First theme
So I had an idea last night (while drinking) for my first string of posts with a common theme. See, I'm an avid Cubs fan. But, I'm such a fan that it hurts and disgusts me while watching these teams coached by "I can't Coach but I do love wristbands" McGee. I sure hate him. Not in the sense that I'm racist about it or I wish to be hurtful. Well, I do intend to be hurtful, but only in regards to him being such a terrible coach. But anyways, as long as the Cubs are coached by Toothpick Jackass (I'm going to make up as many nicknames as possible), they're going to suck. And, I mean, he is a sucky coach, so they're entitled to suck I guess. So I will be posting daily rants about why Dirty Baker should lose his job and/or not get a contract extension. Because aside from having John Mabry on the roster next year, that is my greatest fear for the Cubs. Now I know that there are many sites dedicated to getting Our Poor Manager fired, but I just want to do my part and get that bastard out.
So here's today's entry: I was reading chicagosports.com as I often do to check on any Chicago sports news, and I saw a story about Carlos Marmol going on the D.L. The Dustman attributed Marmol's arm injury due to pitch counts being too high. Hmm, who keeps track of pitch counts? It certainly wouldn't be the manager's job. He's not in charge of the players on the field. It's the pitching coach's job isn't it? Well, despite all of my speculation, Dusty never chose to answer who's in charge of keeping track of pitch counts. He just said they were too high. It wasn't even like 'Hindsight is 20/20." Of course, that would mean he admitted a mistake, to which couldn't possibly have happened.
Dusty went on to say that Greg Maddux, early in his career, threw 160+ pitches in one game. Ok, I'm not going to the trouble of looking this up, so there may be a chance that I'm wrong. But Greg Maddux has pretty much always been a minimalist. Let alone the fact that if Maddux had thrown 160+ pitches, in, say, 8 innings, he's throwing 20 pitches per inning. Ok, let's say 9 innings. That's nearly 18 pitches per inning. Why would any coach leave a guy out there who is throwing 18 pitches an inning for a complete game? Unless of course he's an idiot and has no idea that too many pitches could hurt someone's arm. I hate Dusty Baker. But solely on personality and managerial abilities.
I used to think Jim Riggleman was an idiot for putting Kerry Wood on pitch counts of like 90 per game when Wood first came up. I thought he was an idiot. Then Wood blew out his arm anyway. Many times. But Riggleman never had 4 young pitchers go down with arm problems. Also, Riggleman took us to the playoffs, then sucked with a sucky team. Baker took us to the NLCS, then threw us down the drain. Fire that man. Or at the very least, don't extend that terrible contract
So here's today's entry: I was reading chicagosports.com as I often do to check on any Chicago sports news, and I saw a story about Carlos Marmol going on the D.L. The Dustman attributed Marmol's arm injury due to pitch counts being too high. Hmm, who keeps track of pitch counts? It certainly wouldn't be the manager's job. He's not in charge of the players on the field. It's the pitching coach's job isn't it? Well, despite all of my speculation, Dusty never chose to answer who's in charge of keeping track of pitch counts. He just said they were too high. It wasn't even like 'Hindsight is 20/20." Of course, that would mean he admitted a mistake, to which couldn't possibly have happened.
Dusty went on to say that Greg Maddux, early in his career, threw 160+ pitches in one game. Ok, I'm not going to the trouble of looking this up, so there may be a chance that I'm wrong. But Greg Maddux has pretty much always been a minimalist. Let alone the fact that if Maddux had thrown 160+ pitches, in, say, 8 innings, he's throwing 20 pitches per inning. Ok, let's say 9 innings. That's nearly 18 pitches per inning. Why would any coach leave a guy out there who is throwing 18 pitches an inning for a complete game? Unless of course he's an idiot and has no idea that too many pitches could hurt someone's arm. I hate Dusty Baker. But solely on personality and managerial abilities.
I used to think Jim Riggleman was an idiot for putting Kerry Wood on pitch counts of like 90 per game when Wood first came up. I thought he was an idiot. Then Wood blew out his arm anyway. Many times. But Riggleman never had 4 young pitchers go down with arm problems. Also, Riggleman took us to the playoffs, then sucked with a sucky team. Baker took us to the NLCS, then threw us down the drain. Fire that man. Or at the very least, don't extend that terrible contract
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