Larussa is as much to blame for cheating as Kenny Rogers! He should have been
beside himself in game 2, belligerent even! But no, he's out there with a ho hum attitude like "hey lets just wipe that pine tar off before anyone else notices". News flash Larussa....your dumb ass was the last person on earth to find out about it! Kenny Rogers could have been strip searched on national TV and I would not have cared....I may not have looked, but I wouldn't have cared. That is complete and total disrespect to the Cardinals team, fans, and Organization as a whole and you can best believe the guys in that clubhouse feel the same way. This is the type of thing that has plagued the Cardinals in every post season they have been in. I was not good enough to play in the major leagues but I did play baseball in College and High School and I don't know about your experience in sports but to me getting through the season was not as hard as playing ball in the post season.
What I mean by that is that the regular season is mostly all based around the player's talent and the team with the most talent goes to the post season. In the post season though it comes down to who has the best coach. Which coach can motivate and inspire his team to perform at their fullest potential. Which coach has payed enough attention to his team to know when, where, or what situation to put what player in. Larussa hasn't been able to do this ever!
Larussa has had arguably some of THE BEST teams in baseball dating back to when he managed the A's and how many World Series has he won!?!?!?! 1? Come on....This man clearly puts himself before the team always! He wants the limelight....he wants to be the biggest star on his team!
Don't even get me started with the Ozzie Smith thing, or the Mark McGwire thing, or the Boston Red Sox(sweep) thing. Larussa seems to act like there was no such thing as the St. Louis Cardinals until he got here which is disrespectful in itself.
While I root for "THE CARDINALS" faithfully, I sometimes wish they would just lose, lose, lose until the organization decides to get rid of that bum Larussa. Let me know your thoughts.
Oh and here is what they are saying about this Kenny Rogers debacle in today's St. Louis paper:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/DFB2ECBF0029AC33862572110012F0D9?OpenDocument
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Okay as far as Larussa goes. I agree he has some very questionable managing. He manages like a "lawyer". He can equate a number to everything he does as far as putting players in a certain position. The thing that he does not seem to take into account is that players are human. You can not simply plug someone into a situation based mainly on numbers, Or take someone out of a situation based on numbers. Now in saying that, Larussa has been lucky to manage for owners who have been able to provide him the players he needs to win during the season. Are there better managers out there? YES.
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