Friday Night Fukudome: Baker vs. Yost
I’m not going to lie. I haven’t been too pleased with the lineups Lou has proposed this week. Despite his fascination with Ryan Theriot at the top of the lineup, though, Lou is still the cream of the NL Central managers. If you look around at the rest of the NL Central’s skippers, you’ll find some real dogs. After watching Dusty Baker mismanage his team for four years in Chicago, and then watching Ned Yost do what he could to hand the Cubs the NL Central pennant last year, two doofuses really stand head and shoulder above the rest.
So why not put the two of them into the Fukudome, and see which one leaves?
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Actually, after thinking on it for a moment…
Since Yost’s team will likely give him more chances to fuck up a win, I’m going to have to switch my vote to him.
Now, if this were a poll on who is more of a moron…
Kermit — Can’t believe you’ve given no coverage to Pie’s twisted testicle or Tad Iguchi’s anal fissure. Is it just me or do you think the two injuries might be related?
That’s a really good point. The Brewers will most likely be ahead in at least a handful of games, and Yost will most likely put in Derrick Emo during those games, and Derrick Emo will most likely shit down his pant leg in all of those games.
With Dusty’s hilarious lineup construction, is there any chance of him having a lead in a game all year? Of course, does Dusty’s horrid lineup construction count against him at all?
That’s why I picked Yost on the first try. Even if Dusty made the correct decisions 100% of the time, the Reds still don’t win more than 75 games. The Brewers are a potential 85-95 win team, if handled correctly.
Also: this year or over the team’s lifespan…?
Counterpoint:
Thanks to some shoddy wording in the poll, I feel compelled to go with Baker. You see the question is “Which NL Central dimwit will cost his team more games?” It never specifies *more games this year*, just “more games”. When you consider Baker’s handling of young talent, you are looking at a man who has the chance to cost his team an untold number of wins over the next 3-7 seasons. Yost might lose a dozen or more games for his team, but in Baker we are looking at a man who can literally cripple a team at an organizational level. And if he starts installing his own coaches at various levels of play, Baker becomes the problem that never really goes away. Yost is a terrible field general, Baker is a comically corrupt tinpot dictator. 5 years from now, Reds pitchers will still be trying to teach themselves to throw with their remaining arms or possibly their feet, slower power hitters will be consciously trying to make outs to avoid clogging the bases and those players who do run the bases will be concentrating so hard on making sure Baker’s kid hasn’t just run in front of them underfoot that they will never be able to pay attention to a single play.
Man, BK, what law school did YOU go to anyway? I mean I’m the assistant manager of a nacho stand down at the mall foodcourt and I just totally outfoxed you!
Actually, you just stole my idea (see: above). So, I did the outfoxing; you did the expansion thereafter — good job elaborating MY point, though, by the way.
Jesus Christ.
I voted for Dusty Baker, because Dusty Baker has to life human life as Dusty Baker. That, my friends, is alone, too much burden for one man to bear.
Huh? MikeD. covered Felix. And it’s Kazuo that has the ripped butthole.
what?
my bad(s)
So many ripped buttholes. It’s tough to keep up.
I voted for Dusty as well. He’s already taken more steps to fuck the Reds’ season then Yost. Simply by getting Dick Pole, Juan Lopez, and Chris Speier on the coaching staff, he’s working toward establishing the sycophantic clubhouse he had in Chicago and San Francisco. Another season or tow and all the coaches will be Baker The GM is enabling him by acquiring Corey Patterson and Jerry Hairston, Jr. If I were Aaron Harang, I’d be reading my health plan very carefully right now and Joey Votto should be pleading for a trade. If they weren’t in our division, I’d weep for them. Yost could use a fucking magic 8-ball to make managerial decisions and still not cost the Brewers as many games this season.
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I voted for Dusty as well. He’s already taken more steps to fuck the Reds’ season then Yost. Simply by getting Dick Pole, Juan Lopez, and Chris Speier on the coaching staff, he’s working toward establishing the sycophantic clubhouse he had in Chicago and San Francisco. Another season or two and all the coaches will be Baker’s Boys, and all the players will be veterans past their prime. The GM is enabling him by acquiring Corey Patterson and Jerry Hairston, Jr. If I were Aaron Harang, I’d be reading my health plan very carefully right now and Joey Votto should be pleading for a trade. If they weren’t in our division, I’d weep for them. Yost could use a fucking magic 8-ball to make managerial decisions and still not cost the Brewers as many games this season.
Not sure what happened, but my comment posted before I was done with it. Must’ve gotten mouse happy.