Zambrano

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=103433:date=Jun 28 2010, 02:06 PM:name=Kid)-->QUOTE (Kid @ Jun 28 2010, 02:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=103389:date=Jun 28 2010, 12:43 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Jun 28 2010, 12:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=103378:date=Jun 28 2010, 11:08 AM:name=Kid)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid @ Jun 28 2010, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=103376:date=Jun 28 2010, 12:06 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Jun 28 2010, 12:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Imagine being Zanbrano. I don't mean a pitcher with his talent, I mean <i>Zambrano</i>...you know, high strung, emotional, passionate, anger issues...easily frustrated and derailed <i>and</i> talented. Now imagine being him...and pitching with this team's offense and defense to count on. What you'd get is exactly what we got.

I'm not excusing him and he sure could have smarter and called out his team on a day when he wasn't throwing BP in the first inning....but this was inevitable.

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I'm sorry but that's some apologist bullshit.
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The hell it is. What I'm saying is that if he winds up playing someplace that doesn't trigger all his infantilism, he will be successful.
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I wasn't referring to the latter part of your post. Could Zambrano do better elsewhere? Sure. Just better hope it's a team that commits no errors, because he's been showing teammates up for not making defensive plays for at least 6 years.

But I was referring to the first part of your post. "Zambrano being Zambrano" doesn't justify his behavior.
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I'm describing what I'm seeing, not making excuses for it. Dempster can cope with the Keystone Kops playing behind him. Zambrano can't. Someday, Z will be playing for a different kind of team and he's gonna win a ton of games.