You tell 'em Charlie!

Per The Morning Call (Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania daily), this is Charlie Manuel's response to criticism from Tim Just-Call-Me-God McCarver that his decision to not put his runners in motion in the eighth inning of Game 2 was "wrong".

"I don't give a damn who's played 20 years or 50 years and think they know, that's not the right way to play the game," Manuel said, "I get upset when somebody asks me that because it's not baseball."

"I didn't even have to think about that. That's bad baseball if Utley strikes out and Rollins get thrown out at third base. We've got one of the best hitters in baseball standing on deck (Ryan Howard). That's our game standing right there in front of us."

"We've got only five outs left in the game, we've got our biggest offensive threat standing at the plate. There's no way we could afford to make a mistake there. I'll do that as long as I live."

Charlie has a new fan today.*

*As I have said before, I probably would have sent the runners but Manuel's decision not to is defensible and not "wrong". Do you think Tim McCarver does apologies? Yea, me neither. He is too busy being "right".