Dusty and boo's coming

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

[Guest]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

"Dude, it's like this. Sometimes, when you're fishing, you have to use the right lure for the right side of the lake. You'll have one side that's sunny, so that's where you have to use the worms. The other side, in the shade is where sausages work best. So since the pitcher was throwing sausages, Lenny was the right guy to put up there."

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

"Dude, it's like this. Sometimes, when you're fishing, you have to use the right lure for the right side of the lake. You'll have one side that's sunny, so that's where you have to use the worms. The other side, in the shade is where sausages work best. So since the pitcher was throwing sausages, Lenny was the right guy to put up there."

 

awesome!

[bcl412]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

"Dude, it's like this. Sometimes, when you're fishing, you have to use the right lure for the right side of the lake. You'll have one side that's sunny, so that's where you have to use the worms. The other side, in the shade is where sausages work best. So since the pitcher was throwing sausages, Lenny was the right guy to put up there."

 

:clapping: :rotfl:

[SouthSideRyan]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

 

Which was at worst the 2nd worst Lenny Harris related move he pulled that season. I will never forgive that incompetent fool for what he did in game 1. Never.

[Guest]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

 

Which was at worst the 2nd worst Lenny Harris related move he pulled that season. I will never forgive that incompetent fool for what he did in game 1. Never.

 

Yeah, get in line.

[TruffleShuffle]

Dusty Baker hit Lenny Harris in the lead-off spot. Lenny Freaking Harris! Jesus Christ, if anyone can defend that move, I'd love to hear it.

 

Doug: Sir, if I could just take this chance to explain my disturbingly high mortality rate?

Dr. Kelso: Why don't I do that for you? You're a bad doctor.

[Guest]

He did register the account the same day Kosuke1 was banned.

 

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...

 

What did he get banned for?

[wvcbxl]

I love Dusty, I will definiately be cheering him. We would of had a Championship if he was still here.

 

Well, considering that Trachsel would have been his n°1 starter in the playoffs, you may have a point. :pig:

[Bruce Miles]

Lenny gets a mention at the end of today's column. Enjoy.

 

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=172926

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Lenny gets a mention at the end of today's column. Enjoy.

 

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=172926

 

 

Excellent!

 

I particularly liked this part.

 

Base clogging: A few years ago in spring training, I asked Dusty about the importance of walks and on-base percentage.

 

His response lives in infamy.

 

"I think walks are overrated unless you can run," he said, just warming up. "If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps, but the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time he's clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.

 

"Who have been the champions the last seven, eight years? Have you ever heard the Yankees talk about on-base percentage and walks? Walks help. They do help. But you aren't going to walk across the plate. You're going to hit across the plate. That's the school I come from."

 

And it's a school that should lose its federal funding.

[weis21]

Excellent article Bruce!

[TheDude]

between a few new people posting about this here and the link earlier in the thread, i can't help but think dusty has a street-team of some sort trying to do pro-baker revisionist history.

 

is dusty a bad person? no, he seems nice enough. is dusty a bad manager? yes.

 

It's called the RBI program (Reviving Baker's Image). Unlike the real RBI program, this one is being run by dopes.

[Abe Frohman]

Good stuff, Bruce.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

And it's a school that should lose its federal funding.

nice

[wvcbxl]

Lenny gets a mention at the end of today's column. Enjoy.

 

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=172926

 

That was a good read; thanks Bruce.

it's going to be a fun couple of days this week.

[David]

He did register the account the same day Kosuke1 was banned.

 

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...

 

What did he get banned for?

 

For being Meph

[Hairyducked Idiot]

We both agree that Dusty didn't do anything with Prior and Wood that any other manager would have done. You ride the um. . . horses, so to speak.

 

 

This argument befuddles me, because it's so easily proven wrong. "Any other manager" would do it, but not one other manager in all of baseballl chose to work any of his starters as hard as Prior and Wood were worked (in terms of pitches per start)?

[Derwood]

any other manager would not have left their young ace in a game for 140 pitches with an 8 run lead

[jersey cubs fan]

any other manager would not have left their young ace in a game for 140 pitches with an 8 run lead

 

It's tough to say whether or not "any other" would have. But the facts are that Dusty did, and he was the worst offender. It really doesn't matter if other idiots make idiotic decisions, that doesn't excuse Dusty's choices.

[gflore34]

any other manager would not have left their young ace in a game for 140 pitches with an 8 run lead

 

Seconded, Dusty' only redeeming qualities where he's Single Malt drinker - The Macallan - and some of his post games excuses for veteran players poor performance. Remember last year when he told Jacque Jones got doubled off a 2nd in Arizona because of the thin air?

[RynoHawk23]

I loved Dusty when he was here, but I do realize how bad of a manager he eventually became. I hated the fluff that he presided over - Sammy's departure, Chip & Stone, and the 2004 collapse. That stuff is hard to forget because (other than the collapse) its petty stupid crap. And from his comments of late - he still holds on to those kinds of feelings like he had no part of it or control over it.

 

I think the thing I will remember him most as - the guy that changed the "Lovable Loser" mindset. Because after the taste of success in 2003, the Cubs and the fans have never been the same. There is no more "enjoying a day at the ball park and if we lose - so what" stuff. Cubs fans are driven to win and win now. Which I like.

 

So when we win a World Series, in my opinion he deserves the credit for changing the landscape that will get us there. Whether he did it on purpose or not.

[inari]

If Don Baylor was the manager in 2003, I doubt the results would've been any different. That was an absurdly good pitching staff. If he was the manager in 2004, I bet it would've been better.

[weis21]

I loved Dusty when he was here, but I do realize how bad of a manager he eventually became. I hated the fluff that he presided over - Sammy's departure, Chip & Stone, and the 2004 collapse. That stuff is hard to forget because (other than the collapse) its petty stupid crap. And from his comments of late - he still holds on to those kinds of feelings like he had no part of it or control over it.

 

I think the thing I will remember him most as - the guy that changed the "Lovable Loser" mindset. Because after the taste of success in 2003, the Cubs and the fans have never been the same. There is no more "enjoying a day at the ball park and if we lose - so what" stuff. Cubs fans are driven to win and win now. Which I like.

 

So when we win a World Series, in my opinion he deserves the credit for changing the landscape that will get us there. Whether he did it on purpose or not.

 

If we win the world series it will be with a completely different bunch of ballplayers (except wood who pitches 2 innings every 3 games if he's lucky). Dusty deserves absolutely no credit for anything accomplished in the future.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I loved Dusty when he was here, but I do realize how bad of a manager he eventually became. I hated the fluff that he presided over - Sammy's departure, Chip & Stone, and the 2004 collapse. That stuff is hard to forget because (other than the collapse) its petty stupid crap. And from his comments of late - he still holds on to those kinds of feelings like he had no part of it or control over it.

 

I think the thing I will remember him most as - the guy that changed the "Lovable Loser" mindset. Because after the taste of success in 2003, the Cubs and the fans have never been the same. There is no more "enjoying a day at the ball park and if we lose - so what" stuff. Cubs fans are driven to win and win now. Which I like.

 

So when we win a World Series, in my opinion he deserves the credit for changing the landscape that will get us there. Whether he did it on purpose or not.

hummina, hummina, what???