, the strategy should’ve been to hold the tie until the offense scored again.
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Post by blcoach8 on Aug 17, 2021 11:08:38 GMT -6
The game was lost when García pitched to Pérez instead of walking him. If Santana beats you, so be it. As it turned out, Pérez got a clean single and Santana hit a pop up. Since Dusty was saving Graveman and Pressly for a tie or a lead, the strategy should’ve been to hold the tie until the offense scored again. He should have had Graveman in there for the 8th. If he had, the game would have probably been tied when Castro homered in the 9th and Pressly could have gone for the save. More evidence that Dusty is totally clueless in those situations. |
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Post by blcoach8 on Aug 17, 2021 11:12:42 GMT -6
After last night's debacle, I think we need to revive this award and name multiple winners. 1. Dusty Baker for sending Odorizzi back to the mound in the 6th and for not ordering an intentional walk to Perez in the 8th. 2 Chas McCormick for his brain fart on the bases by trying to advance to third on a ground ball hit in front of him. 3. Michael Brantley for getting picked off first base as Jose went to third on a wild pitch. Jose made it easily. Michael froze and got nailed going back to first. We just played bad baseball last night. Bad baserunning is a constant when guys like Hinch and Baker prefer to be bros with the players instead of telling them they’re playing like shit when it happens. Not having the guts to call players out for mental mistakes has become the norm. I'm not saying to call them out in the media, but, call them in for a one on one and get the point across. Mistakes like McCormick made should not be tolerated. Running inside the foul line in LA by Jose was another mental error. There more mental mistakes you eliminate, the better chance you have of winning in any sport. A manager or coach can have a good, close relationship with players without being their "bro" or "buddy". There needs to be a line the player knows not to cross. Baker always makes excuses for his players' brain farts and that makes him sound stupid. |
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Post by Hunter McCormick on Aug 19, 2021 7:54:40 GMT -6
Not having the guts to call players out for mental mistakes has become the norm. I'm not saying to call them out in the media, but, call them in for a one on one and get the point across I'm sure your 'sources' tell you that hasn't happened. Right VooDoo? But more to the point, there are things a team can learn from what went wrong during the course of a game. Good managers downplay the mistakes when talking with the media. Hinch has had plenty of losses this season and there have been mental mistakes. He has never thrown his players under the bus for those mistakes, in front of the media. One on one? Not the best way to deal with that, in my opinion. In private team meetings, for sure. And rather than playing the blame game, you and others on this forum love to do, a simple observation of what went wrong and how to recognize and avoid the mistakes in the future, serves the entire team as a learning experience.
Calling out players is personal and destructive. Identifying mistakes that were made can be constructive.
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Post by blcoach8 on Aug 19, 2021 9:21:42 GMT -6
Not having the guts to call players out for mental mistakes has become the norm. I'm not saying to call them out in the media, but, call them in for a one on one and get the point across I'm sure your 'sources' tell you that hasn't happened. Right VooDoo? But more to the point, there are things a team can learn from what went wrong during the course of a game. Good managers downplay the mistakes when talking with the media. Hinch has had plenty of losses this season and there have been mental mistakes. He has never thrown his players under the bus for those mistakes, in front of the media. One on one? Not the best way to deal with that, in my opinion. In private team meetings, for sure. And rather than playing the blame game, you and others on this forum love to do, a simple observation of what went wrong and how to recognize and avoid the mistakes in the future, serves the entire team as a learning experience.
Calling out players is personal and destructive. Identifying mistakes that were made can be constructive.
Show us where I said Dusty should call players out in the media. I never said it and it should not happen. Things like that should be done in one on one meetings with players. I don't expect him to "throw his players under the bus" and he should not. I have had experience with one on one meetings and team meetings, Of course, I dealt with high school kids and not professionals. One on one always worked better for me because sometimes you need to address specific things with an individual player and doing so in team meetings is not the best way to handle it. |
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Post by Hunter McCormick on Aug 19, 2021 10:47:18 GMT -6
Show us where I said Dusty should call players out in the media. Completely unnecessary. I already included the second sentence in your post where you said: "I'm not saying to call them out in the media" which clears you in that regard. But that doesn't change the fact that your first sentence is absolutely and completely preposterous: "Not having the guts to call players out for mental mistakes has become the norm."None of us know what is being said behind closed doors. Except for VooDoo with his inside information regarding trade and FA negotiations and in this case, you with your inside knowledge of Astros team meetings and on-on-one conversations. lol One on one always worked better for me because sometimes you need to address specific things with an individual player and doing so in team meetings is not the best way to handle it. In that case, urdoonitrong. There are rare cases where one-on-one is more appropriate, but in general an analysis of mistakes that were made (without pointing the finger of blame) is of great benefit to the entire team. Players are human beings and humans make mistakes. That's a given. Teaching one player to learn from his mistake is a missed opportunity. An intelligent coach shares the learning experience with the entire team, whenever appropriate.
I realize the concept of using mistakes as a team learning experience will seem foreign to coaches focused on 'calling out' players, but framed properly it's good for the relationship between the player who made the mistake and the rest of the team.
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Post by blcoach8 on Aug 19, 2021 11:20:56 GMT -6
Show us where I said Dusty should call players out in the media. Completely unnecessary. I already included the second sentence in your post where you said: "I'm not saying to call them out in the media" which clears you in that regard. But that doesn't change the fact that your first sentence is absolutely and completely preposterous: "Not having the guts to call players out for mental mistakes has become the norm."None of us know what is being said behind closed doors. Except for VooDoo with his inside information regarding trade and FA negotiations and in this case, you with your inside knowledge of Astros team meetings and on-on-one conversations. lol One on one always worked better for me because sometimes you need to address specific things with an individual player and doing so in team meetings is not the best way to handle it. In that case, urdoonitrong. There are rare cases where one-on-one is more appropriate, but in general an analysis of mistakes that were made (without pointing the finger of blame) is of great benefit to the entire team. Players are human beings and humans make mistakes. That's a given. Teaching one player to learn from his mistake is a missed opportunity. An intelligent coach shares the learning experience with the entire team, whenever appropriate.
I realize the concept of using mistakes as a team learning experience will seem foreign to coaches focused on 'calling out' players, but framed properly it's good for the relationship between the player who made the mistake and the rest of the team.
Do you have personal experience with one on one meetings or are you just assuming how they work? If one player continues making the same mental mistake, you address it with the player who is making it.....not the entire team. An "intelligent coach" knows what to share with an entire team and what to handle on an individual basis with those involved. You handle the problem with the player who has it. I never called out an individual player in front of the team. I did it in private. If there was a team problem, that was addressed with the team. If an outfielder continued to throw to the wrong base, you address it with him...not the infielders. Mental mistakes are corrected by working with those who are making them. The rest of the team sees who is making the same mental errors over and over. The coach doesn't have to point it out to them. The coach works with the player who continues to make the mistake. You don't develop good relationships with players by holding everyone accountable for the mistakes of one. If Dusty is actually trying to deal with problems "behind closed doors", we see no indication of it being successful. If there is any type of attempt to correct this problem of blowing games to last place teams, we don't see it. The A's have dropped three straight to the best team in the AL Central which should have meant we increased our lead. Instead, we tank three games against the last place team in the same division. That is pathetic. |
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Post by Hunter McCormick on Aug 20, 2021 8:34:53 GMT -6
Do you have personal experience with one on one meetings or are you just assuming how they work? I have extensive personal experience with problem solving through both one-on-one meetings and team/group meetings. Some as a subordinate but far more in a supervisory role. Thank you for asking. And I noticed you began with a question. The most productive problem solving meetings are based around questions, rather than statements such as: "This will not tolerated."If one player continues making the same mental mistake, you address it with the player who is making it.....not the entire team. Occasionally true, when it is highly unlikely any other player will make the same mistake in the future. Else, it benefits the entire team (or part of the team, such as position players) to examine what led up to the mental mistake and how to avoid/reduce the number of occurrences in the future. Some mental mistakes are a result of lack of situational awareness. Others are a result of bad decisions and/or missing cues that guide one to a better decision. Often it's a combination of factors. Situations vary. The actions required for some are easily defined. For instance in baserunning, if there are two outs and the base ahead of you is a potential force out, you go at the crack of the bat. There really isn't a decision to be made. Less than two outs and/or not a possible force at the next base means you need to look for cues before making the decision to advance. An "intelligent coach" knows what to share with an entire team and what to handle on an individual basis with those involved. Absolutely true. And in more cases than not, examining mental mistakes benefits the entire team. You handle the problem with the player who has it. Occasionally true. I never called out an individual player in front of the team. I did it in private. Even in private, "calling out a player" sets the wrong tone. A discussion of what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future is forward-looking and productive. Since you don't know what was going through the player's mind at the time they made the mental mistake, it's often necessary to ask questions and if possible, include the player(s) in arriving at the solution. |
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Post by koolade2 on Sept 1, 2021 17:45:33 GMT -6
I posted this in off topic but since it fits for Corch's I thought here would be good too  |
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Post by blcoach8 on Sept 1, 2021 17:49:15 GMT -6
I posted this in off topic but since it fits for Corch's I thought here would be good too He is worse than your average dumbass. His being a damn fool cost 13 Marines their lives and his Afghanistan fiasco made us the laughing stock of the planet. |
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Post by unionstation82 on Sept 1, 2021 18:17:10 GMT -6
DoG: The offense.
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Post by blcoach8 on Sept 1, 2021 20:10:18 GMT -6
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Post by abregmanfan on Sept 1, 2021 20:23:26 GMT -6
The only thing I learnt from that there picture is that Joe is turning 79!
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Post by blcoach8 on Sept 23, 2021 11:12:00 GMT -6
Unanimous DUMBASS OF THE GAME last night was our regular winner, Dusty Baker, for pulling Yordan out of a tie game in the 8th inning. He replaced him with Siri so when Yordan's spot in the lineup came up in extras, we had Siri coming up instead of Yordan. Dusty then made another brilliant move and sent Diaz up to PH for Siri. Diaz struck out twice. We managed to overcome Dusty's stupidity when Chas singled Marwin to third in the 12th so Meyers could drive him in with what proved to be the winning run. This teams continues to overcome having an idiot for a manager.
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Post by abregmanfan on Sept 24, 2021 12:15:16 GMT -6
Unanimous DUMBASS OF THE GAME last night was our regular winner, Dusty Baker, for pulling Yordan out of a tie game in the 8th inning. He replaced him with Siri so when Yordan's spot in the lineup came up in extras, we had Siri coming up instead of Yordan. Dusty then made another brilliant move and sent Diaz up to PH for Siri. Diaz struck out twice. We managed to overcome Dusty's stupidity when Chas singled Marwin to third in the 12th so Meyers could drive him in with what proved to be the winning run. This teams continues to overcome having an idiot for a manager. I noticed the thread has been changed to Corch the dumbass' player of the game.... Lol. |
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