12-11-2022, 08:18 PM
(10-21-2022, 06:18 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: To be honest, you or I could manage this Astros team to the playoffs year after year. I only hated his use of the bullpen when he was here. Rose was bad with the pitching staff, even admitted that it was a challenge, but Dusty's use of the bullpen and the starters left many people going "huh?" or "Why would you bring THIS guy in for THIS situation?" I didn't have too much of a problem with anything else while he was here.
I hate Bell, much, much more than I ever hated Dusty. The only reason Bell didn't suck as much as a manager this year is because of the DH rule taking away his "need" to use the double switch so much. It drove me nuts as he would take out two starters from the field in double switches before the 8th inning in almost every single game. So you would wind up with two starters getting two to three plate appearances and two bench players getting one to three plate appearances. Game after game of this, your regulars don't get enough plate appearances to be at the top of their game so you wind up with a roster of bench players. It's just that some, the 'starters', play a little more than the others and mostly play at different times of the game and the true bench players wind up playing the important last few innings of the game.
But all of this bitching means nothing. I watched almost every game of this pathetic season. I missed a few while on a fishing trip and watched most of the ones I missed while I was gone but found out the scores of the other games(both were losses) so I just skipped them. The reality is that no matter what idiot they put in charge of this team, I'll still be rooting them on until the day I die.
The Reds will be back and I promise you that!
I'll be getting my season tickets for the first time this offseason. This will be title town in two years in both sports.
