The Baseball Chick

(Hanley Ramirez. Hey Hanley, Don't Point To God, He Doesn't Like You Either)

It’s a sad, shitty world we live in where self-aggrandizing little jerkoffs like Hanley Ramirez can continue to live, make bank, and play well only when they feel like it, while great men like Roberto Clemente die in plane crashes while on their way to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua.

Maybe Hanley should save the attitude for when he actually brings a team to the playoffs.   He sounds like he’s quickly becoming one of those players that coaches and teammates call a “cancer to the team.”  Winning teams don’t bring cancers into their clubhouses. Enjoy your career with the Marlins/Nationals/Mariners/Indians/Rangers/Royals/Pirates, buddy.

According to Sports Illustrated:

… after Ramirez failed to hustle after a ball he accidentally kicked into the left-field corner as two runners scored in a 5-1 Diamondbacks victory and then failed to apologize, Gonzalez made no excuses for Ramirez.He took a couple public potshots at his manager and one at his less talented teammates, who also are said in the past to have resisted revealing their negative feelings regarding the team’s best player. According to other Marlins people, Gonzalez was especially incensed about Ramirez’s attacks on the teammates, characterizing the situation to other people as Ramirez “throwing his teammates under the bus.”

Ramirez bolted out of the clubhouse on Monday. But the next day, in response to whether he intended to apologize for failing to hustle, Ramirez said to Marlins writers, “For what? We’ve got a lot of people dogging it after ground balls, and they don’t apologize.”

Things worsened from there, believe it or not, as he issued what seemed to be a sarcastic challenge to the rest of the team. An apology now may require a lot more time, as Ramirez appeared to suggest that his teammates are not in his league. True or not, that’s not something a good teammate should say aloud.

Playing off Gonzalez’s remark from a day earlier about the Marlins having “24 (other) guys busting their butt,” Ramirez told Marlins writers, “We’ve got 24 more guys out there. Hopefully, they can do the same things I do.”

(Ken Macha)

According to Yahoo!Sports, Ken Macha, the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers, is one of the managers on the hot seat already this season.  Seeing as the Brewers are well below .500 and have lost six in a row, I cannot say I am surprised.  However, it is a sure thing that the Brewers will be mediocre year-in and year-out.  I don’t know how it happens, since any team with Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun shouldn’t be so damn average, but they make sure they finish around third or fourth in the NL Central almost every year.  Few things are so constant.  The sky is blue, water is wet, and the Brewers don’t win.

And well, this season is no different, thanks to pitching staff second only to the Diamondbacks in overall horrendous-ness.  I fail to see why any of the pitchers below can still get work in the majors.  Trevor Hoffman has a 11.08 ERA,  LaTroy Hawkins has a 9.26 ERA and Doug Davis has a 7.56 ERA.  Willie Randolph will be the manager by the All Star break, or sooner.

Now, who the fuck is going to the store to pick me up a case of Pabst?  A six pack is not near enough to carry me through a full night of postseason hockey mayhem.