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Message: [QUOTE="Jaydumo20, post: 5130566, member: 9280"] Happy day after Thanksgiving. I read a lot of these posts yesterday and had a good time. I also realized something that is obvious but needs to be repeated: Quick story: a friend of mine was a AA pitcher in the Rays' system. He basically said that although he knew how to pitch, mentally he wasn't strong to shake off a HR or walk. That's what separates the pros from the Joes. When it comes to cbb, most of are Joes. When we feel any kind of discomfort when a player is playing poorly, our immediate reaction is to put an end to it. Sit him! Yank him. Or if there is a run from the other team.... we want an immediate TO. We don't like any discomfort as fans but we have to understand that coaches and players, the best ones, know that in order to be great you have to master that discomfort. Let's take Mahaney: he hasn't played well. But have we considered that the staff is not leaving him in simply because they're dumb? They may be doing it because they understand that you need to keep a kid's head up. Maybe us fans can't bear to watch him play poorly, but pro coaches can. Giving up on a player is poor psychology. If we took the BYs advice and moved AJax down the bench in 23....well, I don't have to finish that statement. You all know how the AJax thing turned out. Hurley stuck with him, and it worked, because... Danny Hurley knows way more than we do [/QUOTE]