Thoughts on Terry Collins

[metirish]

About last night Terry?

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: About last night Terry?

Was Terry putting Valdespin in over Quintinilla doublespeak going against his "he's not a SS" line or was it a measure of accountability for Q? "You make an error, you don't get to play"? Of course, the infield's gonna only have David Wright on it tonight if that's the logic.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Yeah, I don't think there are enough bodies for a full-on accountability movement right now. Soon though.

Outside of strategy, I kinda like the Daddy-cares-too-much vibe he's got going right now. It makes me wonder whether he ends up pulling a "Good Will Hunting"/"It's not your fault" with Ike or Valdespin.

(Voted "Other.")

[duan]

I voted other, in that I find him pretty grating in lots of ways and there's far too much 'pep' in the way he operates and I reckon he'd drive me nuts if I had to work with him, but it seems like he's got the players on board to some degree so I'll give him a pass on it for now.
Strategically I'm not as qualified because my late inning game watching is relatively rare, one thing I do like though is the willingness to plug and play - he's had a whale load of guys shuffle through and he's kind of just got on with it and giving them chances to succeed mostly rather then opportunities to fail. I always felt Jerry Manuel in particular was almost always hoping the replacements would fail to produce so he could whine about not having better gangstas to hang with.