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Twilight of the Crusty Old Pain-In-The-Ass Baseball Manager

If you're going to do some disastrous, avant-garde baseball managing, it is probably best not to do it during a day game against one of the best teams in the league. Not for Tony La Russa. It's smack dab in the middle of the afternoon when La Russa decides to play the percentages and inexplicably issue an intentional walk to the Dodgers' Trea Turner in the middle of an at-bat with Turner facing a 1-2 count. Sox announcer Jason Bennetti is baffled. The Comiskey crowd roars with incredulity. A man can be heard on the broadcast bellowing "THERE ARE TWO STRIKES, TONY.