Well, Lou's well-timed blow-up yesterday might earn him a couple days off. According to a Yahoo Sports article, he is out indefinitely. I do not think this is an entirely bad thing. Makes him a bit of a martyr to the players, since it was basically a fairly normal tirade (par for the course). It can accomplish his goal of rallying the team and hopefully gives them a new focus in a very tangible way (not having their skipper).I think the article overlooked something pretty major. The article describes the tirade, but burries the reason he will be gone in the third paragraph, bumping the ump. You can't do that. Lou is not being suspended for kicking dirt or throwing his hat. Contact with an umpire will get you tossed and suspended for sure. But like I said, I'm not sold that it is a bad thing.
Also of note is that the savior, our top minor league prospect, Felix Pie has been recalled by the big club. Daryl Ward is out on the 15-day with a hip issue.
3 comments:
Good call TT. Just going postal does not automatically motivate a team but let’s look at the problem. My Cubbies aren't playing fundamental baseball. We have way to many base running errors, fielding error, throwing errors, hitting errors etc. These mistakes are costing W's. Barrett lets a ball get by him and then makes a throwing error to 3rd. Someone should bust him in the lip for that! Z was right to point toward his head. GET IN THE GAME!
As a former little league coach the first thing you teach on defense is "what am I going to do if it's hit to me". Base running is the same. Make that ball go thru the infield before committing yourself. We look like a little league team.
Good teams don't make fundamental baseball errors and good fundamental baseball wins games! Lots of games! They say its a game of inches and that’s right. Little things do win or in this case, lose games.
The story here should be "get in the game or we're gonna bust you in the lip!". Give em hell LOU !
TT: Is that Farmsworth in the smaller pic on your earlier article? Refresh my memory on the details of that incident. All I remember is he was a brawler.
I'm just glad Zambrano landed some punches. It is good to see his location and command finally come around.
The Farnsworth incident was against the Braves and Kyle threw inside on a batter. The batter (Paul Wilson) took offense and started walking towards the mound. He dropped his bat, then Farnsworth tossed down his glove. Kyle ran at the guy and football-style tackled him to the ground. Once he was down, Farnsworth wailed on Wilson till they peeled Kyle off. Wilson came up with a bloody nose (it wasn't broken, was it?) and a jersey full of blood stains. Farnsworth got 1 game less than Lou did this week. Photo.
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