Tribe masters the art of defeat

tom wrote:

Wedge is a good Manager, but he was not last night.
When a reliever (Betancourt or anyone else) is brought in with a 5-run lead, and gives a base on balls up to the first batter, he then must be replaced right away,´cause that means he has nothing on it.
Well, that´s all in the past now. Let´s now beat the hell out of the Rays and the Mariners, an we´re back on track.
We´ll miss CC, but we can do it without him (like the Twins w/o Santana)

I agree to disagree... From the time I was in little league you have been taught if you are tied in the 9th and have a man on first with no one out, you bunt...plain and simple...I have witnessed at least 3 times that he has had the hitter swing away.

We witnessed Skinner on multiple occasions send slow runners home on a single and fast runners held up. Wedge is his boss.

He makes the call to platoon Michaels and Delucci instead of using Francisco or someone else.

Now we see he is going to hold a meeting about how bad things are, that should have been done at the first series sweep, or many times before that when the team couldn't hit. He could have found another hitting coach...or pitching coach...but he sticks with the same guys. We were luckly last year, Cabrera and others came up from the minors and were hitting, while the Hafner's and others couldn't do anything. If they hadn't we wouldn't have made the playoffs.

I agree that players still have to perform...but there are situational baseball fundamentals that Wedge seems to get wrong...that alone tells me he is not ready to coach in the majors.

Way to go Injun Nation!!!!!