Why let Cairo prance around the bags at will?

[Guest old original jb]

While this was nothing compared to letting Wagner continue to pitch when it was clear he couldn't hit the strike zone, I was left wondering why it seemed that no effort was made to hold Cairo on to first or second base.

I'm posing this as a managerial issue because it would seem to me that in a tight game the battery would get instructions from the dugout on how to handle things.

It almost felt like "hey let's just pitch and get this over with--let's take our medicine and go home."

Did some of the players have opera tickets or an early curtain or something?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I was wondering that myself as I watched Miguel Freakin' Cairo running around the bases virtually unchalleged. Poor defense by the Mets.

[nymr83]

]was left wondering why it seemed that no effort was made to hold Cairo on to first or second base.

Jorge Julio SUX at holding runners on, its just part of the package you get with him and not really something we didnt (or shouldnt have) know about before hand.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Well, we're going to have to teach Julio to hold runners on that. It was embarassing to watch and fucking cost us the game.

No way does Cairo score from 1st base on that bitch-ass single.

[Guest old original jb]

Really, it's not like Cairo is the equivalent of Vincent Coleman in his pre-firecracker and bleach days.

And to think how people complained about teams "running on Piazza".

[Guest GYC]

Rose said on radio that Castro may have been playing conservatively, afraid of throwing the ball away and letting Cairo score. Ignorant, if you ask me.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

old original jb wrote: And to think how people complained about teams "running on Piazza".

Give him Julio pitching and Piazza catching, and Ivan James Dickshot could lead the NL in SB this season (even given his late start).

[nymr83]

Castro had NO SHOT at Cairo at either 2nd or 3rd, his jump off of Julio was just obscene.