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Dusty has Zambrano pitching well but his pitch count got up there and he gets him out with a 1-0 lead. Dusty haters probably going nuts. Novoa and Wood pitch a scoreless 7th and 8th.

LaRussa on the other hand leaves Marquis in to hit for himself...then leaves him in to pitch to Lee with his pitch count well over 100...Lee doubles. 1st base is open with Ramirez due up and Burnitz on deck...the Cardinals have one of the best bullpens in the NL...he'll walk Ramirez and get a lefty/lefty matchup on Burnitz, right? WRONG...pitch to Ramirez with Marquis gassed at 114 pitches and watch him drive in ANOTHER run!

:lolBIG:

Game isn't over...but Dusty sure looks a lot smarter when Lee and Ramirez are hitting instead of batting .200 with 1 RBI like Lee did for the first 10 days of August during the losing streak.
 

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dusty couldn't outmanage larussa if larussa fell asleep in the dugout.
 

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Dusty and Larussa DESPISE each other. It's nice to see Larussa, who usually overmanages, leave his guy in there and pay for it. Managers are over-rated anyway.
 

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blue edwards said:
dusty couldn't outmanage larussa if larussa fell asleep in the dugout.

LaRussa would have done a better job today if he would have fallen asleep...:toast:
 

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LaRussa is the smartest person he has ever met. Dusty has not had a problem getting his players motivated for the good teams. His trouble is getting them motivated against lesser opponents

Cubs vs.

White Sox 3-3
Red Sox 2-1
Cardinals 5-2
 

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blue edwards said:
dusty couldn't outmanage larussa if larussa fell asleep in the dugout.

Yeah - Larussa batted the pitcher eighth for a couple months.

NO MANAGER - and I mean NOBODY - has done anything THAT stupid in the past 20 years.
 

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