Comments on: Game #126: Wait, what’s the best team in the AL again? http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/ Tampa Bay Rays Blog and News - Rays of Light Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CharlieRay http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8524 CharlieRay Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:17:07 +0000 http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/#comment-8524 You're correct on the bunt. I was screaming BUNT at the game and I can't "totaly" disagree with Maddons decision because we did'nt have our RBI men coming up but I would have bunted anyway. You’re correct on the bunt. I was screaming BUNT at the game and I can’t “totaly” disagree with Maddons decision because we did’nt have our RBI men coming up but I would have bunted anyway.

]]> By: BillG http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8523 BillG Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:04:10 +0000 http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/#comment-8523 Ruggs was not a problem decision....he has hit well enough and fielded well enough to call it a fair decision. The one run needed when Navy came to bat should have driven a bunt decision...move the runner to second and out of DP danger. Ruggs was not a problem decision….he has hit well enough and fielded well enough to call it a fair decision. The one run needed when Navy came to bat should have driven a bunt decision…move the runner to second and out of DP danger.

]]> By: CharlieRay http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8522 CharlieRay Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:35:17 +0000 http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/#comment-8522 You can only afford to give a so so minor league player who has had several chances, so far, that kind of a chance in the middle part of the season. This is play off time with a questionable player when you have better options on the bench. No one can say that was not a disappointment at that moment that literaly lost the game and that is my thought. You can only afford to give a so so minor league player who has had several chances, so far, that kind of a chance in the middle part of the season. This is play off time with a questionable player when you have better options on the bench. No one can say that was not a disappointment at that moment that literaly lost the game and that is my thought.

]]> By: bobr http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8521 bobr Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:34:07 +0000 http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/#comment-8521 I have thought all along that the clamor to replace Gomes with Ruggiano has been short-sighted given their similar stats in the minors, but how can 24 games and 44 ABs be considered enough to label Ruggiano a disappointment? I just don't get how anyone can dismiss a player after that sort of major league trial. So far this year we have had demands that the following people be either released, traded for nothing or demoted: Pena, Iwamura, Bartlett, Aybar, Upton, Floyd, Hinske, Gross, Jackson, Sonnanstine, Wheeler, Miller, Percival, Gomes, Zobrist, Garza & Hammel. Now that Navarro seems to be in a batting slump, I imagine the screams for his head will begin soon as well. It is not necessarily the same person or people who call for each player's removal, but the reasoning is the same. He failed today or has been slumping for the last week or month or two months so he stinks. Last year the same demands came about Navarro, Howell & Jackson and the year before it was Upton who needed to go. I have thought all along that the clamor to replace Gomes with Ruggiano has been short-sighted given their similar stats in the minors, but how can 24 games and 44 ABs be considered enough to label Ruggiano a disappointment? I just don’t get how anyone can dismiss a player after that sort of major league trial.

So far this year we have had demands that the following people be either released, traded for nothing or demoted: Pena, Iwamura, Bartlett, Aybar, Upton, Floyd, Hinske, Gross, Jackson, Sonnanstine, Wheeler, Miller, Percival, Gomes, Zobrist, Garza & Hammel. Now that Navarro seems to be in a batting slump, I imagine the screams for his head will begin soon as well.

It is not necessarily the same person or people who call for each player’s removal, but the reasoning is the same. He failed today or has been slumping for the last week or month or two months so he stinks. Last year the same demands came about Navarro, Howell & Jackson and the year before it was Upton who needed to go.

]]> By: CharlieRay http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8519 CharlieRay Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:59:31 +0000 http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/#comment-8519 So much for the Rug-Man he has been a disappointment. I would have put in Rocco but that is hind-site. I also would have bunted in the 9th, hind-site also. In the best of two worlds BOS would have lost and they did. Magic # 32 So much for the Rug-Man he has been a disappointment. I would have put in Rocco but that is hind-site. I also would have bunted in the 9th, hind-site also. In the best of two worlds BOS would have lost and they did. Magic # 32

]]> By: Joel http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/comment-page-1/#comment-8518 Joel Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:44:48 +0000 http://viewfromthebleachers.com/raysoflight/2008/08/20/game-126-wait-whats-the-best-team-in-the-al-again/#comment-8518 A 5 - 1 record against the Angels at home is pretty damn good! I'll take it. A 5 – 1 record against the Angels at home is pretty damn good! I’ll take it.

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