They should just let Hawk manage the team.

This guy has got to be the dumbest son of a bitch in the entire world. He's approaching Bevington territory now.

just saw the lowlights. Another "tough" loss for Chris Sale. Dude's been hanging with John Danks I guess.

what?

I wonder whose bat he used?

Probably De Aza's. He isn't using it.

They should just let Hawk manage the team.

Serious. Contenders.

Another obsessed Cub fan. Don't you have prospects to worry about?

Someone should tell Sale there is no such thing as bad luck or lack of run support. If he was better then the other pitcher, he would have won. Right, JOE? Winners win and Losers punch club house doors with a bat.

Have to say, this sounds like hindsight commentary. if Ventura pulled Sale and the bullpen gave it up...the story likely would have been he dominated 7 innings and only had 100 pitches. Just sayin'...

Yeah, but every 100 pitch effort isn't the same. If you were watching- and I assume Ventura was- you could see how much trouble Sale had putting away the last man in the seventh. And it wasn't like they were clinging to a lead. The pen should have been able to get 6 outs with a 5-0 lead.

However, Don Cooper should have said something to Ventura, suggesting they need to take him out. That's what the pitching coach is suppose to be watching for.

Yeah. Sale said Cooper asked him and he told him he was still okay. What pitcher is going to say, "I'm done, take me out."? Just about nobody. LeBron James doesn't pitch. That's the manager and/or pitching coach's call.

But what really bothers me about Ventura is that in the next game Sale may be cruising along with a 2-0 lead and- unlike Saturday night- look great finishing the seventh, and this time Ventura will take him out. It's like there's no rhyme or reason with this guy.

Again, I don't usually even talk about managers. I generally don't think they make any difference over the course of a season. Some shit will go their way, some won't. And I know managers have information that we as fans do not. He knows if guys in the pen are sore, etc. But Ventura just does stuff that anyone would consider strange. Pitching Leury Garcia in a tie game. Picking the Dodger game that Dunn would sit out where Dunn was 8 for 13 lifetime vs. the starter.

Hawk could absolutely manage this team as "well" as Ventura

As could JORR, Frank and Brick (Anyone who just went with "the book":would be as good or better)

Someone should tell Sale there is no such thing as bad luck or lack of run support. If he was better then the other pitcher, he would have won. Right, JOE? Winners win and Losers punch club house doors with a bat.