07-29-2009, 10:56 AM
<!--quoteo(post=53046:date=Jul 29 2009, 09:50 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Jul 29 2009, 09:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Let me address several points here.
- When several choices are placed before you and you willingly choose the least (or less) desirable or least (or less) effective option, you're either stupid, insane, or retarded. I don't know how you can get around that fact. It's like looking at two stacks of bills and you can pick either one. One stack is a million dollars. The other stack is half a million. Now...half a million dollars is still pretty fucking sweet and I'd love to have it. But if I don't choose the million dollars, then I must be retarded. In this object lesson, sending Fox to the plate is the stack of a million dollars. Sending Fontenot to the plate and letting him swing away is half a million dollars. Sending Fontenot to the plate and asking him to execute a squeeze play is deciding to skip the stacks of bills and go digging in the couch cushions instead, hoping to find a million dollars worth of coins.
- BT? Relief pitchers are called on to bunt and nobody bats an eye because, with very few exceptions, they can't hit worth a damn. How many pitchers could you count on to hit a medium-to-deep fly ball?
- Asking Fontenot to bunt, in a vacuum, isn't necessarily insane. But <i>in that situation, with all of the other options Lou could have picked instead (including using Fox),</i> it was.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
then when the fuck is the suicide ever a wise option?
- When several choices are placed before you and you willingly choose the least (or less) desirable or least (or less) effective option, you're either stupid, insane, or retarded. I don't know how you can get around that fact. It's like looking at two stacks of bills and you can pick either one. One stack is a million dollars. The other stack is half a million. Now...half a million dollars is still pretty fucking sweet and I'd love to have it. But if I don't choose the million dollars, then I must be retarded. In this object lesson, sending Fox to the plate is the stack of a million dollars. Sending Fontenot to the plate and letting him swing away is half a million dollars. Sending Fontenot to the plate and asking him to execute a squeeze play is deciding to skip the stacks of bills and go digging in the couch cushions instead, hoping to find a million dollars worth of coins.
- BT? Relief pitchers are called on to bunt and nobody bats an eye because, with very few exceptions, they can't hit worth a damn. How many pitchers could you count on to hit a medium-to-deep fly ball?
- Asking Fontenot to bunt, in a vacuum, isn't necessarily insane. But <i>in that situation, with all of the other options Lou could have picked instead (including using Fox),</i> it was.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
then when the fuck is the suicide ever a wise option?
Wang.