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Originally Posted by MorseMoose

Good series .

Radio said it was Swisher's idea to bunt. Macha called him a knucklehead or something like that after the game. I also heard that Dan Johnson (Minnesota boy) played pretty well today.

Actually Beane called him a knucklehead, not Macha.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...AS.TMP&type=as

"I'm glad we did'' bunt, said A's general manager Billy Beane, who has a known aversion to giving up outs. Then he added, motioning toward Swisher, "I'm glad Marco did, anyway. Knucklehead over there is second or third in the league in home runs. But we've had to scrape for every run we can, there haven't been too many opportunities. I'm not dogmatic about it, I don't remember actually sitting down and explaining to anyone that we should never bunt. There's no such thing as never.''