There were some people, although I refused to be friends with them at the time, who thought the hiring of Dusty Baker was a good idea because he was a ‘winner’. They thought what happened in Chicago with Prior and Wood was a ‘coincidence’ because of ‘bad mechanics’. How are you guys feeling now that we still suck and have our ace coming into the year for 3 years running heading to an MRI table had being absolutely abused by Crustball?

         IP	H	BB	K	ER	ERA	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	K/9
Pre SD	74.7	73	18	63	29	3.50	1.21    8.79	2.16	7.59
Post SD	44.3	63	15	36	36	7.30	1.75	12.78	3.37	7.30

Harang was used on 2 days rest in San Diego to throw 63 pitches. Then 4 days later he was started on short rest and was beaten around like a rented mule. In a span of 7 days, Aaron Harang had thrown 240 pitches in 3 different games. Thanks Crustball. Bob Castellini, way to be a moron and hire a freaking idiot to manage your baseball team. Between on base percentage being overrated, to sac bunting a thousand times a year, to ruining starting pitchers to all of this losing that is happening thats what you should have expected to happen from a manager who doesn’t know anything about baseball other than he was athletic enough to play it at one point and had the great luck of having the best player in the history of the game through his true prime and then his artificially enhanced prime. The Reds suck right now and are being led by an ownership group without a clue and a manager with even less of a clue who coupled with his ‘pitching coach’ (who sucks at his job so much so that whenever 40% of his rotation needs help they call in Mario Soto to work with them) are taking this team down the tube faster than Tunguska went up about a hundred years ago.

I have hated this hire from day 1. I was literally sick when I heard the news. Today, I feel no better than I did then and I almost want to become a Tampa Bay Rays fan or an Arizona Dbacks fan. If Harang ends up undergoing Tommy John surgery, who should be surprised? No one that took the time to look at the history of our manager…. so I hope you enjoy spending all of that money Bob, because its your fault.