Quote Originally Posted by engie View Post
People are totally losing their minds about one loss that they blame on the coach. When did they last spend so much time and effort praising his(exact same) decisions that turn to gold?

There's no balance to it. That is my actual problem. It's all negative all the time. All freak outs all the time. The positive is ignored.

It's not even actual baseball discussion anymore. It's a shitshow about who can bitch the most.

People freak out about him bunting in a lay up game in the midweek. I post that it's the perfect time to work on bunting guys that normally wouldn't and would probably translate to helping us. Gavin Collins lays one down for a hit the following weekend. I bump the thread. The thread gets locked within 5 minutes without explanation. No one wants to talk about it when it works and they had just looked like a donkey. They just want all that to go away quietly.

My bottom line is the positive GREATLY outweighs the negative this year. So, yeah -- maybe he cost us that game. You can certainly argue it and make a compelling case. So what? He has won us more than he's lost us this season -- and not just barely. The team is outplaying their talent level. This team is outplaying the talent level of ANY MSU baseball team of the last(at least) 19 years. And I stopped at that number because I remember the 97 team being the real deal, but do not remember the exact extent of it. Just remember it being the 94 class all grown up and what should have been the final Polk swan song. Literally the best team entering May in the minds of all the people around the country responsible for polls since before I was even seriously thinking about actually driving a vehicle. And 90+% of the posts and thoughts on the matter are negative and bitching about how big of idiot he is. It does not compute.
Funny how these people disappeared in the second inning when Cohen called the hit and run that kept us out of the double play and allowed us to score the second (and what would prove to be game-winning) run... I figured to get some positive feedback from this post in the game thread, but I guess not:

Quote Originally Posted by messageboardsuperhero View Post
Give him credit- Cohen pulled all the right strings in that second inning.
Also, I must have missed the praise when Cohen called the hit and run in the ninth inning of Thursday's game that started the rally... Or the Robson bunt in the ninth inning of game one today that forced an error and allowed us to take the lead in the first place?

If you're going to criticize him for bad calls (which taking Sexton out was obviously), then you also have to give him credit when things go right.