re: No thread complimenting Mainieri for starting Glenn last night?

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It was a dumb mistake to start McCune last Sunday, bottom line. Mainieri certainly makes some good calls, this was not one of them.

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I wouldn't call it a dumb mistake. I would call it a decision, made for pretty good reasons, that didn't work out well.

The biggest characteristic of people who bitch about baseball and don't really understand the game is that they automatically find fault with a decision based on its outcome. Sometimes, a coach can make a quality decision based on sound information, with accepted risk...and it not work out. That doesn't make the decision dumb. In baseball, a ton of decisions are 50/50 type of decisions.

To pretend that Cody Glenn was an irreplaceable part of our rotation heading into Sunday last week is a joke.

To pretend that there was no benefit to trying to find a 4th capable starter(perhaps even an improvement to our 3rd starter) prior to tournament time, from a guy who was coming off an injury and who had been pitching pretty well up to that point is another joke.

To pretend that Mainieri was clueless that his decision was risky and not a guarantee of success is ridiculous.

Having said that, Glenn is pitching his best right now. In a 3rd game type of scenario in postseason, he's the guy that needs to be on the mound.