He may not be working for the Cubs anymore, but the stink of Dusty Baker still lingers in the air. Remember last year, when Dusty got rid of lovely Todd Walker (yes, I'm biased) to the Pads because his favorite little pet Neifi Perez played the same infield positions? Heaven forfend that Dusty's pet not get optimum playing time! And then Todd never fit in San Diego and got traded to the A's and got cut and eventually retired from baseball this year, so we'll never be able to see his loveliness on the diamond again? Yes, I blame Dusty for all of that. Rationality need not come into this.
Turns out Dusty's pet is a juicer (stimulizer... whatever!) -- and just got himself a 25-game suspension as the first MLB player to get popped under the new drug policy.
So thanks, again, Dusty- for dropping this:
in favor of this*:
*needle used for dramatic effect, because it's scarier-looking than a little pill
on July 8, 2007 4:43 PM
Neifi was my next door neighbor in 1995. The biggest joke with him then that he wasn't 21 or 22 and was more like 30.
I'd like to have seen the Sox give Walker anothr year. at least now with DP we have some stability at 2B.
Bench players need an edge. He was just taking them so he wouldn't fall asleep.