Well, after sleeping on it

[thatsbaseball]

I am way more pissed this AM than I was last night. I am so 17ing tired of turning morons into millionaires by making them "head coaches" at MState. I have absolutely no need to hear the "well we had a great season" line that losers so love to roll out. Last night was a "winning time" and our "head coach" chocked big time. I`m sure some of you will fire off some "far Koenz" ******** posts to make yourselves look cute or feel better today and during the next few days and that`s cool. But God dammit there aren`t many excuses for the 17ing multiple bone headed moves he made last night and the repercussions of **** like that are far bigger than message board rants by peons like myself. This post isn`t about firing anybody but damn just damn. Sorry for the rant....fire away.

 

[msstate7]

I understand there being outrage over pulling rooker, but the pitching moves baffled me...

In the 8th, first 2 hitters reach with 2 lh hitters coming up. No way rigby should be left in with brown and pilk available.

Hump has an era over 5.50 bc of his multiple inning stints. He's been very good for 1 inning and that's it. I can see letting him start the 9th, but no way you don't go smith after leadoff double.

Smith was great; but after 2 reached and facing guy for 2nd time, you go Houston against the rh hitter.

 

[BossDawg78]

I'm still pissed, too, but I think AZ was just the better team.

 

[Dawg1976]

Agree. No excuse for losing that game. Cohen does a good job of recruiting, but not a top tier manager of the game. Average at best. But as they say......it is what it is.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Have you seen any post game Cohen comments yet? I hope he was questioned.

I am really curious to hear his thought processes.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

That stupid *** turtle neck and jacket in 90 plus degree heat affected his brain hole.

 

[121Josey]

I'm still pissed, too, but I think AZ was just the better coached team.

FIFY

 

[missouridawg]

FIFY

You guys do realize that Arizona pinch ran for one of their better hitters last night.... And that pinch runner came up to hit for them in extras right? It was the same bone headed move you're cussing Cohen out for. Except AZ struck out Mike Smith and we walked their pinch runner.

The players lost last night. Rigby serving up watermelons. Collins only gets one run home with two bases loaded at-bats. Robson not reading that bloop pop up.

Even in the 9th, Hump made good enough pitches to get out of the inning. Their bloops just found holes.

The only two things I wished I would've seen were leaving Rooker in and bringing in Houston in the 11th. But neither of those things would've mattered if Rigby does his job. And Rigby was our best reliever this year. So there is NO ONE that you'd rather see in that scenario than him.

 

[121Josey]

You guys do realize that Arizona pinch ran for one of their better hitters last night.... And that pinch runner came up to hit for them in extras right? It was the same bone headed move you're cussing Cohen out for. Except AZ struck out Mike Smith and we walked their pinch runner.

The players lost last night. Rigby serving up watermelons. Collins only gets one run home with two bases loaded at-bats. Robson not reading that bloop pop up. Even in the 9th, Hump made good enough pitches to get out of the inning. Their bloops just found holes.

The only two things I wished I would've seen were leaving Rooker in and bringing in Houston in the 11th. But neither of those things would've mattered if Rigby does his job. And Rigby was our best reliever this year. So there is NO ONE that you'd rather see in that scenario than him.

What? UAZ pinch ran for a hitter late in the game? Was that a boneheaded play? Many thought that Cohen should have pinch-ran for Lowe in the 8th inning while LOSING. A pinch runner would have beaten out that throw to 2B.

Do you know what an "enabler" is? That's what Cohen is if he allows Rigby to serve up watermelons with the season on the line and 10+ fresh arms in the bullpen to get 6 outs.

 

[kired]

I'd say 9 hits in 20 innings by all the guys not named Rooker had more to do with losing this super than anything our head coach did. I don't know how many AB's the rest of the team had, but the batting average had to be below .150

 

[thatsbaseball]

so to correct this you pull Rooker with the game on the line ?

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

You guys do realize that Arizona pinch ran for one of their better hitters last night.... And that pinch runner came up to hit for them in extras right? It was the same

bone headed move you're cussing Cohen out for. Except AZ struck out Mike Smith and we walked their pinch runner.

The players lost last night. Rigby serving up watermelons. Collins only gets one run home with two bases loaded at-bats. Robson not reading that bloop pop up.

Even in the 9th, Hump made good enough pitches to get out of the inning. Their bloops just found holes.

The only two things I wished I would've seen were leaving Rooker in and bringing in Houston in the 11th. But neither of those things would've mattered if Rigby does his job. And Rigby was our best reliever this year. So there is NO ONE that you'd rather see in that scenario than him.

Thanks for typing this out and saving me the time. You're still going to get bitched out. When my son got home from work and I told him we had a 5-1 lead in the eighth and proceeded to lose the game and he was flabbergasted.

Our strength was our weakness in this game.

Yeah, we DID leave too many on base and did NOT make those 2 out hits we had all season in both games, but you SHOULD be able to get 6 outs with a 4 run lead to win the game.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

You can be pissed and throw a tantrum all you want but Zona's best beat our best this weekend. Period. It had nothing to do with being out coached or Cohen making the wrong moves as so many love to imply.

 

[coach66]

Yep, we just got beat. Both teams good, things worked out for them.

Nm

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I think it would be less nerve wracking had the games been swapped. Had we screwed up like we did last night in game 1 and just got outplayed in game 2 it would be easier to live with

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Nobody mentioned our ineptitude at the plate. Mangum was awful. Lowe hit weak ground balls. Kruger was ok but subpar. Robson just tried to get a ball in play and beat it out. People get on collinsbut the guy was mere feet away from 2 grand slams. Hell this weekend i felt like gridley and holland had the better at bats. And when you can say that, its usually in loss.
I hate we arent going to omaha. I was sooo ready to fightmy wife over whos half of the $ i was blowing to go watch us win a title. Yes it was a goid season. But i felt like this was the most complete team we had tp win it all.

 

[KurtRambis4]

That was my biggest

issue w last night, the Reid move. He's proven over and over, throughout the season, that he struggles when given multiple innings.

That at at bringing Danny in too late.

 

[The Peeper]

mere feet away from 2 grand slams.

Translation = 2 fly outs or 2 of 27 of the outs made in the game. Not a slam on you gymdawg, I just had a coach for several years that always harped on that, if it was caught it was just another out. And if it did go out he was quick to point out that if you went 2 for 4 and either hit 2 home runs or 2 singles you still batted .500 on the day. He was kind of an *** in retrospect but a great teacher of fundamentals. He loved "small ball" and Whitey Herzog

 

[bully12]

I am way more pissed this AM than I was last night. I am so 17ing tired of turning morons into millionaires by making them "head coaches" at MState. I have absolutely no need to hear the "well we had a great season" line that losers so love to roll out. Last night was a "winning time" and our "head coach" chocked big time. I`m sure some of you will fire off some "far Koenz" ******** posts to make yourselves look cute or feel better today and during the next few days and that`s cool. But God dammit there aren`t many excuses for the 17ing multiple bone headed moves he made last night and the repercussions of **** like that are far bigger than message board rants by peons like myself. This post isn`t about firing anybody but damn just damn. Sorry for the rant....fire away.

I think your rant would have been just as effective without the "GD" . . . . . . .

 

[lasher8]

I don't.

I think your rant would have been just as effective without the "GD" . . . . . . .

 

[the dog is on the loose]

Using God's name in vain is NEVER good on a post about a freaking ballgame.