04-24-2009, 04:46 PM
<!--quoteo(post=32872:date=Apr 24 2009, 03:34 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Apr 24 2009, 03:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Let me just add...
If Marmol shut the D-Backs down and the Cubs went on to score 10 runs the next half-inning, it still would've been a bad move. None of us would be talking about it, because we would've won the game. Good results from a bad decision doesn't turn the decision into a good one.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And that is exactly my point. The fact that Marmol let up runs doesn't make it a bad move either. It was a decision you didn't agree with Butch. Taking out a starter after 6 innings to put in your best pitcher in a tie game is NOT a bad decision, no matter how much you guys disagree with it. It might not be the decision you would have made, but that doesn't make it bad. Taking Zambrano out, and putting in virtually any other pitcher would have been a bad move. Putting Marmol in, and keeping Zambrano fresh, is again, COMPLETELY justifiable.
If Marmol shut the D-Backs down and the Cubs went on to score 10 runs the next half-inning, it still would've been a bad move. None of us would be talking about it, because we would've won the game. Good results from a bad decision doesn't turn the decision into a good one.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And that is exactly my point. The fact that Marmol let up runs doesn't make it a bad move either. It was a decision you didn't agree with Butch. Taking out a starter after 6 innings to put in your best pitcher in a tie game is NOT a bad decision, no matter how much you guys disagree with it. It might not be the decision you would have made, but that doesn't make it bad. Taking Zambrano out, and putting in virtually any other pitcher would have been a bad move. Putting Marmol in, and keeping Zambrano fresh, is again, COMPLETELY justifiable.
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