[blarson]

Here is an Excellent AAA fill in getting crap for following a MLB directive. MLB should just let the guys who are the best in the business at doing their job do it.

Without that directive he may have never made that call. How much you want to be that some suit in the front office won't even take responsibility and say, yup he did what we told him to do but to shirk it off and say.....Well, that's not what we meant.

/soapbox_off

Bob