If the most important thing is keeping the QB from getting hurt, he probably has no business being on the field down 40 points late, late in the 4th quarter.
Correct. And it's not just Ohio State. He's done it against Michigan and PSU too, and he's probably going to do it against Oregon. He basically had his team stand in the corner of the ring and covered their head while waiting for the bell to ring. They were never going to win that game, but...
Lavelle's got a bunch of "hot" takes about the manager search in his column today. Shelton, Tingler, Hunter, Rowson, Gardenhire. Every name with a Twins connection that's been already brought up multiple other places.
If the Commissioner said that, that's pretty eye-opening. Of course, I'm assuming none of this is recorded anywhere. And the fact that these conversations allegedly happened about 6 months ago, but weren't deemed worthy to be aired publicly until after the Lynx dropped a series that included...
Cleveland has traded away Josh Naylor and Andres Gimenez last winter, dealt Bieber at the deadline and lost arguably the best relief pitcher in the game due to a gambling investigation. And they still ran down, and passed the Tigers.
There were multiple times this year when a player either did not run out a ground ball, ran through a stop sign or had no idea how many outs there were. That's a real bad reflection on a manager. Shows a lack of preparation and desire. And you never saw him question the offending player once...
The Strib ran a fluff piece yesterday on why they allegedly were selling the team. Plenty of eye-roll worthy quotes from Joe and Tom (who I'd never heard mentioned before) Pohlad. This one's a beaut:
“It’s understandable for fans to say, ‘You haven’t gotten the job done,’” Tom Pohlad said...