I’m not alone. Who here didn’t call the Frankie meltdown before it happened? So frustrating.

He seemed to be effective.

Frankie had a really good inning, threw 14 of 18 piches for strikes, but it was kind of a waste in a 6 run game. That would have been the perfect time to get Benoit an inning.

But still, I don’t know if you can blame Frankie’s outing on working two days straight. He just didn’t have it today, not much you can do about that.

Eddie

but not because he pitched last night. because he sucks when starting innings off and can’t be trusted in close games.

guardado pitched 2 days in a row, he could use a break.

tejeda can’t be used in that kind of high leverage situation.

benoit seemed like the obvious choice to me if you weren’t going to leave wright in. wash gets in trouble with these edicts he makes about certain roles. apparently since benoit has been demoted in favor of guardado, all of a sudden he can’t be used in the 8th because that’s no longer his “role”. of course it’s not frankie’s role either. if you want to put guardado over benoit in the pecking order all things being equal, then fine, that makes sense. but it doesn’t make sense to banish benoit if guardado isn’t available.

last night, frankie started warming up when the game became a 4 run game (otherwise, CJ had started the inning). Since murphy made it 4 so quickly, Frankie had enough time to start warming up. but, they couldn’t stop him once the game got out of hand. So, he had to come in during a 6 run game. There wasn’t enough time to get a tejeda up at that point. Would you have wanted Tejeda up in a 4 run game? Immediately have to go to CJ when Tejeda got into trouble? How long would you have left him in? Same goes for Benoit.

With that over, today, you’re saying Wash should have gone to Benoit today? Really? in a one run game? Pretty sure the complaining would have been a lot louder for that than bradley pinch hitting.

people don’t even think about the second guesses. they’re just happy with themselves that they can identify plausible alternatives and immediately suspect that there way has to be right since Wash’s way ended with a loss.

once a guy gets up, he is coming into the game. Maybe warming up Jack B in a 6 run game could be an option. The guy needs a confidence boost, lower pressure situation.

as Murphy goes yard the 2nd time I start thinking about JB. Again, that is just assuming that Frankie is now going to take a more prominent role (7th) inning. Why waste him? I guess it doesn’t matter, I had a problem with it last night based on the fact that the game was semi in control, and we might need Frankie in the as a set up man today since Eddie would be unavailable, and since he has flat out said he wouldn’t be using JB in the 8th.

Not second guessing it, I had a problem with it last night also. Doesn’t matter they are just an average team and this is what average teams do. Just hate to see another one get away.

got DFA’d, maybe we can add him and his gas can to our BP.

I thought people would be happy with seeing more Fx2 and less Jack since everybody here was bitching about that when Jack was struggling. So last night he used Fx2 to close the game out when it wasn’t a save situation instead of using BGL (because most here would have bitched about him coming into a game with a 6 run lead). Then he rewards Fx2 for his good outings lately and demotes Jack for struggling (which is a good move). Result – LSBers still complaining about Wash. What a shocking development. This team is at .500 with a very bad overall pitching staff right now and some people are still complaining.

Fx2 is like many pitchers on this team, inconsistent. Usually he is good but he can choke at times. Just like Jack, Wright, Eddie G, and every other reliever on this team. Sometimes the hitter just gets the best of the pitcher. Deal with it, and stop blaming everyfuckingthing on the manager. The players play the game. The players win the game. The players lose the game.

OT: Speaking of players winning games…....holy shit am I hyped up right now. I can’t believe the Celtics came back and won tonight. Just like the Lakers in game 2 but they completed the comeback. Almost everyone in the media said the Lakers would win this series and have been swing all over Kobe’s sack. Pierce played him like a BEAST today. Damn I’m so happy right now. 1 more game, can you smell it Miles, I sure can. One of my teams is finally going to win a fucking TITLE!