Buck Stuff

[FlipCup]

Agreed with most in this thread. This was Britton's game in that last inning. As most will not agree, but I've had enough of Buck and his "loyalty" (reimold) with us.

[TINSTAAPP]

Going to freaking Ubaldo out of the bullpen instead of Britton? Incredible.

[joew]

I hate to over react on Buck. But, every place he leaves they win a WS. Buck is great for creating a winning culture but fails to win it being too stubborn.

[TradeAngelos]

Yes and it really isn't close.

[Dark Helmet]

Honestly, I agree. And he can take Jones with him. Trade Manny and Schoop. Sick of watching these guys hack away at every pitch.

[Why Not?]

I understand using Ubaldo because the game might have gone 10 more innings. But after the first batter....heck the first pitch of the first at-bat.....you gotta get Britton and Bundy up.

[pastorfan]

If Britton's not hurt, it was easily the worst decision in the entire career of Buck Showalter.

Hard to argue your point,I think you are right!

[Brian88]

And if you are going to pinch hit for Kim with 2 outs and no one on why not bring in Mancini? Stubbs can play LF... You get a better hitter and a better fielder then.

[paulcoates]

Gotta be. We left Hunter, Buddy and Britton all sitting on their hands out there

[FlipCup]

He needs to be gone from just this one decision.

[paulcoates]

Crazy talk

[Finisher]

Best closer on earth goes unused in a do or die game that goes extra.

Just think about the sheer idiocy of that. Doesn't even seem possible.

[Sessh]

Buck used the BP brilliantly today except for this.

Pinch hitting for Kim yet again with Reimold is another head scratcher. Buck keeps doing this.

I disagree. Buck got away with bad decisions. You use your BEST pitchers in a tie game where if you lose, you go home. Buck was doing everything he could to NOT use Britton. The results were good, but they were not

smart moves. It just isn't. Gibbons had it right using Osuna for two innings and then going to Liriano. Showalter did all he could to not use Britton, the best pitcher in BASEBALL at a time where you had to shut the other

team down. Terrible decision. Also, why not walk Encarnacion? Why are we hanging our entire season on Ubaldo out of the bullpen?

[LocoChris]

You know, searching through that Ubaldo vs. Tillman thread, there were a lot of votes for Ubaldo to start this game.

This one is a hard one to swallow but people bashing Buck and pretending they can manage better are deluding themselves.

[gcates9898]

Talk about pushing your luck til it runs out.

You wait to get a lead to use him and it's probably not going to happen. I was saying this all night. How do you not bring him in after Ubaldo puts runners on first and third with one out? Why do you bring Ubaldo in to begin with?

Everyone who thinks, 'Where was Zach?' is right.How do you bring Ubaldo into a tied extra innings, this is the rest of our year, ball game.

Zach had to know he was going up to 6 outs tonight. This is ALL

on Buck.