Fire Gardy

There has to be some reason, some event or series of events in Gardy’s past, that he continues to play “scrappy” (read: all glove, negative bat) players instead of more qualified, well rounded players.  Well, I think I have figured it out.  In Gardy’s brief stint with the Mets he was basically Nick Punto, except his manager was good and never let him play.  He was always a defensive sub and emergency fill-in at several positions. This type of player is very important on a team when used correctly.  I think deep down Gardy resents the fact that he wasn’t good enough to be an everyday player, and despises the good players who started over him.  He is now living vicariously through P*%$oand trying to recapture the ABs he never got as a player.  Now promising young players like Casilla, and Brandon Harris will lose time at the  middle infield positions because Punto will steal their ABs.  This is like when you were in little league and you had to sit on the bench or play that crappy 4th outfield position because the coach wanted to let his son start at a key defensive position and bat high in the lineup even though he has no business being on the field.

 I want to bring up an important point to the readers here at firegardy.com.  Some people have been complaining about the signing of Adam Everett, stating that he is just like Nick Punto.  The one thing that makes him an asset rather than the liability that Punto is, is his ability to make productive outs, such as bunting, moving runners over, etc.  Punto brings a great glove that will help the team, and a bat that will help the opposing team.  On the flipside, Everett brings the same, if not better, glove, and a bat that will help his team.   Also, some of those plays that Punto makes are probably easier than they look.  Just because he runs hard after a foul pop doesn’t mean he is a great defender. A great defender makes hard plays look easy, he doesn’t make easy plays look hard. That might be a sign of a bad defender.

Gardy has floated the idea of playing Cuddyer in center. This is bad for many reasons, I will highlight a few.

1) Cuddyer has spent two years learning how to play the wall in right, so why move him thus having a sub-par defender in center and right.

2) Cuddyer does not have the range or athleticism to cover center.

3) Moving Cuddyer to center and having Young and Kubel at the corners makes for a rough looking outfield.

I’m sure we will see Punto take a fair amount of reps in center during spring training.  This will not be pretty.  Gardy will take every chance he can get to give his boyfriend some ABs.  This will not translate into wins.

Ron Gardenhire, the manager of the Twins, gets quite a bit of credit for being a good manager. Here at firegardy.com, we don’t understand why.

He can’t make a lineup.

He can’t play anyone who isn’t a middle infielder.

He doesn’t understand the concept of the designated hitter.

And, worst of all, the most unforgivable thing in the world:

Nick Punto.

Here at firegardy.com, we’ll be pointing out Gardy’s repeated idiocy and explaining why he’s wrong. Hopefully this will encourage people to stop calling him “a good manager,” and encourage Wild Bill to replace him.