Grady Little

[PissedPrincess]

There was an interesting discussion on Sports radio last night about Grady Little. The general consensus is that he blew a lot of games last year.

A couple of examples. The Sox were up 11-1 in the 6th inning. Grady uses Embree and Howry in the last 4 innings. The next night, we were up by 3 runs in the 8th. Having spent Embree and Howry the night before, he threw Castillo out there, who promptly gave up 5 runs and we lost.

People seem to think we have the firepower to come from behind a lot. What we can't have, is moves like last year, where we're down by 3 in the 7th, and Grady decides to rest Nomah and Manny. The scrubs get on base, start rallies, and instead of Manny coming up, you have Rickey Henderson.:angry:

He did that crap a lot. Gave up too early. Hope he improves.

Thoughts?

[I Are Baboon]

Well I said this last year and I'll say it again: Rookies make mistakes, but they learn and they improve. Last year, Grady was a rookie manager. I only hope he learns from his mistakes and does a better job this year. No doubt he did some real bonehead things last year.

[rockin500]

grady is a bonehead and needs to unbonehead himself. and learn to manage better. when up 11-1, you throw castillo out there, not embree and howry.

you give guys rests when you have a 8 run deficit (or lead), not a 3 run deficit. jiminy crowe! even i can manage better than that!

[PissedPrincess]

Okay. Let's hope he did learn.

Btw, here's his opening day line-up.

Damon
Walker
Nomah
Manny
Millar
Shea
Ortiz
Trot
Tek

1-7 looks pretty good.