OT- Defend Leyland
not at all, why would you ever pinch hit a guy who is batting .140?
I dunno, for the same reason you leave in Zumaya instead of Coke: he's playing much better lately than the guy you subbed out and the lefty-righty matchup is favorable? Seriously, your managerial ideas suck.
Just admit that Leyland knows how to manage a team please.
After watching him piss away the last two weeks of last season, nothing you say will ever make me admit that. Yeah, I'm still bitter.
I think I can stop screaming in my living room now. I was just waiting for him to take a rip on 3-and-0.
Funny enough I just started screaming about the fact that the Braves pitchers mysteriously forgot how to throw a strike.
Maybe you guys should put Phil Coke in?
Dude....stop. Nothing good is going to come of this.
Wow. That was ball four. I bet it was Leyland's fault!
At least he came out to argue and defend his player... oh wait....
Just stop. You are getting close to 'neg on sight' territory here.
How does it feel to be a message board tough guy? I would imagine it feels pretty good.
In my eyes he passed that point a long time ago.
lol! congratulations on being part of the 0.5% of the population that cares what their "mgopoint total" is at.
also i'm going to need a new username anyway when denard robinson is leading us to victory after victory this year.
Good luck with the new username.
THAT WAS FUCKING DOGSHIT!!
Johnny Damon's asshole hurts after that one. Had that one been in the dirt, chalk would have flown from the batter's box.
Well that's frustrating. Gary Cederstrom just bailed Moylan out like what...not even close to the plate! That's just a turrible call.
Ha... I guess disregard this entire topic because until the MLB installs a replay system the sport is not even close to being legitimate. Second time this month the Tigers have been absolutely robbed.
First Joyce fucks Galarraga out of a perfecto, now Cederstrom fucks us out of a 9th inning.
If there was ever a place for a Carlos Zambrano blow-up, that might have been it.
Jim Joyce >> Gary Cederstrom
I agree. DFW is one of the Tiger regulars on here. He's pretty good.
Let's just let this go and we can all move on.
ATLANTA — Sitting at his locker and clearly unhappy with himself, home-plate umpire Gary Cederstrom said that when he saw the replay of his game-ending strike-three call tonight on Johnny Damon, "It didn’t look very good."
Cederstrom said he called the pitch too quickly and that, when an umpire makes a call too quickly, he "usually gets in trouble."
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said the pitch was several inches outside.
If Cederstrom had called the pitch a ball, Damon would have had the game-tying walk, and the Tigers — remarkably — would have had their fifth consecutive walk with two out in the ninth.
Instead, the called third strike from right-hander Peter Moylan on Damon allowed the Braves to escape with a 4-3 win.
"It was a sweeping pitch, going away from Damon," Cederstrom said. "It looked good coming in, then broke late.
"My timing was fast. Whenever you have fast timing as an umpire, you usually get in trouble."
Leyland was right. Damon couldn't have hit that pitch with a boat paddle.
That reeked of "Let's get this game over with" umpiring.
The people whining about Leyland remind me of those who ran Sparky Anderson out of town on a rail at the end of his career. The Tigers got rid of him and immediately went down the crapper for ten years. I had a lot of fun reminding friends who had wanted him gone that he must have been doing something right when he won so many more games with the same players than the current manager did.
If the Tigers get rid of Leyland, there is a very good chance that this team will lose a lot more games than it is now. Leyland didn't become one of seven managers in the history of the game to take teams from both the AL and the NL to the World Series by being an idiot. And he didn't suddenly become one when he took the Detroit job.