Marmot worthless when it counts

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Melville
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Marmot worthless when it counts

Post by Melville »

July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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what was Marmol's batting average and pitching ERA over that bad section. Oh, sorry, I forgot he was not on the field and that it was the players who failed to perform. This has been beat to death. Managers with good players win, managers with bad players lose.
Clubmaker2
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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and he is the manager for coaching young players, yet so many cant bunt and suck at running the bases....
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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bretto12 wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:27 am what was Marmol's batting average and pitching ERA over that bad section. Oh, sorry, I forgot he was not on the field and that it was the players who failed to perform. This has been beat to death. Managers with good players win, managers with bad players lose.
So, you believe that the manager is a useless and meaningless position and should be done away with?
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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Bow wow
woof woof

Start a Gorman thread why don't you
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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Melville wrote: 17 Sep 2025 08:36 am July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
but ... not as worthless as ME ville
Cusecards
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

Post by Cusecards »

dugoutrex wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:49 am
Melville wrote: 17 Sep 2025 08:36 am July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
but ... not as worthless as ME ville
+1
Although....he does provide us with a lot of cute nicknames for the players/coaches.
I wonder if he has cute nicknames for all his trainees in his “highly educated” role.
dugoutrex
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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Cusecards wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:52 am
dugoutrex wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:49 am
Melville wrote: 17 Sep 2025 08:36 am July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
but ... not as worthless as ME ville
+1
Although....he does provide us with a lot of cute nicknames for the players/coaches.
I wonder if he has cute nicknames for all his trainees in his “highly educated” role.
lol - he works at Jimmy Johns
Cusecards
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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dugoutrex wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:53 am
Cusecards wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:52 am
dugoutrex wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:49 am
Melville wrote: 17 Sep 2025 08:36 am July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
but ... not as worthless as ME ville
+1
Although....he does provide us with a lot of cute nicknames for the players/coaches.
I wonder if he has cute nicknames for all his trainees in his “highly educated” role.
lol - he works at Jimmy Johns
Janitorial or French Fries??
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

Post by rockondlouie »

You could've stopped right here Mel:

"Marmot worthless"
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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Melville wrote: 17 Sep 2025 08:36 am July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
Not your best effort.
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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Amusing…

Some just cannot….absolutely cannot….bring themselves to blame the krappy players that litter the roster…
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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bretto12 wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:27 am what was Marmol's batting average and pitching ERA over that bad section. Oh, sorry, I forgot he was not on the field and that it was the players who failed to perform. This has been beat to death. Managers with good players win, managers with bad players lose.
Also bad managers lose.
riff raff
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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dugoutrex wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:53 am
Cusecards wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:52 am
dugoutrex wrote: 17 Sep 2025 09:49 am
Melville wrote: 17 Sep 2025 08:36 am July 1
STL 47-40
SD 45-39
SF 45-41
CIN 44-42
AZ 43-42

Sept 16
SD 82-69
AZ 77-75
CIN 75-76
SF 75-76
STL 74-78

Last 10 weeks:
STL -11
SD +7
SF-5
CIN -1
AZ +1

Marmol is the master at winning meaningless games - and is a complete disaster at winning games when it matters. Even when he has a huge initial advantage and the competition is doing their very best to make it easy for him. There are many, many reasons to fire The Marmot - but none more obvious than the numbers above. He is a lightweight not up to the job when it matters.
but ... not as worthless as ME ville
+1
Although....he does provide us with a lot of cute nicknames for the players/coaches.
I wonder if he has cute nicknames for all his trainees in his “highly educated” role.
lol - he works at Jimmy Johns
That's probably a pretty good guess. Shift leader. Training sandwich makers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Last edited by riff raff on 17 Sep 2025 10:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
hullie
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

Post by hullie »

You can tell when Gorman started playing third
Cusecards
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Re: Marmot worthless when it counts

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The players clearly bear the brunt of the responsibility.
But...you can’t ignore that there are issues with decision making and that team fundamentals are below average.
I consider Marmol below average. Worth looking at along with players.
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