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Pete goes fishing for a curve for out #2

Marte pushes a bit over .300 with a shot up the middle.

Is there a good answer to "Why did you do X instead of Y?" questions? I think there is, but managers usually take it as an invitation to be dicks.

I get why managers are often dicks to the working press, though I don't approve of it, perhaps only when they want to keep things secret or avoid hurting players' feelings, but generally I think it's their fucking jobs to give good interviews. What they seem to hate is being second-guessed, but guess what? That's also a part, a big part, of their jobs. A question like "Why did you pinch hit for X with Y in the Zth inning?" is perfectly legitimate, but they all have a way of making it seem like a bastard question, one that the reporter is overstepping decorum to pose, and it pisses me off when they evade it, mock it, berate the reporter for asking it etc. Usually the right answer is some form of, "I rolled the dice on that one, and it didn't work out like I wanted it to" but that would be taking the hit for a (sometimes stupid) move. More specifically, an answer might be "I wanted the opposing manager to go to his bullpen, so I gambled that putting in a righty for a lefty batter might do the trick at that point" or something of that sort, but managers often bristle and give the reporter some snide shit for asking a legit question, often the very question that we're batting about on this forum. Pisses me off, what can I say?

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Diaz got Judge by pitching him high and tight last night.

"Buck, why did you go with Lugo rather than Diaz in the ninth?" "Because I'm smart and you're dumb, that's why."

"Buck, what were you thinking in sending Peterson out there?" "How do you know that I was thinking anything? You can't possibly fathom the workings of my mind. Don't even try to, okay? You're not equipped for the task."

On Nido's double, he bent over to dust himself off, and I noticed that his name upside down spells out ODIN. Has this been noted already?

I was sure "FC" stood for "Fucking Cheapskate."

I think we need a whole new thread on "managerial evasions to the press."

Buck never gives the straightforward answer the questioner craves. There's inevitably an undercurrent of “it's deeper than you think...” I dig that about him. I definitely don't. There's a certain degree of "I've forgotten more than you could ever know" arrogance to it, and it leads to blander news stories. Doesn't serve me well at all.

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Does Costas speak more vapid bullshit than anyone this side of Tucker Carlson? "Is it possible the Mets and Yankees could meet in this year's World Series? Is it possible?"

Pretty intimidating right back.

Pretty intimidating top of the first.

Sorry, going on two-day old memories here.

Well, asking Buck "Did you think about pinchhitting McNeil for Nido?" is just a polite way of asking "Why did you decide not to pinch hit McNeil for Nido?" because everyone knows that, if Buck is operating with more than five brain cells of course he thought about it, and rejected it. But Buck superciliously chose to take the polite form literally and answered him about all the things he thinks about in the course of a game are far too many for him to explain all of his complex thoughts and blablabla. That's what I consider obnoxious. Even the ruder form of the question is legit, and Buck was choosing to imply that he was SOOOOO much smarter than the reporter (which he may be, and may not be) that he can't answer the literal question he was asked.

Nah, a "No comment" establishes "Not answering that one" just fine. Buck added some extra pepper in his tone, and in his specific comments, which included (going on memory here) "You (plural?) don't understand all the complicated thoughts that go through my head in every inning of every game, so I can't comment on the one specific thought you're asking about." which came off to me at least as patronizing and unnecessarily hostile. All the reporter asked was something like "Did you think about pinchhitting McNeil for Nido?" which didn't strike me as at all obnoxious or deserving of that sort of dismissive answer. Seemed fair enough to me.

Buck seemed unusually defensive and hostile when asked why he didn't pinch-hit McNeil for Nido. Any time a manager gives reporters "That's a stupid amateur question, and you're dumb for asking it of me, one of the smartest professionals in the business ever" answers, I start thinking "Hmmm, maybe the reporter struck a nerve."

Just on nicknames, Fisher was known as "Fat Jack," and Hal Reniff was nicknamed "Porky." Th-th-th-that's all, folks.

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Done deal or speculation?

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