GDT : Cards vs. Braves (7/11) ~ 7:15pm CDT

[Ozziesfan41]

Why does Oliver sit on his hands when it's obvious his pitcher doesn't have it?

Because he's a [fork]ing dumb[ash]. Get this (bleep) out of StL.

The Oli obsession is so weird.

All of you like to rant about how every Cards manager overuses his bullpen, but my god, you guys would pull every single pitcher immediately at any sign of trouble and completely burn out your bullpen in the first month of the season.

You can't pull a starter in the 3rd inning unless he's giving up double digit runs. You will burn out your entire bullpen for the remainder of the series trying to cover 8 innings in 1 game.

Double digits runs in 3 innings? Wow, you'd suck even worse than marmol.

No kidding if you give up double digits in 3 might as well leave them in at that point. I think it depends on the moves depends on the braves pitcher if he was pitching had good stuff maybe you leave him in there and try to get another inning or two out of him. But the braves pitcher was very obviously in trouble I even said it in the game thread before cards came back the good news is their pitcher doesn’t have it and the cards could throw some runs up on him. Oli should have managed That game to win early seeing their pitcher was vulnerable

I agree. But oli only follows his script. There is no varying from the pregame plans.

He did not manage to win tonight. He managed to save the bullpen for some reason when we're two days removed from the All-Star break.

Exactly. One of the cards managers tried to say Oli doesn’t trust fedde so was saving bullpen for that game but that makes zero sense. Fedde might have a game like MM did his last start or the braves starter could come out dealing and it doesn’t matter. It was very obvious the braves starter was going to get lit up it was just a matter of time so he should have had a quick hook in this game

[JuanAgosto]

Why does Oliver sit on his hands when it's obvious his pitcher doesn't have it?

Because he's a [fork]ing dumb[ash]. Get this (bleep) out of StL.

The Oli obsession is so weird.

All of you like to rant about how every Cards manager overuses his bullpen, but my god, you guys would pull every single pitcher immediately at any sign of trouble and completely burn out your bullpen in the first month of the season.

You can't pull a starter in the 3rd inning unless he's giving up double digit runs. You will burn out your entire bullpen for the remainder of the series trying to cover 8 innings in 1 game.

Double digits runs in 3 innings? Wow, you'd suck even worse than marmol.

No kidding if you give up double digits in 3 might as well leave them in at that point. I think it depends on the moves depends on the braves pitcher if he was pitching had good stuff maybe you leave him in there and try to get another inning or two out of him. But the braves pitcher was very obviously in trouble I even said it in the game thread before cards came back the good news is their pitcher doesn’t have it and the cards could throw some runs up on him. Oli should have managed That game to win early seeing their pitcher was vulnerable

I agree. But oli only follows his script. There is no varying from the pregame plans.

He did not manage to win tonight. He managed to save the bullpen for some reason when we're two days removed from the All-Star break.

Exactly. But he knows Fedde probably won't get out of the 2nd inning tomorrow. And Gray will probably be out after 5 on Sunday. That's the only thing I can figure. If that's correct, then Mo screwed him by insisting on Fedde.

[Cusecards]

Need to win that game.
BP was spectacular and gift wrapped it for the offense.
Scott can’t get picked off in that situation.
Braves are horrible especially in close games.
SMH

But Oli is worse!

He bunted the runners over with Pages which was a great move.
If he does it with Noot they tie it up and probably win.
I don’t care if Noot is hitting 5th he stinks with RISP.
In fact he stinks period.

They failed then too. Ended up stranding the bases loaded.

But it was the right move.
Pages is hitting what?
.220?????
Same for Noot.

How good is noot at bunting?

Who knows?
It’s pathetic how basic fundamentals have eroded over the last two decades.

[Rosie's Rule]

To add frustration to the Murphy HR - Horton could not get the call right on radio - called it off the wall.