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Originally Posted by Green & Gold Heart
Well it wasn't Ken Macha's fault that Eric Chavez and Bobby Crosby both looked like **** last night.
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Well, Macha *did* put Chavez in the lineup... and even if Chavez had "talked him into it," I still call BS. The manager's JOB is to write the lineup. He is IN CHARGE of the players, and needs to tell them when they are or aren't playing. This pisses me off to no end when you always hear that Macha doesn't want to sit Kendall because he'll get upset. SO WHAT! If you want to play, how about getting your OPS out of the mid .600s, OK guy? Seriously, it makes me sick that Kendall "refuses" to be taken out of the lineup. I'm pretty sure he's not sitting there with a knife to Macha's throat while the lineup cards is being filled out.
However, it was clearly Macha's fault that Sarloos was left in to pitch a second inning, especially when the 7th SHOULD be Calero/Duke territory. Calero didn't even START to warm up until Sarloos was giving up the (eventual) game winning runs. That's awesome.
Calero should have been warming up as the inning was getting underway. The first two batters Sarloos faced hit absolute lasers off him. One of them happened to be directly at Chavez, though, so Macha must have thought "Hey, Loos is crusing! One pitch out! You go Kirk!"
Either that, or he was halfway asleep and in a Juicyfruit-induced coma.