For one brief and shining moment, Dusty Baker's not the dumbest manager in Chicago

I think Dusty Baker is the worst manager in the major leagues. And I still will tomorrow. He NEVER holds players accountable for not hustling or making boneheaded plays. Rather a hug and a pat on the ass. He "asked Sammy Sosa's permission" to move him down in the order. You're the manager, you donkey-clown! It's your team and you can do what you want. Unless you have no balls like Dusty Baker. He plays Neifi Perez. OK, that's bad enough. But also plays him against a right-handed pitcher when a left-handed hitter with a 100-point higher batting average is sitting on the bench. As a radio caller said, "Who cares if Neifi Perez is a switch hitter. All that means is he has the ability to be bad from both sides of the plate." Most importantly, managing a team that should institute the Little League strategy of taking the first pitch every at bat until they learn a modicum of patience, Dusty Baker says shit like this:

"I think walks are overrated unless you can run. If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run."Who's been the champions the last seven, eight years? Have you ever heard the Yankees talk about on-base percentage and walks? Walks help. But you ain't going to walk across the plate. You're going to hit across the plate. That's the school I come from. It's called hitting, and it ain't called walking. Do you ever see the top 10 walking? You see top 10 batting average. A lot of those top 10 do walk. But the name of the game is to hit."

You dumb fuck. You want as many guys on base as possible. In theory, the Cubs should be the best team in the whole league since they don't have those pesky baserunners clogging up the bases. However, this may be the most backhanded compliment ever, but Dusty Baker is at least smart enough to go on record as using homophobic slurs.

Yeah. White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen referred to shitty Chicago Sun-Times columnist and ESPN personality Jay Marriotti as a "fucking fag." On the record. http://www.suntimes.com/output/couch/cst-spt-greg212.html. I don't like Marriotti as a columnist and probably wouldn't as a person, but that's reprehensible. Guillen can insult Marriotti as much as he wants, but how hard is it to limit yourself to insults that do not insult a significant percentage of your city, country, and world. Even Hawk Harrelson, who I hope gets hit by a train today if not tomorrow, at least has the decency to call Marriotti nonsense words like "heiniebird." When Hawk Harrelson AND Dusty Baker are smarter than you, you know there's a problem.

Is it possible I'm holding a piece of information for dramatic effect? Yeah. Let me now take this opportunity to mention that the Chicago Pride Parade is THIS SUNDAY. I'm guessing that the White Sox aren't sponsoring a float this year. I wonder if Ozzie Guillen is planning to skip Sunday's game and go heckle the participants. Personally, I think Ozzie should have to be in the parade so everyone out there both marching, riding, and watching in support of gay pride and gay rights can throw shit at him.

The best, and by "best," I mean worst, part of this is that this isn't even the first time he's done it. Last summer, someone's microphone picked up Guillen calling some guy in New York who he claimed was his friend, a homosexual and a child molestor. There was a brief dust-up that quickly passed. Fans, media, and most of all, the team, let it slide like they always do. They said, "Oh, it's just Ozzie being Ozzie. He says outrageous stuff." "Outrageous" is saying Jay Marriotti should go have sex with a monkey. Calling him a "fag," once again, is reprehensible.

I've been really nice to the White Sox and their fans this season. I haven't used a nickname for the team in months. But I'd have to say that this is the epitome of trash. And you White Sox fans out there need to stand up and let Ozzie Guillen know that this shit is unacceptable. Bring signs to the game saying so. Boo the hell out of him. Let him know that the world is not his playground and that not everyone will bow down and kiss his ass while he spits on others. I don't see this is being any different from the John Rocker situation. As I was saying earlier this morning, he's not saying this by accident. It's his choice and one he's made more than once. So if everyone just ... pardon the expression, bends over and takes it, then y'all really won't just be rooting for the White Trash, you'll be it.