Heyman: Dusty should get another shot

[Banedon]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jon_heyman/02/09/scoop.friday/1.html

 

And now here's my rather long list of the folks who will be on teams' short lists, or should be:

 

1. Joe Girardi, Yankees broadcaster.

Personality conflict with Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, GM Larry Beinfest and other Marlins front-office types led to his ouster in South Florida despite his Manager of the Year trophy. Probably could have gone to Washington but is waiting for something better.

 

2. Dusty Baker, broadcaster.

Multiple Manager of the Year winner took the blow for two disappointing years on the North Side when they've had nearly 100 years of disappointments. Something's wrong if he can't get another job.

 

*snicker*

[Tracer Bullet]

No one's saying Dusty shouldn't be able to get another job. Just not as a manager.

[abuck1220]

so because the cubs have sucked for 100 years, they shouldn't have fired dusty for sucking for two?

[danonwaveland]

I do hope Dusty gets another job. . .

 

maybe next year in St. Louis

[WrigleyField 22]

I thought Dusty got another chance:

 

 

he lost almost 100 games.

[A New Era]

I do hope Dusty gets another job. . .

 

maybe next year in St. Louis

 

That would be AWESOME!! ha ha. Won't happen though. . St. Louis is a SMART orginazation. .

[Jehrico]

I do hope Dusty gets another job. . .

 

maybe next year in St. Louis

 

I was about to post "TLR has to retire someday..." but you beat me to the punch!

[Electron Blue]

I thought Dusty got another chance:

 

 

he lost almost 100 games.

 

that about sums it up.

[A New Era]

Wait!

 

::reads script::

 

Yes. He gets another Shot!

 

(lamented cubs fans) - Oh yes, he does he does. .

[MPrior]

Wait!

 

::reads script::

 

Yes. He gets another Shot!

 

(lamented cubs fans) - Oh yes, he does he does. .

 

Nice.

[Amazing_Grace]

Didn't the sportswriters say the same thing about Don Baylor? He was quite possibly a bigger idiot than Dusty.

 

Dusty is an OK manager if you have a team of veteran players, basically nobody younger than 28 or so, that play in a pitcher's park where it's hard to hit. His managing style favors a small ball style of play. He ignores walks on both sides of the ball, which is a strategy that, while still stupid, is much less stupid in pitcher's parks where there are a lot fewer hits and HR. The NL West is probably the most pitcher friendly division in all of baseball, save Colorado, and the Giants perpetually had one of the oldest teams in baseball. Dusty also does have a knack for getting older players to overachieve. Between the favorable conditions I mentioned, and the fact he had the steroids version of Bonds, he was able to have some success.

 

The problem is that the Cubs were not a team like that and were never going to be a team like that. They were in a situation where they needed to break in several young players, and Dusty was terrible at that. The Cubs were never as strapped for cash as the Giants and our farm system was better so we didn't have to go the route of hoping the likes of Marquis Grissom and Benito Santiago could return to prime form for a short period. Dusty's ignorance of the importance of the walk also killed us in Wrigley, and the other HR havens in the NL Central. It was a bad fit from day one and it ended predictably.

[Soriano12]

Dusty Baker is probably amoung the top 10 worst managers in the history of baseball.

[sethuel1]

Heyman: Dusty should get shot

fixed

[cjbucks]

Heyman: Dusty should get shot

fixed

 

 

Remind me of a bad joke:

 

What do you do when you miss your mother in law??

 

Reload man.........Shoot again!!

[J.R.]

What poor souls will be the next to bear Dusty's garbage managing? The man is poison.

[bc2k]

so because the cubs have sucked for 100 years, they shouldn't have fired dusty for sucking for two?

 

Exactly, horrible, horrible reasoning.

[NewUserName]

I think Dusty will get a job again and may be semi-successful. If things start to go wrong with a team, Dusty obviously is not the guy to straighten it out. If things are going well Dusty can help a team capitalize on their success. Though I think Dusty was a terrible manager with the Cubs. I think he was predictably not the right guy for the job. He also was not the only reason the Cubs lost 96 games last year.

He was another case of the average fan being mesmerized by a big name.