Rant Me
by edwzipper on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 08:31am
The Milwaukee Brewers’ slide from the outside looking in has been curious. Good line-up, good bullpen, in theory solid starting pitching. With Ben Sheets hurt (as usual) though, the starting pitching has been far worse than expected (borderline awful, actually), and there have been other hiccups in terms of health.
Still, somewhat of a puzzle. Enter this rant at Baseball Think Factory (thanks for the heads up to Swamp all-timer bf hoodrich) to help fill in some of the missing pieces:
“And NOW, Yost goes after the emotional centerpiece of the team. Bill Hall has done everything but give Doug Melvin’s wife his KIDNEY. The guy played second, third, short and now centerfield. He has hit and hit and hit some more. Bill Hall was the team MVP in 2006. He spends an inordinate amount of time in the community doing charitable works. He has two somewhat tough games while the rest of the team is downright putrid and the manager has the unmitigated GALL to say this for all the public to see?!! ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME??!!! BILL HALL?? BILL HALL IS THE PROBLEM??!!
No, Ned. YOU are the godd*mn problem. You have TWO F*CKING JOBS TO DO. And you FAIL at BOTH. You methodically, and I commend you on your tremendous focus, have torn apart the pitching staff. Then, once that task has been completed, you ALIENATE the most popular guy on the club while SIMULTANEOUSLY creating racial tension. Machiavelli would have been proud. I know Doug Melvin doesn’t like to do anything in the “heat of the moment”. He also likes to let his manager, manage. But this isn’t managing. This is some grotesque performance art display of how not to handle people. This is the anti-Carnegie. Tony Robbins gone bad. This post is already way too long. But having observed this waste of skin for FAR TOO LONG I can restrain myself no further. Ned Yost needs to be relieved of his command.”
Fantastic.