The stupidity of baseball fans
Will all of you idiots who insist on calling post-game DodgerTalk and being critical of Manager Jim Tracy for the failure of the Dodger offense to produce more runs do us all a favor and just shut up already??????
I was on my way home tonight after watching yet another in the seemingly endless series of post-season playoff losses by my beloved Los Angeles Dodgers and dialed into their radio post-game programming just in time to hear some nimrod criticizing Jim Tracy for playing Alex Cora even though Cora has been struggling a bit at the plate lately. Never mind the FACT that Cora tripled in one of the three Dodger runs in Game 1's losing effort on Tuesday morning.
Tonight's loss had nothing to do with Tracy's managing and everything to do with the Dodger players and their inability to make key plays and good decisions at the critical junctures. Milton Bradley, who is already in trouble for temper issues, and who according to today's Los Angeles Times called Dodger beat writer Jason Reid "...an Uncle Tom" made a bad decision in the second inning. Rather than let a ball drop in front of him for a single, he dove for it when he had no chance to catch it, in a vain attempt to look good in trapping it. The ball got by him and a routine single became a double. Pitcher Jeff Weaver, after throwing away a pickoff throw, later hit a lead-off batter with a pitch. Simply unforgivable. You don't hit the lead-off batter in an inning..., nor should you be walking him.
Steve Finley swung from his heels at a 3-1 pitch, trying to hit another heroic grand slam home run. Wonderful, except that if he'd just driven the ball into play, a clean single would have scored two very big runs and kept the inning alive for Adrian Beltre. Meanwhile, Beltre, who has carried the Dodger club on his 48 home run hitting back all season popped out in a key two man on, two out situation.
All those things had nothing to do with Jim Tracy's managing and that's why the idiots who call in and rant about his shortcomings need to catch a clue and just shut the hell up.
I was on my way home tonight after watching yet another in the seemingly endless series of post-season playoff losses by my beloved Los Angeles Dodgers and dialed into their radio post-game programming just in time to hear some nimrod criticizing Jim Tracy for playing Alex Cora even though Cora has been struggling a bit at the plate lately. Never mind the FACT that Cora tripled in one of the three Dodger runs in Game 1's losing effort on Tuesday morning.
Tonight's loss had nothing to do with Tracy's managing and everything to do with the Dodger players and their inability to make key plays and good decisions at the critical junctures. Milton Bradley, who is already in trouble for temper issues, and who according to today's Los Angeles Times called Dodger beat writer Jason Reid "...an Uncle Tom" made a bad decision in the second inning. Rather than let a ball drop in front of him for a single, he dove for it when he had no chance to catch it, in a vain attempt to look good in trapping it. The ball got by him and a routine single became a double. Pitcher Jeff Weaver, after throwing away a pickoff throw, later hit a lead-off batter with a pitch. Simply unforgivable. You don't hit the lead-off batter in an inning..., nor should you be walking him.
Steve Finley swung from his heels at a 3-1 pitch, trying to hit another heroic grand slam home run. Wonderful, except that if he'd just driven the ball into play, a clean single would have scored two very big runs and kept the inning alive for Adrian Beltre. Meanwhile, Beltre, who has carried the Dodger club on his 48 home run hitting back all season popped out in a key two man on, two out situation.
All those things had nothing to do with Jim Tracy's managing and that's why the idiots who call in and rant about his shortcomings need to catch a clue and just shut the hell up.
posted by me at 10:24 PM
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