I heard somewhere Bobby Cox could take a World Series Team and get you a division title. There is a lot of truth there and he didn’t want whoever came after to be a better manager than him. So now we have Freddy Gonzalez who, in his first year of management, ruined O’Flarity and Venters using them reflexively every day out of the bull pen whether it made any sense or not. Managing baseball is very simple if you only know righty-lefty matchups.
I wish the Braves would hire Donny Baseball. Apparently in the playoffs many of the fielding setups including the “Shift” were made from the GM box and not by Mattingly. It was a Chicken move to bat Utley in the 9th inning when the Mets couldn’t afford to drill him. Next year.
“heard somewhere Bobby Cox could take a World Series Team and get you a division title”
That was Mattingly in a nutshell.
I have thought long and hard about your comment and wholeheartedly agree.
We have to strive to do better.. As a Braves team!
Better than Bobby Cox. He was good but he did not deliver championships. (1)
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I coach Pony baseball and we play 12 regular season games. I would much rather play competitively during the regular season and get a few wins to gain confidence. Wins and losses mean very little in the regular season. It is how you finish.
We stunk it up to start the season. Really got our rear-end kicked but we have won 3 of our last 4.
There are 4 games left in the season and we should win out, no biggie if we don’t.
Come November 1st - IT IS THE PLAYOFFS!
Time to take home the Championship! We can do it.
Fredi is the same as Bobby but worse on purpose!
It is nice to be good but being a winner takes a completely different mindset. Bobby never had it. He was happy being good with mediocre competition,
Dacula