8-3: Cubs (Williams) @ Phillies (Tejeda) 6:05 CT, CSN+, 720

[NorthsideAvenger]

Dusty has to have a team meeting and go Bobby Knight on them.

 

Don't hold your breathe......DUDE.

 

Dusty seems too laid-back for that.

 

This team has quit on him. They look like they don't even care anymore. They're not covering bases, and they're making errors that first year little leaguers know not to make.

 

It's hard to be optimistic about anything when the team doesnt look like they care.

 

It makes you wonder if Baker is REALLY trying to get himself fire. He didn't downplay---he sidestepped--- the offseason article that Chicago hasn't treated him well, and was consider a town who didn't want to see a black man succeed with power. He was alledgely pining for the Dodgers jobs, even tho he has ALSO side-step this contreversy. Hendry had basically forced him into playing Cedeno, Dubois, Murton. Hendry has also force him to change his Patterson/Perez fascination, by sending Patterson down. This maybe all coincendental, but IME, it looks Baker is trying to get fired from the Cubs.

[woodprior04]

This maybe all coincendental, but IME, it looks Baker is trying to get fired from the Cubs.

 

If that's the case, he's doing a darn good job of it. Even though he tied the game, the move to leave Hollandsworth in the game was possibly the stupidest decision he's made all year. And that's saying a lot.

[genghiskhan]

It was a risky play by Rollins, but a great play.

 

Oh, I can't agree. Rollins came almost halfway down the third base line. If Barrett and Ramirez execute properly, they catch him in a rundown and take the game to extra innings. Best case scenario for Philly, IF Barrett keeps his head, is that Rollins scampers back to third base. There's something to be said for being aggressive and making things happen, but that play, with Rollins coming halfway home when the ball couldn't have been more than five feet from Barrett, was more reckless than aggressive.

 

Or simply careless, since nobody, not Rollins, Barrett, or Burrell, seems to have realized that Burrell was out by rule. The play really should have ended with Barrett smothering the baseball and all the runners going back. But Rollins made a mental mistake and then Barrett made an even bigger one.

[Wild_Cubs04]

Don't know if it was noticed or mentioned earlier in the thread, but when they showed Hollandsworthless in left field...he was yawning!!

 

Are we keeping you up?? Does the fact you're actually in the Game bore you?? If that was in fact what he was doing, it was pathetic. Barretts brainfart was just the icing on the cake..

[Cubzfan64]

Don't know if it was noticed or mentioned earlier in the thread, but when they showed Hollandsworthless in left field...he was yawning!!

 

Are we keeping you up?? Does the fact you're actually in the Game bore you?? If that was in fact what he was doing, it was pathetic. Barretts brainfart was just the icing on the cake..

 

Yah, I saw that as well - he had his head bowed down in front of him and when he lifted it up slightly he had this huge yawn working. I've yawned at inappropriate times as well, but that sure looked sad!

[Wild_Cubs04]

Don't know if it was noticed or mentioned earlier in the thread, but when they showed Hollandsworthless in left field...he was yawning!!

 

Are we keeping you up?? Does the fact you're actually in the Game bore you?? If that was in fact what he was doing, it was pathetic. Barretts brainfart was just the icing on the cake..

 

Yah, I saw that as well - he had his head bowed down in front of him and when he lifted it up slightly he had this huge yawn working. I've yawned at inappropriate times as well, but that sure looked sad!

 

Lmao, I was hopin it wasn't the Wudbeiser's I had been drinkin :lol: Glad someone else noticed that.

[LoneStarCubFan]

I suppose everyone defending Dusty has a good explanation for Remlinger pitching against Rollins (career 4 for 7 against Rem) and a bunch of left handers?

 

Who else was he going to use? I don't fault him for that. It's not like he's got a lot of great options ou there right now.

 

Dusty's only contribution to this loss is the fact that he manages the dumbest team in baseball, and one that plays with zero sense of urgency, both of those problems lay completely at the feet of the manager.

 

It's also becoming painfully evident why a lot of the pitchers on this staff would rather throw to Blanco. They can't count on Barrett to keep the damn ball in front of him in critical situations. Too many wild pitches this season have been balls he should have blocked and kept in front of him.

[WindyCity]

I suppose everyone defending Dusty has a good explanation for Remlinger pitching against Rollins (career 4 for 7 against Rem) and a bunch of left handers?

 

Who else was he going to use? I don't fault him for that. It's not like he's got a lot of great options ou there right now.

 

Dusty's only contribution to this loss is the fact that he manages the dumbest team in baseball, and one that plays with zero sense of urgency, both of those problems lay completely at the feet of the manager.

 

It's also becoming painfully evident why a lot of the pitchers on this staff would rather throw to Blanco. They can't count on Barrett to keep the damn ball in front of him in critical situations. Too many wild pitches this season have been balls he should have blocked and kept in front of him.

 

Given the batters that were coming up to start the 9th, Wuertz would have been the best choice of those arms that were still available in the pen. Even Mitre would have been a better option than bringing in Remlinger to face a fast leadoff hitter that has killed him in the past and a bunch of left-handed hitters (and we all know how well he performs against lefties).