Run support
Coaching
Managing
1st base defense


I'll add more as they come up. I'm sure they will.

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Dumb Darkside was so dumb...

HOW DUMB WAS HE??????

1) I never said "run support" doesn't matter. I said it doesn't exist. It's nothing more than the runs allowed by the opposing pitcher(s) within the context of a single baseball game.

2) I never said coaching doesn't matter.

3) They may matter, but the way in which they do is impossible to measure and you can't tell me what makes a good manager besides, "Uh, duh uh, eh, I think Joe Maddon is good."

4) It doesn't. Almost completely negligible.

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If it doesn't exist then it doesn't matter. Obviously.
You've said managing doesn't matter. Said that all they do is fill out lineup cards and anyone can do it. If managing doesn't matter or if anyone can do it I don't see how coaching can matter.

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Oh, he matters. The same way a nasty rash does.

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Where did you learn that logic? Conant?

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He needs me. I'm like beloq to his Indiana Jones.

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Tell that to Mark Parent ...

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How can something matter if it does not exist?
You'll argue anything.

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You both matter to me.

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I heart u

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Suck up, spmack doesn't like this.

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What I've said was "TOO MUCH IS MADE OF MANAGERS." There's no point in talking about how much they may or may not matter since no one has any idea how to measure such a thing or what makes a good one or how a good one got bad when you ran him out of town. Hell, just a couple days ago some of your fellow Cub fans were calling Maddon a fool for not starting Schwarber. I guess a manager matters when goofs on the Internet don't agree with his decisions.

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This is getting deep. Descartes is being invoked.

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Conant? How did my high school (imu's too I think) get into this conversation. DS did you go to Conant?

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Dese what?

DesCARTES!

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Don't change your narrative. Stick to it. It's something I love about you.

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Are you familiar with the term "common denominator"?

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JORR, serious question.

What are your thoughts on Mattingly?

It won't be deep enough until the black beauty is balls deep.

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Well if JORR says I did.... he can't be wrong.

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Indeed, this place has taught me a lot about the lowest common denominator.

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At least I made the 9:43 metra train. The question is, what to do about tomorrow's game?

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Get shitfaced celebrating.

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He is never wrong. Just ask him.

I'm already there. I'd be worse but the bleachers turned into assigned seating, and it wasn't worth getting up.

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He's not a true Yankee. How could you possibly play so many seasons in pinstripes without winning a championship?

You mean as a manager? I think he knows baseball as well as Joe Maddon. At times Maddon may have a team that gets fired up by flamingos. At other times he might have a team that is annoyed by them. I think the same thing goes for Mattingly or anyone else and their particular styles and/or shtick.

Some people might say they good manger is the guy who adjusts to his personnel. But that guy doesn't really exist. Baseball is an American game and a traditional game and American management style is traditionally top down. It's the players that are expected to conform to the rules laid out by a manager. And a guy who tries another way will eventually, if not immediately, be seen as weak.

I've never managed a game in my life, but if I can send Kershaw and Greinke out every five days, my team is gonna win a bunch of ballgames.

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Here's an example of bad managing... and I've said this several time on the board...
The bartman game.
Dusty literally sat there watching it all fall apart. Did noting while alou had his temper tantrum. Ok. Then... does nothing when Gonzalez boots the ball. This is where he should have come out. Had a meeting on the mound. Chilled everyone out. His team was losing it. Probably should have made a pitching change. But he did nothing.
I think that inning was terrible managing. and it cost them the series.

There's no statistic for that. I know that. But that's not good management.

However he is the league leader in chewing a toothpick while watching his team shit itself.

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Airing of the grievances next year at Lakemoor Fest.

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