Burnitz finally retires

[NCCubFan]

I'll never understand how Dusty could justify giving Burnitz 155 starts in 2005. He just had to have that .757 OPS in the lineup every stinkin day.

 

I'll never understand how Hendry could justify going into 2005 with the OF he had, which pretty much guaranteed Burnitz would get a ton of playing time.

He was, uh, hamstrung by the sosa situation. Which is why we had to have Burnitz instead of Beltran.

 

Or something like that.

 

Yeah but we had this dude named Matt Murton who could have used some more starts but Dusty just had to play Burnie damn near every day. It was like Burnie was some indispensable superstar and not a washed up geezer who wasn't going to be on the team the next season. No way did he need or deserve to get 155 starts.

 

Wasn't this the year where we were all pleading for DuBois?

Yes it was. Murton was in the minors for most of the season in 2005.

[A New Era]

I thought it was more like this. .

 

http://www.doubledogmusic.com/images/2005/jeromy_burnitz.jpg

http://www.moah.org/exhibits/archives/movies/images/popeye.jpg

 

Nobody you say looks like Popeye looks even remotely like Popeye in any form.

 

I don't know. I think Burnitz kinda looks like robin williams' popeye.

 

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_movie/popeye_02.jpg

[Electron Blue]

His Cubs career was iffy, but I'll always love him in Cheers reruns . . .

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/805000/images/_807769_woody_300.jpg

[BigSlick]

I'll never understand how Dusty could justify giving Burnitz 155 starts in 2005. He just had to have that .757 OPS in the lineup every stinkin day.

 

I'll never understand how Hendry could justify going into 2005 with the OF he had, which pretty much guaranteed Burnitz would get a ton of playing time.

He was, uh, hamstrung by the sosa situation. Which is why we had to have Burnitz instead of Beltran.

 

Or something like that.

 

Yeah but we had this dude named Matt Murton who could have used some more starts but Dusty just had to play Burnie damn near every day. It was like Burnie was some indispensable superstar and not a washed up geezer who wasn't going to be on the team the next season. No way did he need or deserve to get 155 starts.

 

I don't think we got Murton until halfway through 2005? At least thats what I thought.

[NCCubFan]

I don't think we got Murton until halfway through 2005? At least thats what I thought.

He wasn't called up to the majors until then, but we got him in 2004 in the Nomar Garciapparra trade.

[frostwyrm]

I'll never understand how Dusty could justify giving Burnitz 155 starts in 2005. He just had to have that .757 OPS in the lineup every stinkin day.

 

I'll never understand how Hendry could justify going into 2005 with the OF he had, which pretty much guaranteed Burnitz would get a ton of playing time.

He was, uh, hamstrung by the sosa situation. Which is why we had to have Burnitz instead of Beltran.

 

Or something like that.

 

Yeah but we had this dude named Matt Murton who could have used some more starts but Dusty just had to play Burnie damn near every day. It was like Burnie was some indispensable superstar and not a washed up geezer who wasn't going to be on the team the next season. No way did he need or deserve to get 155 starts.

 

Wasn't this the year where we were all pleading for DuBois?

Yes it was. Murton was in the minors for most of the season in 2005.

He came up on July 8th and played very little until mid-September. Meanwhile old man Burnie continued to start almost every game. Would've much preferred to see Murt get some of those starts, or anybody else who wasn't washed up and who already had his bags packed.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/gamelog?statsId=7597&year=2005

[CubColtPacer]

I'll never understand how Dusty could justify giving Burnitz 155 starts in 2005. He just had to have that .757 OPS in the lineup every stinkin day.

 

I'll never understand how Hendry could justify going into 2005 with the OF he had, which pretty much guaranteed Burnitz would get a ton of playing time.

He was, uh, hamstrung by the sosa situation. Which is why we had to have Burnitz instead of Beltran.

 

Or something like that.

 

Yeah but we had this dude named Matt Murton who could have used some more starts but Dusty just had to play Burnie damn near every day. It was like Burnie was some indispensable superstar and not a washed up geezer who wasn't going to be on the team the next season. No way did he need or deserve to get 155 starts.

 

Wasn't this the year where we were all pleading for DuBois?

Yes it was. Murton was in the minors for most of the season in 2005.

He came up on July 8th and played very little until mid-September. Meanwhile old man Burnie continued to start almost every game. Would've much preferred to see Murt get some of those starts, or anybody else who wasn't washed up and who already had his bags packed.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/gamelog?statsId=7597&year=2005

 

As far as I know, Murton hasn't played any RF at all but just LF. Burnitz didn't play any LF at all that year, so he didn't block Murton whatsoever. Plus, when do you pack it in for the season? The team was in the Wildcard race as of mid-August and still had an outside shot a few days into September with 7 games against the wild card leader coming later that month.

 

Edit: Personally, I would agree that even if the team was in the race Murton would have helped the cause out if he played more, but part of that is hindsight about how well he ended up doing in September and this past year.