jaydee

I'm not quite sure what your point is. First off, if you accuse me of assuming a rookie has no skill and that is why he fails and it is has nothing to do with Dusty. Well, aren't you doing the exact same thing - assuming the player has skill and he is failing because of Dusty? Let's look at the examples - Juan Cruz went to the Braves (an organization that hardly discriminates against rookies) and did so well that he was traded to Oakland (another team that values "young" players) and has since been demoted to AAA. Bobby Hill went to Pittsburgh and has done nothing. Hee Seop Choi went to Florida and than to L.A. and has never developed. If you want to argue that Dusty "killed their confidence" then go a head, but it is a stretch. By the way, how quick are you (or anybody else) to "credit" Dusty for turning Lee in to a MVP type player or turning an average Ramirez in to an All-Star? The problem is that Dusty can never get a fair break - if a player succeeds or the team wins it is because of their talent and if the player fails or the team loses it is because of Dusty. What exactly has Dusty done to help Ramirez or Lee get better? I would like to hear it. And yes I "assume" they have skill because baseball "talent evaluators" and "scouts" said they did.. that is about as good as reason as one can have in the case of a young player. And why would a player suddenly put everything back together mentally just because he was traded? It really isn't that easy. I suppose of Ankiel was traded to Atlanta, he would of suddenly put it back together? And you said it is a stretch to say Dusty killed their confidence? How is it a stretch? saying something doesn't make it true.

over Lee...says so because the cardinals are the best team in the NL. Well, if the MVP has to come from the best team, who is the MVP of the AL? Jermaine Dye, Paul Konerko, or Podsednik? I say Podsednik.

Quite you, this board is no place for talk like this. Seriously, the hypocrisy on this board is amazing. People complain Dusty refuses to play rookies over veterans just because they are rookies. The very same posters will start whining to play the rookies for no other reason than they are rookies. It's a never ending circle, "insert name of the the flavor of the month rookie can't be any worse than insert name of middle of the road veteran and Dusty refuses to play them." Then when the rookie (Dubois, Hill, Cruz, whomever) proves he isn't any better, it's on to the next fad. Baker is also horrible in handling players. Who knows how different Cruz/Hill/Dubois (your examples) would of done if their manager had had confidence in them and given them some steady playing time? Instead he jerked them around and ruined their confidence. What was Dubois supposed to think when in the first month or two he got zero playing time despite hitting well, while Hollandsworth played (horribly) simply because of the old boys ideology Baker loves? Obviously seeing that is going to have an effect on Dubois' psyche. Then when he finally gets his chance to play and starts to struggle for the first time in his MLB career, he stops getting playing time. Is that supposed too build the confidence needed to play in the top league in the world? Baker is great at ruining the confidence of young players. Dubois was not stupid. He saw that Hollandsworth played horribly and still played. He saw that when he played poorly he would not play. The same thing is happening with Perez ( a veteran, but one who has done nothing special at all in his career) and Cedeno. Baker sets the rookies up to fail, then people like you come along and say they failed simply because they don't have the skills or were not good enough. Skills aren't everything (look at guys on the cubs recently - Hawkins, Wood...) when it comes to succeeding in baseball.

in regards to dusty's managerial skills... "In the space just off the field of play there really is no level of incompetence that won't be tolerated..."

i like the guy screaming at the ump on wgn.

macias is worthless. and aramis ramirez needs to get at least a small tolerance for pain...

Corey on being sent down: I believe that those two quotes shows you the difference in maturity level between Dubois and Patterson. Dubois is looking at it half-full, and WANTS to improve his game to get back to Chicago, whereas Corey Patterson is looking at it half-empty, and he prolly feels he doesn't "deserve" to be sent to AAA. I honestly believe Corey is in AAA for quite awhile, to be honest, or he won't be with the organization after the trade deadline. His attitude, right now, STINKS to high heavens. C'mon. The guy just got sent down -- he might not have even known about it yet. How do you know his attitude is terrible? Because he didn't want to talk about getting demoted. Gimme a break. You ever get dressed down at work? Would you want to talk the media about it? Why does everything that Corey says or does get dissected to the nth degree? Give it a rest. I think its funny how every nobody in chicago thinks they know what Corey's attitude is because they watch the games on TV. you do not know the person. MAYBE if you knew him you would know his attitude to baseball, but you don't so stop speculating everyone. It is really lame

well, the cubs are not in the wild card race first of all. second, maybe if baker/hendry had hired a real batting coach for the first time since baker came here, they wouldn't have to send a player to the minors to work on his swing. I find it funny that all the truly good baseball people in this organization work in the minors

i think he will do similiar to whawt gil meche did the season he came back from a shoulder injury

Why? He is better offensively and defensively at SS than Tejada. miguel has intangibles. when he won the mvp, his team didnt finish last. were those intangibles named zito, hudson, and mulder? :wink:

jeter has never and will never play gold glove defense. the most common thing heard on yankees broadcasts is "and past a diving jeter"

smoooooth mitre...

Why? He is better offensively and defensively at SS than Tejada.

Jeter is not a good fielding SS. Arod has a good point.

they are going nowheres so fast they could still easily win the wild card

poor managing

Let the wizards win their first playoff series ever, or whatever. Their organization is one of the worst in sports history, and might as well not exist. Their team has no chance of winning a single game against Miami, much less getting any better next year. They have never won anything, and never will. Bulls 6 championships....wizards 0

is it possible for a person to be uglier than gilbert arenas? on a side note, either of these teams would be swept by miami anyways.

If you say it enough times, it's true. i guess. Kind of like Kobe being a better shooter than MJ..... Still, Nocioni has only been called dirty by the pistons, whose coach is probably still angry that he had the most talented team in the tournament and got 3rd while Nocioni's team got 1st....whatever.

what is with this announcer, who has said nocioni is dirty 500 times? How is he dirty?

oh my god, a foul on the wizards. I guess miracles can happen.

nba refs by far the worst refs of all professional leagues, and proving it today!

officials better step it up.

its 10 games into the season and you think it a shoe in that he will stick? .......

Brown is just angry that Nocioni and Argentina actually played basketball, not streetball, in the olympics. Brown tried to blame everyone but himself for the olympic loss. The guy is a classless moron.