from Amazon
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
I thought this was a good enough quote to merit its own thread
All players need rest. Benching a player for one day here or there because he has been cold or because you didn’t like the color of his shoes, or for whatever reason, is fine. Same with dropping a player in the batting order. It’s just not that big a deal. Just don’t pretend that somehow that is going to make your team better for that day. It doesn’t. It makes it worse. You can sometimes do the right things (rest a player occasionally) for the wrong reasons (because he has been “cold").