Friday, April 26, 2013
Who owns the lineup card?
I don't know how many times I've watched Moneyball. At least three times start-to-finish, and another dozen times in snippets. There are so many fantastic vignettes in there, that it makes it very easy to just jump right in, while surfing channels.
One of our favorite lines is the one that ends with Jonah Hill responding: ?"Are those my only two choices?" And we love the "It's incredibly hard" bit. Anyway, when Pitt responds to Hoffman's "lineup card is mine" by trading away all his players ("I can do this all day"), it shows the limits to who owns the lineup card ("I didn't build this roster for you".... "No shit"... another great one).
So, I don't know how to react to this news out of Miami (besides the bias I have as an Expos fan). I remember last year, they started Strasburg on regular rotation (when they could have done the right thing and delayed his starts), and then, out of the blue, an inning or two in, GOD HIMSELF told Rizzo to not pitch Strasburg by causing a rain delay. Rizzo went onto the field after it stopped raining to inspect the mound. Clearly, he was very very concerned for Strasburg. It's clear that Davey Johnson can't just do whatever he wants ("lineup card is mine"?), that there are limits.
But, what do the players think, how do they respond to a scenario where the manager disagrees and is ultimately overruled, and what do the fans think?
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