Agreed. However, too late.

He seems like a douche.

Nothing incorrect, but also nothing new. The Congressional Management Foundation has published actual studies on this that go well beyond the author’s anecdotal account.

This guy definitely needed another profile. Well done.  

It was a joke.

My goodness, it was a joke.

Ah, good point. Also, jokes aren’t supposed to taken literally Mr. Science.

I’ve seen it, but it was St Patrick’s Day.

Water is already blue, you fucking morons.

The red sox do not compete for championships year after year. Before losing the first round in three games this year, they had finished dead last in the AL East in 2015 and 2014.

As are most professional athletes. One would imagine, at least.

Its because sports writers are lazy people who rely on racist tropes. Latinos are glitzy showmen, African Americans exhibit pure athleticism, and white guys are hard workers.

I understand it was flippant, which makes it unsuitable for the conclusion of the article about effective bullpen management, in my mind.

And why was that? It was because he didn’t have a lead. Francona says get a lead and use your dominant relievers. I’m just saying that by this metric Showlater’s bullpen strategy failed because his team didn’t score enough runs. In reality, it failed because he stubbornly adhered to a general strategy and didn’t…

Showalter wanted a lead before using his dominant reliever. He never got it, so he got shit on. Francona is essentially saying the same thing that Showalter was doing, but in his case its worked. The strategy is only as effective as its outcome I guess.

“Get the lead and let them face the dominant relievers. It’s really not rocket science.” This is what Showlater was doing, but he lost so it was deemed a terrible strategy. Francona is winning so its a winning strategy.

Poor managing has set-the bar so low for what we consider effective managing. You just wrote an entire column congratulating a manager for using his best pitcher as much as possible to win an elimination game. Stop it. Aroldis Chapman was amazing. Joe Maddon was just not an idiot for 45 minutes out of the day.

For a moment, when watching a drawn out piece on the misfortunes of these two franchises, I thought to myself, “didn’t the Indians win somewhere in the 2000's.” I let the thought drift, but then realized a day later I was thinking of the White Sox. I’m guessing that happened to more than a few of us.

You know what I hate? That dumb baseball code that dumb fair/foul code. Stupid code. Let’s get rid of that along with the balk code.

So the Yankees farm system goes from mid-low to one of the best and all Boston gets for contending is three extra games. DEAL.