Last fall Terry and I discussed in depth our joint belief that college football coaches have to be some of the dumbest men in the world. My personal feeling is that it's not so much that they are dumb as that they aren't satisfied with just winning - they want to be the reason their team wins. I won't go into that too much here. I just wanted to point out a play from today's opening game of the 2008 College World Series that I think serves as proof that baseball coaches fall into the same category.
Leading off the 6th inning, the #2 hitter for Stanford homered to make it 2-0. The 3 hole hitter followed with a double off the wall. The pitcher was tiring... his pitches were getting up in the zone... the wind was blowing out... and the clean up hitter was coming up. And what do you think he did? Yep, he bunted the runner over to third. The runner scored later on a single (that would have scored him from second anyway).
Why give away the out like that? Don't they realize how precious those outs are? Even if the batter is Chico Lind, there was no benefit in bunting. You are more likely to score from 2nd with no outs than you are from 3rd with one out. And this wasn't Chico Lind! It was the cleanup hitter! Who had ZERO sac bunts this year before that one!
Somewhere Dusty Baker is going, "Now THAT'S the way to play baseball!"
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The baseball field on the home page... SGPHS?
That isn't SGPHS. Not sure what field it is, but that's not it.
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