A Bunch of Bad Players Have Invaded the Muskbag
This week’s Muskbag somehow manages to revisit Rich Hill. No one revisits Rich Hill. Rich Hill isn’t even going to have visitors at his house for Thanksgiving. But the Muskbag has all the Rich Hill coverage you could possibly want.
T79 #61: Jeff Conine “The Barbarian”
Jeff Conine has been beating up on the Cubs since before you were born. At least if you’re in high school. Conine’s seventeen-year career was marked by consistency. You were pretty safe counting on Conine for about a .285/.350/.450 line throughout the course of his career. Unless, of course, he was [...]
Muskbaggery
This week’s Muskbag is chock full of personal questions, propositions, and SAM FULD. Hurray!
Ned Yost Should Be Indicted
With Dusty Baker in town with his old familiar dumbassery and excuse-making in tow, it’s easy to think he is the stupidest manager in the National League Central, and he very well may be. But Ned Yost is sure making it interesting, isn’t he? Yost’s handling of CC Sabathia in Sabathia’s nine starts [...]
Let’s All Take A Minute To Point And Laugh
A lot going on around these parts. More than 25% of the Cubs roster will prepare to head to Gotham for the All-Star Game, the team is about a week away from being fully healthy, and they survived the most treacherous stretch of the season while battling alluded-to injuries without once relinquishing their position [...]
Being a Manager is Not THAT Hard, Dusty
Making the decisions of when to hit-and-run, when to pull a struggling pitcher, and how to construct a lineup aren’t easy, and those decisions are the ones for which MLB managers get paid the big bucks. The actual process of managing, though, isn’t hard. Put nine guys in a lineup in some kind [...]
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 [...]
Trying To Look Forward, But I Can’t Help Looking Back
So Felix Pie appears to be proving that he’s up to the challenge of playing centerfield every day in the bigs. Having been a believer of Pie’s since last season–when his numbers may not have warranted it but his presence seemed to–I’m happy about this. Of course, even if you weren’t a [...]
You Poor, Poor Bastards; Reds Sign Patterson, Hairston
I wouldn’t wish Cincinnati Red fandom on anyone on earth right now. Not only do those poor people have to watch Dusty Baker mismanage their team, but now they’re fortunate enough to watch the infuriating Corey Patterson swing from his ass and block center field stud prospect Jay Bruce. As added insult to [...]
Note To Scott Hatteberg: Tough Clogs Don’t Stand A Chance
It’s a little bit down the list in these Notes , so I’ll just reprint it here. I have to. It’s so freaking hilarious that it’d be a sin not to.
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