Yes. I do remember you. You are the one who continues to blame what woes we had early in the season on 7 or 9 or 17 or 35 Tommy John surgeries or whatever number you choose to use to make your point.
I merely complain when we have guys it the lineup who couldn't hit a beach ball with a base fiddle. Those issues have absolutely nothing to do with pitchers with sore arms.
I think these are legitimate complaints to "discuss" on a message board.
You may be right in some of your assessments, but just like me, not ALL of them.
As you assume that I will continue to, how you say, "melt down", I suspect, if we run up in some difficult times in the near future on the baseball diamond, you will return to blaming it on the Tommy John anomaly that has dismembered a large contingent of our pitching staff.
I just simply questioned on occassion, as have others on this board, how the Head Coach struggled to recognize for nearly the first 3rd of the season that he had the afore-mentioned "batters" (can't use the term hitters) as regular mainstays in his batting order.
State has played 36 games of a 56 game regular season, and there are 4 guys who have struck out at least 35 times, 2 that have struck over 38 times, that see regular playing time.
I know Cannizaro did not have a fall practice with these guys and I wrongly judged him for the lack of hitting early on, so as you suggest, he should get a pass for that. But keeping guys in the Lineup that have obvious flaws in their approach at the plate lies squarely on the HC, whether a rookie HC or a Ron Polk.
Bad mechanics are not corrected on the playing field, they are corrected on the practice field, in the hitting tunnel, on the Tee, in the batting cage.
