When you are contending for a spot in the playoffs, when you buy instead of sell at the MLB trade deadline, when your team is competitive instead of sucking wind, dumbass decisions by management are magnified.
1) WTF! Why are you wearing black uniforms during a hot summer day game!
We have off white uniforms, we have bright yellow gold unis, and we wear ******* black jerseys, during a daytime game, in August. ******* August!! That is a complete lack of common sense and unfortunately, indicative of the mentality of management. Dipshit dumbassery abounds!
2) We cannot, under any circumstances, waste a Paul Skenes start. We only have him for 5 years, but, WTF! Why do we insist on inserting struggling players in key moments, during must win games?
Is there a belief by management if we place said struggling player in a pressure situation, that the magnitude of the moment will allow the player to rise out of his slump?
How about we just play to win the ******* game. It's August. Columnists in Milwaukee are already writing about magic numbers.
Anyone who has been paying attention KNOWS that Holderman blows chunks right now, I have seen him waste a Skenes no hit effort on his first ******* pitch. First. *******. Pitch.
Now he blows another fine Skenes showing by walking batters that he MUST not walk, walks that leads him to the meat of the AZ lineup, and then promptly gives up the game deciding HR, to the one guy that we should have intentionally walked.
3) The Pirates have a 38 year old player on 2B and your fastest runner in Bae on the bench. Instead of putting in Bae as the pinch runner, you tell him to grab a bat and hit behind the ondeck batter. When there are 2 outs, you are down by one, and it is the 9th ******* inning.
It is one thing to lose to a better team in a well played game. That is sports. Someone has to win, but I hate ******* losing, and losing to a team because of wasted chances due in large part to complete dumbassery makes my butt tired.
When you have wallowed in no talent, suckitude, for long enough, you may be forgiven for forgetting how to manage a game, but now everybody is watching, a starving steel city hungers for Pirates success. Grace period is over, Play to win the game.
