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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, November 26, 2007The Griddle: Book Review: ‘I Live for This!’ by Bill Plaschke with Tommy LasordaCrank up the HEPA air purification system...as Bob T. checks out the Lasorda-Plaschke book.
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Posted: November 26, 2007 at 06:31 AM | 16 comment(s)
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So in other words, the quoted passage is nothing more than a "PAP smear"?
*rimshot*
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all day, unless I get called into a meeting.
*rimshot*
Thangu vurrry much.
Maybe, but are any of us here smarter than Mr. Peabody?
Sure, man.
Yeah, jmac66 is. He hobnobs with Carter Burwell.
Sure, man.
Quiet, you!
Just 10? No way, there are 15 in my neighborhood alone smarter than he is.
From the review:
Plaschke doesn’t press Lasorda too much on his three most prominent managerial failures: the 1980 tiebreaker playoff loss to Houston, the loss to the Giants on the last day of the 1982 season that gave the Braves the division, and the decision to have Tom Niedenfuer pitch to Jack Clark in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 1985 NLCS.
I should dig out my 1986 Baseball Abstract, but didn't conventional wisdom suggest that he walk Clark while it was pitching to him was the right thing to do gametheorywise? First base was open, but the walk reduced the Dodgers chances of winning from @ 79% to 76%. Sure, Clark was a better hitter at the time but Van Slyke was a lefty. One thing that I couldn't find was whether or not Niedenfuer was a flyball pitcher. If he was, that makes it an even better decision to face Clark.
Chevy Chase as Fletch
Lasorda at the 2001 All Star Game
Some deep thoughts from Lasorda (NSFW)
Correct. Walking Jack to face a guy with the bases loaded AND the platoon advantage would have been the worse move. And against righties that season Andy hit .281/.360/.481 which back then was more impressive than it is now.
LaSorda did the right thing picking the lesser of two evils. 'Cause I understand folks looking at Jack Clark circa 1985 and thinking twice. The guy had a well-deserved rep for being a late game monster. Van Slyke was just a skinny kid.
Plaschke's a favorite over at FJM
How is he a Houkian?
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