Originally Posted by
Just1More
_ Wow!... Homer here... this and another thread sure have some infighting over baseball... totally understandable... criticism is warranted... including Coach Robe. But, I cannot, based on my body of work in baseball, compared to Robe's body of work, necessarily call him out on what is happening. The "small ball" argument is kind of lame. It is not about abandoning one for the other. Robe would swing for the fences if he thought the team was seeing the ball well and jumping on pitches. He has been using small ball as a fire starter. Nothing is working. He can't seem to count on anything right now.
It doesn't seem to make sense to stick with small ball when your pitching staff is getting clobbered, but it also makes no sense to have guys swinging away when they haven't proved they can. Small ball gets in the head of the other team, adds errors and other factors into the equation, and once you get that going, your options broaden. I am not saying that it has worked, should work, will work... but Robe is not an idiot and is using everything he can think of to turn this deal around. Sometimes you are hitting on all cylinders, sometimes you are only having to work on a single fouled plug... and sometimes, even for Robe, your engine has froze up. If anyone can get these guys turned around, it will be Coach Robe. Homer out... literally. _