LaRussa to start Cain and not Dickey!

[will2survive]

This guy tries to micro-manage everything with his pitcher hitting 8th. This guy has an ego. He thinks that he invented baseball. R.A. Dickey must get the start whether a knuckleball is difficult to handle or not. What a joke!


http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/the-cove/Report-Matt-Cain-Named-NL-All-Star-Starting-Pitcher-161785135.html

[SEAHAWKHARRY]

Matt Cain deserved to start

[will2survive]

Matt Cain deserved to start

Dickey is 12-1 with a 2.40 ERA , back to back 1 hitters and 32 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings. Are you CRAZY!!!!!!!

[Regul8er]

Both are deserving in my opinion. You must look at the full body of work in the 1st half....not just a stretch of a few.

Sure Dickey's overall numbers are a bit number, but it's not by any way overwhelming. Onl spot Cain falls short is record, and that falls solely on run support difference.

I'd be perfectly fine with either starting.

[sweep]

Who is on more rest?

[hydrosmak]

This is certainly nothing to be outraged about. It's just the fukkin all-star game!

[PickWinnerAllDay]

How is Ryan Dempster not on the all star team? Best numbers in the NL.

[Barnes & Whine]

Larussa is baseball managerial god, and the baseball gods smile on him whatever he does.

Don't forget, this is Larussa's last chance to micromanage a game so he is going to go crazy with it.

He'll probably end up having McCutchen pitch if it goes to extra innings, who knows.

[Chi_archie]

barnes is right

[Reload]

Makes no sense to me that a retired manager gets to even come back for this. Need to come up with a new rule there somehow.

[PickWinnerAllDay]

Dempster 1.99 ERA 1.01 WHIP... not on All Star team?

[thetrinity]

doesnt matter only all star game.

[2daBank]

"this guy" has won more gms than pretty much anyone in the sport, 4 time manager of the year (should prob have been more), has several WS appearances and a few rings to boot... so show some fukkin respect and take your homer hat off for a second cause RA dickhhead is not the best pitcher in the nl, if TLR (one of the best of all time) doesnt wanna start that gimmicky sideshow act over a REAL pitcher like Cain than that just the way it is..... he wants to win and he probly saw the spankies blow ra dickhead up not all that long ago...

[Vegas39]

Dempster 1.99 ERA 1.01 WHIP... not on All Star team?

Cubs end of story

[2daBank]

Dempster 1.99 ERA 1.01 WHIP... not on All Star team?

i think he just had the injury at the wrong time or he would surely be there..

[big joe 1212]

Managers with the best record at the mid-way point should be doing it. They have more incentive to win this game therefore they will pick the best pitchers and manage the right way.

[2daBank]

Managers with the best record at the mid-way point should be doing it. They have more incentive to win this game therefore they will pick the best pitchers and manage the right way.

you dont think Tony will want to win this gm? i hear what you saying but there no way Larussa isnt in it to win it..

[ShivaBowl]

Absolute disgrace.. LaRussa last hurrah ride off in the sunset old man
and I agree with Joe dogs the cubs the ******* cubs

[Snowball]

LaRussa may be the play here..
He could be the story.
I'm feeling it. Final decision tomorrow.

[2daBank]

LaRussa may be the play here..
He could be the story.
I'm feeling it. Final decision tomorrow.

no other reason to back nl, yet im still doing it on this alone..hopefully he doesnt let dickey into gm

[KingJD31]

Giants somehow have 4 starters Cain over Dickey not terrible buy then Pablo over wright and posey over Ruiz? Unreal

[2daBank]

Giants somehow have 4 starters Cain over Dickey not terrible buy then Pablo over wright and posey over Ruiz? Unreal

posey got voted in over Yadi i believe (i know yadi on leave anyway) but wasnt Buster voted ahead of him? dont get me wrong ruiz having a great yr but Yadi is clearly the best catcher in baseball and his offense has been very good as well.

apparently sf fans have lots of time on their hands to figure out ways to vote 1000's of times..

[becketmcginn]

makes sense actually. Have Dickey come in to face the starters after the hard throwing Cain throws 2 innings. Their timing will be all off. Than after Dickey put Strasburg out there.

[2daBank]

makes sense actually. Have Dickey come in to face the starters after the hard throwing Cain throws 2 innings. Their timing will be all off. Than after Dickey put Strasburg out there.

lots of sense.. TLR is a genius..

[Bcatswin]

Larussa=Fail

[2daBank]

Larussa=Fail

shocking coming from a reds fan...who ironically, fail pretty much every year..

[waggle]

[becketmcginn]

The coke head managing the other side is much better

[Killer_Demo]

SF Matt cain > Dickey SF BITCH

[kfranz31]

thats why he is not coaching anymore

[You mad bro]

Tony Larussa is smart here ... Cain is still better than dickey ... Cain had been putting up good numera for year .. Dickey just this year and against a real hitting team in NNY he got rocked ... Imagine facing hitters like that through an entire lineup ... Dickman would get rocked son

[Pauulzcappin]

LaRussa will outcoach Washington once again...

[Iamlong]

its not crazy at all..Because this game actually means something he felt his best chance was sandwhiching in the knuckleballer inbetween a hard throwing guy like cain and then another hard throwing guy like strasburg or hamels..that makes Dickey most effective as well..If this game meant nothing I think Dickey would start because as you mentioned he is having the better year slightly..but from a strategy standpoint, I think he has more then justified his decision.

[Chimneyfish]

Dickey is 12-1 with a 2.40 ERA , back to back 1 hitters and 32 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings. Are you CRAZY!!!!!!!

But choosing a starter for the All-Star Game isn't the equivalent of picking a first half Cy Young award winner or something. If we were going just by the numbers then Greinke would be starting over both of them- and he didn't even make it on to the roster. Dickey has had a slightly better half than Cain overall, but that doesn't necessarily make him the best pick for this particular game.

When one of your two starter options will have the opportunity to pitch to his own catcher, that becomes a big factor. When that battery works so well together that they recently put together a perfect game, that's an even bigger factor. When the alternative option would be have a pitcher tossing knuckleballs to a catcher who's never caught them before, it becomes clear why Cain got the nod here.

[BigDaddy]

Dickey is going to get hit hard in this game

just wait and see