Managerial Spin

Larry Bowa is a desparate man. In response to the Phils blowing a 7-2 lead, he says this about his bullpen:

"Bowa had another simple explanation for the bullpen's fizzle: An overworked staff clinging to close leads in a homer-friendly park."

News to Larry: Five runs ain't "close", and if you weren't so hung up on the Lefty-Righty thing that you can't let a guy pitch to more than one batter, maybe they wouldn't be so "overworked".



Newberg & Winters
--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

--AZ-01: Rick Renzi

--AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

--CA-04: John Doolittle

--CA-11: Richard Pombo

--CA-50: Brian Bilbray

--CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

--CO-05: Doug Lamborn

--CO-07: Rick O'Donnell

--CT-04: Christopher Shays

--FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

--FL-16: Joe Negron

--FL-22: Clay Shaw

--ID-01: Bill Sali

--IL-06: Peter Roskam

--IL-10: Mark Kirk

--IL-14: Dennis Hastert

--IN-02: Chris Chocola

--IN-08: John Hostettler

--IA-01: Mike Whalen

--KS-02: Jim Ryun

--KY-03: Anne Northup

--KY-04: Geoff Davis

--MD-Sen: Michael Steele

--MN-01: Gil Gutknecht

--MN-06: Michele Bachmann

--MO-Sen: Jim Talent

--MT-Sen: Conrad Burns

--NV-03: Jon Porter

--NH-02: Charlie Bass

--NJ-07: Mike Ferguson

--NM-01: Heather Wilson

--NY-03: Peter King

--NY-20: John Sweeney

--NY-26: Tom Reynolds

--NY-29: Randy Kuhl

--NC-08: Robin Hayes

--NC-11: Charles Taylor

--OH-01: Steve Chabot

--OH-02: Jean Schmidt

--OH-15: Deborah Pryce

--OH-18: Joy Padgett

--PA-04: Melissa Hart

--PA-07: Curt Weldon

--PA-08: Mike Fitzpatrick

--PA-10: Don Sherwood

--RI-Sen: Lincoln Chafee

--TN-Sen: Bob Corker

--VA-Sen: George Allen

--VA-10: Frank Wolf

--WA-Sen: Mike McGavick

--WA-08: Dave Reichert

Welcome to Overmanaged!

The goal of Overmanaged! is to highlight and make fun of excessive (and sometimes) obsessive managerial moves in Major League Baseball. We find it interesting and amusing that, for example, Lloyd McLendon uses three pitchers to get through a single inning while clinging to a four-run lead. We love it when Larry Bowa pulls a double switch to get Doug Glanville into a game, only to pinch hit for him when the opposition predictably puts in a right-handed hitter.

Our goal is to provide you, the reader, (once we do have readers) with at least one example per day of overmanaging. Sometimes it's hard; sometimes the only game played on a Monday in April involves a Ken Macha and Terry Francona matchup. But we'll try, forever clutching our mantra: He who manages least may not manage the best, but he manages better than he who manages the most.

Note on the authors:

Chris is a White Sox fan. He suffered six long years of Jerry Manuel (1998-2003) after suffering two and half long years of Terry Bevington (mid-1995 to 1997), which included Bevington making a second trip to the mound while he had no reliever warming up.

Don Money is not the real Don Money. It is a pseudonym for a Phillies fan whose first trip to a ballgame garnered him a Don Money autographed bat. At the time, the four-year-old had no clue that it was astonishing that management actually gave Phillies' fans bats before the game's result was known. His distrust of Larry Bowa began on a hot summer day in 1979, when the Philly shortstop failed to show at a local Burger King for autographs. It is his hope that the previous sentence will become irrelevant very shortly.

Brad is a Mets fan. He'll edit this post and put in his own self description here.