***Official 2007 Philadelphia Phillies Thread*** - Page 90

.Alex. · #**891** 09-06-2007, 07:39 PM

So did Ray Rhodes.

PokerFink · #**892** 09-06-2007, 07:43 PM

And Bill Barber.

And Andy Reid. Oh, wait, he actually is a good coach.

EricLindros · #**893** 09-06-2007, 11:06 PM

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By most accounts, the players love Manuel and he will be back. Hopefully, they bring in someone to whisper in his ear what to do tactically.

And agreed with Bremen, it's not Manuel's fault that his bullpen sucks. It's not like he has three stud relievers and he stubbornly uses Gordon anyway.

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I agree that the players play for him, and have shown quite a bit of fight despite all the injuries. That being said, he makes some awful decisions during the course of games, including some of the worst bullpen and bench management skills I've seen outside of little league. I had hoped that Jimmy Williams would have been able to assist Charlie with some of that this year, but that doesn't appear to have happened.

I'm torn. While I like the attitude Charlie brings to the team, I can't stand some of the actual managerial decisions he makes, which undoubtedly have cost the team games over the past few seasons.

Ideally, he'd be a great bench coach with a good tactical guy as the manager, in the mold of a Zimmer type guy, but you obviously can't do that when he's already been the manager.

PRE · #**894** 09-08-2007, 10:07 PM

Managers are soooo overrated in importance, but Manual is still below average.

Nez477 · #**895** 09-10-2007, 12:08 PM

Good luck this week Phillies... either the Rockies or Phils could be one game out after this series, maybe even tied for the WC lead with 3-4 wins. LA probably takes two of three from SD.

Homer · #**896** 09-10-2007, 10:35 PM

bumpity bump bump...they're sucking me back in. gogogo whoever is playing the padres tonight.

Spellmen · #**897** 09-10-2007, 10:52 PM

I've been watching but trying to avoid posting for a bit. SD has the night off, but kicks off a series against LAD tomoroow

GooooooooooooOOOOOOOO Dodgers!!!!!

They have SF after that though [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

NajdorfDefense · #**898** 09-10-2007, 10:52 PM

Going all the way. Hamels comes back and pitches like Marty Bystrom 1980. Ryan and Pat hit 6 HRs every game.

Book it!

DemonDeac · #**899** 09-10-2007, 11:22 PM

Gotta admit, the Bat has been unbelievable since the break

hoyasnaxa · #**900** 09-11-2007, 02:40 AM

1.5 games. Lets go boys, i still cant believe that braves lossssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssss

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