Ah, Dusty . . . you old so and so

[Pushfrog98]

Someone call Dusty the "Whambulance"

calling Whine-One-One now...

[Rob]

If anybody has tickets to the June 4th Yankees - White Sox game, you need to take a "Fire Dusty" sign.

[erik316wttn]

Good to see Dusty is able to admit his mistakes and not blame others for his own shortcomings.

[Amazing_Grace]

Regarding his final season

I knew [i would be replaced] sometime after Greg Maddux was gone.We didn't reload at all when everybody got hurt. I was sort of told: 'Play the youngs, try not to overpitch [scott] Eyre and [bob] Howry and don't worry yourself to death over wins and losses.' I had never been told anything like that at any level.

 

Why didn't they just fire him and let one of the minor league guys like Quade manage the team? He would have listened to everything the GM or president told him. The way the 2nd half of last season was handled was terrible. If we would have just given up and played young guys, we would have known that Theriot was good and wouldn't have wasted money on DeRosa. Also, could have gotten Murton a few more at bats. Brutal job, MacPhail and Hendry.

 

I disagree that money was wasted on Derosa. He just needs to be used like he was in Texas. He makes a great supersub. We just need to be in position to use him that way.

 

I agree. DeRosa is still a good signing even with Theriot. He's not horribly expensive and can fill in with a good bat at several positions, most notably a right hander to platoon with Jones in RF. Knowing Theriot would start at 2b would have made Floyd more unneccessary than he already was.