Wallyball = Jerryball?

and Wally talked all about moving the runner over and laying down the bunt. I threw up a little in my mouth.

but with the mets lineup, when in tact, there arent many people or situations you actually want to bunt (except our 2B) and so i dont think he would act like that with us. he may like the play, but he is not stupid like jerry and apt to use it with first and second, no out and the best chance of getting a hit up at the plate and a guy who has almost never bunted, aka thole with frenchy behind him. i think he would stress moving a runner from second to third with a groundout at the very least and such, and i would have loved to see how he reacted to that scott rolen HBP BS a week back.

And in the 4th inning is criminal. But maybe he realizes winning isn’t important at this level and that every player needs to be prepared for any situation the manager asks of him?

Trying desperately to find a silver lining.

Although according to Law, this team isn’t that young

Weaver, Martin, Lasorda, and so on and so on

Absolutely, and I could not understand why some people here on AA would actually entertain the idea of having him manage the big league squad.

Perhaps the equation for Wally Ball should read like this:
((Jerry Ball+(Grission*2))+Crazy= Wally Ball

Why the Wally-hate? He’s managing a gimme barely-A ball team that’s meant more of an economic development incentive and an incubator than a competitive team. So his mistakes, however correct in the description, may be motivated by something other than the motivations found at the major league level. He almost was the manager, on the merits, of another team before personal issues shipwrecked his chance. Rather than give up, he’s taken a number of exceedingly shit jobs to get back into baseball. A person learns a lot from failure, and I’m willing to give Wally the benefit of the doubt. If he turns into the baseball equivalent of the financial genius that his co-leader in dirty uniforms Lenny was, then at least it was a good experiment.

The man knew what it was like to win in Flushing. How many folks after October 27, 1986, who have not been playing tennis, have known that feeling?

the cyclones have ceiliani batting second and he plays OF, so that puts a major hole in your wallyball=jerryball argument as the 2B doesnt hit second