| Time for a bash Dusty Baker thread |
Mon, 23 April 2012 11:04  |
 collect-on-tuesday
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I hope I don't jinx myself by saying this but Saturday might have been just 1 of 5 losing days since the start of bowl season I have had betting Live in game wagering. Thats because I see Maholm in trouble in the first and like a square I jumped all over Cincy once the Cubs scored. So of coarse Im watching the game with full attention and bias. Maholm kinda gets in a groove after the first and coast til I'd say the 5th maybe. Has a 5-1 lead. Brandon Phillips hits a ground ball to Brick Hands Castro at short and despite Phillips jogging down to first trying to protect his hamstring, he still manages to get aboard on the error. Someone jogging in a live game like that should not even be playing. It wasn't a cadillac run down to first, it was clear his hamstring was tight and should not be running at all. He wasnt dogging it in my opinion, he was either scared or still really sore. So then the next guy hits a ball to deep short that Castro dives to get and because Phillips is jogging to second, Castro, from the ground, shovels the ball just barely in time to 2nd for the force. Had any other player been running to second he'd been safe. Next hitter doubles. So instead of a runner scoring and now men on 2nd and 3rd with no outs and Maholm all the sudden realizing again that he sucks, its just 2nd and 3rd with one out. He gets out of the inning unharmed with full confidence. Would Cincy have won? Prolly not, but Baker didn't give his team its best chance of winning that day by playing Phillips and while that force out a second may just be one play, we all know how magnified small things can be in the coarse of an inning, game, or season.
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| Re: Time for a bash Dusty Baker thread |
Wed, 25 April 2012 10:17  |
samip25
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Here is a rehash from 2003, good old fashioned reverse racism...
In 2003, Baker was the subject of some controversy when he stated that "black and Hispanic players are better suited to playing in the sun and heat than white players." Dusty, defending his beliefs, later said, "What I meant is that blacks and Latinos take the heat better than most whites, and whites take the cold better than most blacks and Latinos. That's it, pure and simple. Nothing deeper than that."
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