Condolences to the City of Cincinnati
It looks like Christmas came a couple months early for the rest of the NL Central, as the Cincinnati Reds have signed Dusty Baker to a three-year contract. To MANAGE the team, in case that’s not clear. Yes, the same Reds who are in the NL Central and who watched Dusty manage the Cubs. No, I’m not sure why yet. I guess they wanted a big name.
Go ahead and slide those black armbands all the way down to your wrists, Cincinnati.
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Ryan Beariot homer bailey has just become the new mark prior. ah well, maybe bronson arroyo’s rock power can make everythign better!
or not.
BigFlax Does this mean that Adam Dunn will be encouraged to strike out even more than he does now because walks clog up the bases?
Old Days “Baker is a proven winner…”
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Carrie Muskrat You want a root canal? Sheldon’s your man. But this hack doesn’t exhibit the high standard of journalism the rest of us “reporters” at mlb.com do.
AB Quick- re-acquire Neifi Perez and Jose Macias and send them to Cincy for Homer Bailey.
Jack I’d feel sorry for them if they weren’t in our division. Watch them win the World Series next year. I can almost see it coming. “If only they’d given me a couple more years in Chicago, dude,” Dusty would say, shaking his head, a shit-eating grin on his goofy face.
Bad Kermit I assume it was sarcastic, but Steve Stone said you can expect the Reds to be competitive in 2008 because Dusty was competitive in his first year with Chicago and his first year with San Francisco.
Stevie FAILED to mention that Baker had 2 twenty-game winners in SF and that the highest ERA on that starting staff was a 3.65 (with Beck closing out 48 games that year). The Cubs in 2003, of course, had an absolutely sick 1, 2, 3 in Wood, Prior, and Zambrano, with a very serviceable Matt Clement in the 4th spot and Sweaty Joe pitching his swamp ass off at the end of the pen. You might argue, in fact, that Dusty COST the 2003 team 11 losses by insisting on pitching Shawn Fucking Estes to an 8-11 record when he had the far-more-talented Juan Cruz wasting away in the bullpen. Dusty deserves about as much credit for the 1993 Giants and the 2003 Cubs as I deserve for discovering gummy fish ice cream just because a few happened to fall into the bowl.
But that’s just me. I’m not an analyst.
Buster Bluth > I think you mean that Dusty IS a giant “C”, surely?
Dusty is not a ‘C’, Michael.
Jack BK, let’s not forget the unforgiveable crime of tossing Farnsworth and Remlinger out there in Game 6 and 7 when you have Clement, Zambrano, and Cruz sitting on the bench in the bullpen. The Marlins never even got to see any of Juan Cruz, and maybe we still wouldn’t have won, but it sure would have been nice to see Cruz instead of guys the Marlins didn’t have any issues hitting.
AB The Cuyahoga River just caught on fire again at the thought of the Dusty and his motley crue fishing it’s waters
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BigFlax
Maybe they did it just to piss Marge off.