re: Monday Morning Coaches....Give Me A F'n Break

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we played our style of baseball and had some tough breaks

you dont ditch what has worked for you all season in the playoffs

you dont bunt your best bat and you dont do all the other wacky shite that the coaches on here are bitching about

as Mr. Twain said, "It's better to remain silent and everyone think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

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They won, we lost. End of story. Get over it.

Now we get ready for football. Les' balls are what will be for dinner if he screws the season up.

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"It's better to remain silent and everyone think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

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I vote this "Post of the day". This quote is an absolute gem...
(if only I could live by it)

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I don't know how confident you can be asking Gibbs to bunt right there when he hasn't done it all year.

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True, he hasn't bunted all year, but I promise you there's not a player on UCI or UCLA who can't put a bunt down when asked to. I put this back on the coaches that all of our players should be ready/capable of laying that ball down when asked to.

And while we're on bunting, we should have bunted in the 9th also. You take yourself out of the force of a possible double play, and you set yourself up for a single to tie the game or wild pitch/past ball then sac fly scenario.

I would think that if he could go back to that situation he would've asked Gibbs to lay it down...

They bunt all the time in the majors. But what do they know, they have to because they get paid too. You tell me LSU players don't practice bunting. With a dh I would think they do this at every practice. Its fun da mental baseball, wtf.

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outs are the most precious commodity in baseball. you dont just give them away.

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runs are the most important "commodity" in baseball. when you ahve a chance to get 1 (especially when down by 1) you go and get it.

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runs are the most important "commodity" in baseball. when you ahve a chance to get 1 (especially when down by 1) you go and get it.

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still doesnt guarantee the run scoring

3 chances at getting a hit is still a lot better than 2 chances at getting a hit, in my book

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2 on, no outs in your 2nd to last bat when you're stuggling to score runs. Not only do you bunt them over, you bunt the run home if you can.

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so then you have runner at second and third with one out.....maybe. that would depend on a good bunt that was able to move the runner over and not be thrown out at 3B. in no way does that guarantee that the run will score.

if you do that and you still dont score, do you honestly believe that this board would applaud the move? of course they wouldnt. they would be bitching up a storm for taking the bat out of Gibbs' hands. so you can see that, according to this board, that the coaching staff was in a no-win situation. hell, if Gibbs flies out to center or right, he accomplishes the same goal. it just happened that he flew out to LF

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You know as much about baseball as your beloved Mr Twain. STFU

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i dont think you want to get into that pissing match

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You dont ditch what has worked for you all season in the playoffs

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But you should ditch what hasn't worked for you all season. Game 3 against MSU, the Tigers had the bases loaded and no outs late in the game and failed to score and lost 2-1. Fast forward to UCI and deja vu all over again.

I will say it again, CPM becomes an average manager in a low scoring game where every 90' is precious. In those types of game, you cannot afford to walk guys leading off innings especially when your catcher hasn't thrown anyone out in a month. You have to try to manufacture runs against elite pitching.

The fact is that this was not a very talented team and if it would have beaten UCI there was no way it would have beaten UCLA twice. A disspointing season came to a disspointing end.