Re: Little

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:46 PM 10/17/03 -0700, Michael Gooen wrote:

><<Without him, they get further. They won in spite of him this year, not
>because of him. Just one of the stupidest managerial moves I have ever
>seen to leave Pedro in that long.>>
>
>"One of??????????"  Shawn, while I completely agree with your main point I
>challenge you or anyone else on this list to name one -- just one --
>managerial or coaching move, in any sport, at any level, at any time in
>the history of sports that even approaches Grady Little's 8th inning
>pitching moves in sheer stupidity.

Bill Russell's last game against the Lakers in the playoffs, game 7.  Wilt 
Chamberlain had come to the Lakers, and it looked like one final showdown 
between Russell and Chamberlain.  But with the C's holding a 17-point lead, 
Wilt took himself out of the game.  When the Lakers--with Mel Counts taking 
Wilt's place on the court--mounted a comeback, Wilt wanted back in.  But 
his coach, Butch Van Breda Kolff, was annoyed that Wilt had taken himself 
out in the first place, and refused to send him back in.

Boston won the "balloon game", and another chapter in Celtics history was 
written.

Don't know much more about baseball other than Snoopy plays shortstop, but 
I think that the Lakers screwing up game seven of the finals against Boston 
was a bigger mistake than the one you cite.  Never could resist a challenge.

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