By being the manager and just playing whoever I want."

By being the manager and just playing whoever I want."

Our awesome manager, on how he will decide
whether to start Kearns or Buck in left field for any given game.

about 1 year ago Jay 14 comments 0 recs |

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Contrast that to Wedge, who probably would have spent a minute or two mumbling about “nose in it” and “playing through it” and whatnot.

by emd2k3 on Apr 5, 2011 9:55 PM EDT reply actions

I was thinking the same thing. Wedge tried too hard to find the perfect answer, Acta just answers.

by Ryan on Apr 5, 2011 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions

What I love about it so much is, he’s basically started challenging the media to stop asking such stupid questions, by finally giving them the dismissive answers they’ve long deserved. He’s trying to get them to raise their game, which is what a manager is supposed to do.

by Jay on Apr 5, 2011 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions 8 recs

This is anything but a stupid question. Writers have so much copy to produce before, during and after games and just about everything is at least worthy of an item in a notes column. This “dismissive answer” is also a golden quote, so it accomplished everything the writer wanted — he got a great quote and the answer to his question.

by jefftribe on Apr 6, 2011 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions

It’s a pretty stupid question either way.

by Roger Dorn on Apr 6, 2011 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

While I hate to do this, I’ll stick up for the writers a little bit. You can’t just say “Acta will most likely…” I mean, you can, but a quote from Acta is always going to be more valuable. So a lot of obvious questions need to be asked just to be able to quote him on this stuff.

I feel like that’s 80% of dumb questions. The rest is just dumb questions.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on Apr 6, 2011 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions

What’s stupid is looking for a pat answer all the time. What’s stupid is that a guy who’s been covering the Indians full time for decades still sees things in such simplistic terms.

by Jay on Apr 6, 2011 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions