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Listening to the TC podcast from last nights game and my God some of the decisions Snit make were beyond awful. I forgot the idiot let Jackson face Wong instead of bringing in Newk in the 8th too
 
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volsarelife1 said:
@Bassmaster_Vol. Is salivating at how people jumped on the fire Snit train now.
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All year long I’ve been mocked by posters in this thread. Was mocked multiple times the night we clinched in this thread.

This is exactly what I was afraid would happen when Snit managed us in the playoffs. We’ll never win a championship with him. Glad you guys are finally seeing it.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
All year long I’ve been mocked by posters in this thread. Was mocked multiple times the night we clinched in this thread.

This is exactly what I was afraid would happen when Snit managed us in the playoffs. We’ll never win a championship with him. Glad you guys are finally seeing it.
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The "motivating guys and managing a clubhouse over 162 games" skill is not the same thing as the "making in-game decisions, especially in a short series" skill. I mean, it's not like we haven't been here before. Bobby Cox was maybe the greatest ever at the former and he was straight doodoo at the latter. I think it's simultaneously true that Snitker deserves a lot of credit for getting this team to overachieve two years in a row and that he absolutely sucks as a tactician.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The "motivating guys and managing a clubhouse over 162 games" skill is not the same thing as the "making in-game decisions, especially in a short series" skill. I mean, it's not like we haven't been here before. Bobby Cox was maybe the greatest ever at the former and he was straight doodoo at the latter. I think it's simultaneously true that Snitker deserves a lot of credit for getting this team to overachieve two years in a row and that he absolutely sucks as a tactician.
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Is it too much to ask to try to find both? We have a manager that costed us game one last night with his boneheaded decisions.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The "motivating guys and managing a clubhouse over 162 games" skill is not the same thing as the "making in-game decisions, especially in a short series" skill. I mean, it's not like we haven't been here before. Bobby Cox was maybe the greatest ever at the former and he was straight doodoo at the latter. I think it's simultaneously true that Snitker deserves a lot of credit for getting this team to overachieve two years in a row and that he absolutely sucks as a tactician.
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This x1000

Bobby managed Game 6 of the NLCS almost like it was game 48 of the regular season.

Snit appears to have his guy's backs, and the guys seem to like playing for him. That's a huge strength as a manager. I think he's below average as a tactician, especially in the playoffs, and that's saying a lot because I think managers generally aren't great tacticians. They are there primarily to motivate and deal with personalities in the clubhouse, not make tactical decisions.
 
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Bassmaster_Vol said:
Is it too much to ask to try to find both? We have a manager that costed us game one last night with his boneheaded decisions.
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There are very, very few managers that are good at both. Kind of like finding a college football coach who is a great recruiter and a great tactician.

Even guys who are thought to be great at both (like Joe Maddon) do stuff that makes you scratch your head. In fact, you can argue the Cubs won the WS in spite of Joe's decision-making in the WS against Cleveland. I love Bobby Cox to death, and he's one of the greatest managers of all time, but as @Vercingetorix said he wasn't a good tactician, especially in a short series, high pressure, sense of urgency situation.

In baseball, there is a such a dramatic difference between the regular season and the playoffs, perhaps more than any other sport. You play 162 games and then all of a sudden you must win 3 out of the next 5 or you're done. Most managers can't make the adjustment.
 
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