Here's a story by Gordo Today - We're gonna break this one down a bit...
Three years later, all Dusty Baker has to do is walk on the field to make a pitching change with his new team, and the boos rain down from the stands at Wrigley Field -- the chorus every time he emerged from the Cincinnati dugout Tuesday night.
Cubs veterans who played for him in Chicago day he doesn't deserve it.
Um, yeah, he kinda does...MAYBE 3 years is a little extreme, but, yeah....he kinda does..
''I don't really understand it. I don't know what he did to still be getting booed here,'' said first baseman Derrek Lee, whose Florida Marlins ended Baker's first-year October run with the Cubs in 2003 before he played the next three seasons under Baker.
Well Derrek - he kinda sucked - a lot and failed to keep the team from sucking and made LaTroy a closer, and played Neifi all the time, and killed Wood and Prior's arms, and you get the idea....
''It's a little disappointing,'' he added.
So was 2006...
''It wasn't his fault,'' said third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who played all four seasons with Baker in Chicago. ''I mean, nobody could manage that team we had in [2006]. We had guys coming from AA. [Carlos] Marmol was a starter. We had Juan Mateo -- you guys don't even remember him, probably. We just had a bad team, and it's not his fault.
I know A-Ram...you're so right. I mean that'd be a improbable as, oh I don't know, managing an 83 win team into a World Series title...
''If you give Dusty a good team, I guarantee, he'll be in the playoffs, too.'
If you give ME a good team, I'll get you in the playoffs...
And Lou, I might actually win a game....
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