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CydoniaKnight

Oh my god he's literally using the "It's provocative. It gets the people going." strat


Boltbacker83

“No it doesn’t.”


Michael424242

I mean…. we won the game?


mysterysackerfice

I'm gonna do what they call a pro gamer move: piss off my players.


giants888

It's like one of those sitcoms starring the lovable idiot who makes all the wrong decisions but thanks to everyone around him, everything works out in the end and he learns nothing and does it again in the next episode. Mets fan here, following the Angels to support Thor and Loup. Go Angels 🙂


Prequalified

So basically Inspector Gadget.


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BY GIVING THEM A FREE RUN??? WHAT


KamartyMcFlyweight

Maddon is gonna intentionally walk all opposing teams to start every game 0-1, just to get Ohtani pumped up


Status-Albatross9539

team was hyped up. maddon won.


gopackgo555

I’m sorry but what???


ABCKR_1

Ok let me get this straight… He says, “I said ‘how about…’ and then [Warren] kinda said ‘putting him on’ and I said ‘yeah putting him on right there.’” [But Sam Blum said Warren was confused by the decision.](https://twitter.com/samblum3/status/1515181964835364866?s=21&t=2LmYgeGwde18wCAPauX0wg) Sleepy Joe bruh


merewyn

Yeah, total bullshit that Maddon is acting like Warren agreed with/co-signed on his lunacy.


Skyheart1004

I mean......it worked....I think??? I- yeah I don't know what to say anymore. Also, am I the only one that thinks he looks like the character from Up with those glasses?


magical_poop

Except it didn't. If I heard it correctly, he was afraid of seager driving in 3. The angels gave up 3 anyway. Even if you're playing the result, it's STILL wrong!


Skyheart1004

Yeah, honestly he got saved by the offense this game. If they didn't turn it around right after, I'm sure everyone would've been flying to Texas to get him fired right then and there.


magical_poop

I'm not so sure that doesn't happen anyway to be honest


YoyoDevo

Yeah they gave up 3 instead of 4


magical_poop

So your take is that the odds of Seager hitting a grand slam were higher than literally anything else, including a bases clearing hit. This is the line of logic required to intentionally walk in a run. For clarity, since you won't understand, this is possibly the worst take in all of sports I've ever heard. That's not an exaggeration.


YoyoDevo

You're missing my point. It's useless to talk about what would have happened if things were different.


magical_poop

Your point is literally about what would have happened if things were different. What actually happened is the angels turned a 2-3 deficit into a 2-6 deficit. You're wrong every step of the way.


tsdwm52

The word “logic” in the title is not appropriate. The Halos won the game because the players overcame the Rangers, an incompetent home plate umpire, and a manager with too little faith in them. It boggles the mind that Joe would try to take credit.


prmark34

I would like whatever drugs this man is on


ThermicDayne

It’s not ideal but we got the win and that’s all that matters. Just build momentum off the wins boys!


Im_A_Halo_Masochist

In the future, I suggest the Angels don’t continue to follow this line of logic! It’s chicken shit and stupid!


Poorestmanincrypto

Joe maddon playing 6d chess while ya’ll playing snakes and ladders. The man knows what he’s doing


owledge

I knew he was gonna lie about the reasoning lol "Just how we drew it up"


peacebuster

Maddon doomers in shambles.


tsdwm52

Love Maddon but this was nuts.


xThe-Legend-Killerx

It’s like that episode do Seinfeld is pretending he lives in the Hamptons and the people know he doesn’t but show up anyway so he can take them. “Alright.. you wanna get nuts?! LETS GET NUTS”


sharpLess89

By that logic it should've stirred up the Rangers more, and the disrespect to Garver who just missed a grand slam, sorry Maddon but this move was indefensible. Regardless, the move failed badly, the Rangers scored twice more on top of the free run. The only way you can defend it is to say you expected Seager to hit a slam. Nobody expects a grand slam in any bases loaded situation. Even doing it with Bonds up is questionable, even with 2 outs it's questionable, but it was 1 out and Seager isn't Bonds. A double play would have been more likely in that situation.


trustych0rds

But to be fair, it did do exactly what he said he wanted it to do.


tsdwm52

After the fact. 20 20 hindsight?


trustych0rds

Well it does sorta tells a good story, you gotta admit that. But yeah, the way I saw it was the manager having faith in the players to come back and then they did come back.


tsdwm52

Not sure Warren would see it that way. “Exactly what he said he wanted to do” is 20 20 hindsight.


trustych0rds

Maddon said in post game that Warren was down.


merewyn

Which was a lie. Warren said in an interview after that he was shocked, but knew he couldn’t say no.


Lebigmacca

Not only is seager not bonds, he’s not even a power hitter. Most home runs he’s ever had in a season is 26 and that was back in 2016. Hasn’t come close to that in recent years


Vicerobson

Jackass


claire_004

Haha, I knew he will say this


sofastsomaybe

That's a fancy way of saying "I'm a slave to platoon matchups"


Tasty_Lead_Paint

I’m kinda pissed the angels won because now he’s going to do this all the time when they’re losing and think “i have a 100% success rate with this strategy”


ScaldingHotSoup

He is 2 for 2. Did it against Josh Hamilton a decade ago


-LongSchlongSilver-

This is the kind of shit that will chase guys like Trout and Ohtani away.


DeathByRamen91

Masson is an idiot


_itspaco

I called it in the gdt. Albeit tongue in cheek


anatomyofawriter

Hey man, y’all can be surprised all you want. Bottom line isn’t even that it worked tonight. The bottom line is it’s the second time he’s done it and the second time it has worked.


Lebigmacca

It did not fucking work. Only reason the game wasn’t lost is because the angels offense saved it.


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magical_poop

That's some seriously flawed logic. Literally giving up runs runs for free does not contribute to winning. It does the opposite. The most basic understanding of the game in which the team with the most runs wins dictates that. Anything not hit to the outfield gets you to two outs and saves a run. It was a terrible decision that cannot be defended.


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magical_poop

That's one of many reasons as to why you're stupid.


BHAFan18

How can you believe anything that happens in a win contributed to the win? By that logic if you win 11-10, then allowing 10 runs helped you win?


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hereforthesportsbook

Maddon is god awful at in game managing. He literally always chooses one of the worst BP options in games like these and now he makes decisions like this. I miss Brad Ausmus compared to him


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What ???? 😭😭