It's now the lead story on the Sun sports page.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-for-zach-britton-proudest-moment-in-perfect-season-was-same-one-orioles-didn-t-use-him-in-20161004-story.html
October Game Thread
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-for-zach-britton-proudest-moment-in-perfect-season-was-same-one-orioles-didn-t-use-him-in-20161004-story.html
I'm not a fan, but his decision to stick with Brach and O'Day earlier worked out brilliantly. Had he finally pulled the string with Britton it would have been an impeccably managed game. I have no idea why he choked away that last part.
Looks like 4 of those 6 appearances of 1+ IP were, in fact, save situations. But to your point, he brought Britton into a tie game on the road (at Toronto!) on July 31 and he ended up pitching the 9th and 10th innings of a game that the Orioles eventually won in 12.
He had six days rest before that one, though, and presumably Buck wanted to get him into that one no matter what.
Going with Brach and O'Day when he had Britton ready was a poor decision. The fact that it didn't cost him does not change that.
He got what he deserves and I feel warm all over as I write those words.
Because Bucky is absurdly overrated as a manager, always has been. In between managerial stints he was an analyst on TV. The media adores him (especially ESPN). He is "One of them." He is overrated. Last night people finally realised the Emperor's clothes suck.
It's about time.
Seriously. Let's not retrofit some absence of dumbfuckery onto Grady that isn't there. It was indefensibly stupid to leave Pedro in as long as he did. Nothing Buck Schowalter does in 2016 can take away how impossibly incompetent Grady Little was in 2003.
That said, MAN, THAT WAS FUCKING STUPID!!!! Like, "I still can't believe it really happened" stupid. Buck will never live that down, and I love it.
He simply gambled and lost. His confidence in his offense that they could score one run and he would get Britton in to close the deal didn't work. He could have used Britton in the 9th and 10th effectively and then if the O's offense doesn't score and the other pen arms give it up ala Jimenez, it's over. He was in a no win situation on the road.
The Giants are my second favorite team, so win tonight and beat these assholes, then shit all over the Cubs premature coronation as the 2016 WS Champions so I can see sad Maddon..............
I have a Mets fan friend who, even after the Sox winning in '04, '07 and 13, still brings up '86. Fuck the Mets, go Giants!
Isn't he leaving himself wide open for 1986 being thrown at him like we used to be for 1918? Still feels weird typing 1918.
This game tonight, the Giants have run their course with me, but I can't do Mets. So, Giants I guess.
That's a classic Mets fan for you; still bringing up 1986 and when you tell him how lucky they were to win it and how it took a miracle of epic proportions, he'll babble about how the Mets won 108 games that year and were the better team, so they should have won it.
That 1986 team was a bunch of woman chasing, pill popping boozebags, they won squat after 1986.
I think he thought he could steal a couple of outs with 9-1-2 coming up. It was a big gamble, he didn't need to take it, and he lost spectacularly.
I've seen Tito and Farrell do this in the regular season. But not in a post-season game and especially not in an elimination game.
Mets fans hate Yankees fans. Go, Mets! (Actually, I don't care, but I slightly lean Mets b/c the Giants have had three WS wins in this century, and since they aren't the Boston Red Sox, that's enough for a while.).
This has nothing to do with my post. They represent New York. They should lose
My friend from college is a huge Mets fan who will root for the Sox if it doesn't involve the Mets following the enemy of my enemy is my friend theory. According to him true Mets fans despise the Yankees so I can get behind rooting for the Mets tonight.
Btw, and I'm sure this got mentioned, but those New Era logos on the side of the caps for the playoffs are super shitty.
Trust me, no Mets fans are also Yankee fans.
Red Sox is orders of magnitude more common (enemy of my enemy etc)
I thought most MFY fans hated the Mets. (?) It might be more painful to them if the Mets won. I'm also somewhat tired of SF in the post season.
Watching ESPN. Grew up in NJ, now I can see the Giants' park from my bedroom window. Don't have a horse in this game, may the best team win.
I am pretty sure some of them are which is reason enough to dislike the entire lot.
That view is across the bay, isn't it? Is it kind of a shimmering look or is that just what it looks like on TV?
Mets, Jets and Nets is a fairly typical setup but it does vary, I assume Islanders as well but that I'm not sure of since it doesn't rhyme.