Haha, just reading his "season-changing event" thing from yesterday. So Rasmus might have changed the Astros season with his grand slam on Saturday. And then hits a much more dramatic HR the very next game. But the Astros lose a tough one anyway. Guess their season wasn't turned around magically. And then Ellsbury's steal of home might have changed the Yankees season, because they won the very next day. Of course they got demolished the day after that and were out of the game by the first inning. Oh well.
What a load of nonsense he is peddling. Something happened! That might change everything! It didn't? Oh. Never mind then. But later things will change, so then we will look back at some other thing that changed everything! Because a 162-game baseball season is always changed by a single event that happens in April somehow. Because one thing happens first, so obviously that directly causes everything that happens afterward.
So he goes to Farrell with his dumb idea that the Red Sox need a big event to "inspire their confidence." Farrell is a grownup, so he basically tells Cafardo that his idea is stupid. "“Consistent pitching,” Farrell said. “That’s what we need. That will enable us to do what we want to do.”
Does that cause Cafardo to rethink his idea? Of course not. He quotes Farrell and spends a paragraph going in that direction, but then just stops and goes back to pushing the narrative he invented. There have been no extraordinary events so far, he says, then lists some big events that have happened, like Betts hitting 2 triples and Ortiz homering. They just didn't magically fix the team and cause a long winning streak, so they don't count.
Then he just blabs about of bunch of stuff that happened this year and in the past, that isn't really connected to anything, and then talks about how the Red Sox struggled in the Astros series. Which they ended up winning 2-1 on the road.
And then finishes by saying that something dramatic has to happen to inspire the team, but that Farrell getting fired wouldn't be it. Why not? Who knows, it just wouldn't. The end.
Cafardo is always trying to invent some simple-minded storyline to explain things and make everything into a morality play. It's like how little kids see the complex world when they aren't old enough to understand it.
What a load of nonsense he is peddling. Something happened! That might change everything! It didn't? Oh. Never mind then. But later things will change, so then we will look back at some other thing that changed everything! Because a 162-game baseball season is always changed by a single event that happens in April somehow. Because one thing happens first, so obviously that directly causes everything that happens afterward.
So he goes to Farrell with his dumb idea that the Red Sox need a big event to "inspire their confidence." Farrell is a grownup, so he basically tells Cafardo that his idea is stupid. "“Consistent pitching,” Farrell said. “That’s what we need. That will enable us to do what we want to do.”
Does that cause Cafardo to rethink his idea? Of course not. He quotes Farrell and spends a paragraph going in that direction, but then just stops and goes back to pushing the narrative he invented. There have been no extraordinary events so far, he says, then lists some big events that have happened, like Betts hitting 2 triples and Ortiz homering. They just didn't magically fix the team and cause a long winning streak, so they don't count.
Then he just blabs about of bunch of stuff that happened this year and in the past, that isn't really connected to anything, and then talks about how the Red Sox struggled in the Astros series. Which they ended up winning 2-1 on the road.
And then finishes by saying that something dramatic has to happen to inspire the team, but that Farrell getting fired wouldn't be it. Why not? Who knows, it just wouldn't. The end.
Cafardo is always trying to invent some simple-minded storyline to explain things and make everything into a morality play. It's like how little kids see the complex world when they aren't old enough to understand it.
