"Sooner Than Later, Fire Robin Ventura"
A Tim Baffoe Joint...
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/05/31/ ... n-ventura/Before we get into it, you tell me if this reads like it was written by someone at Bleacher Report circa 2011, a.k.a. a 5th Grader:
"It was a bunt that finally broke me.
In the seventh inning of the Chicago White Sox’s seventh loss in a row Monday and their 15th of their last 19 games, the team’s No. 3 hitter in Melky Cabrera came to the plate with two runners on and handed the New York Mets a free out.
Maybe the bunt didn’t directly lose the White Sox a game that they felt destined to lose with Matt Harvey rediscovering his dominance against tough-luck Jose Quintana. Hell, thebunt worked in theory — the runners moved over a base — but it’s just a proven flawed theory in 21st-century baseball. The White Sox didn’t score, yet they might have had they that extra out. A managerial choice decreased the team’s chances of scoring in a close game, which decreased their chances of winning.
That’s emblematic of the little choices made by Robin Ventura that add up on a long enough timeline to equal a manager who’s not fit to captain a ship that can make the postseason but may not because of a bunt call here and a call to the bullpen there.
Until the holiday weekend, I had been fairly neutral regarding Ventura, believing he isn’t anything special but maybe too often the unfair object of fan derision. Not anymore. If this White Sox team is a playoff one, it’s without Ventura.
And that choice to fire him needs to be made sooner rather than later, lest the responsibility for this mess starts moving upward.
Jimmy Rollins isn’t a major leaguer anymore, but Ventura likes to think of him as his No. 2 hitter who hopefully only has baseballs hit within five feet of him in either direction at shortstop. Bunts will continue to be called in counterproductive situations despite having a general manager supposedly brought in a progressive baseball approach. The bullpen will continue to be mismanaged."Typos, run-on sentences, it got to be too much, so I ended reading here.