Zambrano

[Butcher]

<!--quoteo(post=116402:date=Oct 6 2010, 01:08 PM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ Oct 6 2010, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=116398:date=Oct 6 2010, 12:57 PM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Oct 6 2010, 12:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=116397:date=Oct 6 2010, 12:55 PM:name=BT)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BT @ Oct 6 2010, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=116394:date=Oct 6 2010, 12:51 PM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Oct 6 2010, 12:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->The outcome (in either direction) doesn't justify the decision.

If Lou pinch hit Marshall for Ramirez in a game-on-the-line RBI situation and Marshall hit a grand slam, that doesn't make it the right decision.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


No, it wouldn't. But it would also be odd if you were still upset about it 5 months later.
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I'm not upset about it at all.

Give us something else to talk about and let's move on.
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What I'm saying is that not only are you acting like moving Z out was as crazy as pinch hitting Marshall, but also that it blew up in the Cubs face. You are acting as if it was indefensible, and it wasn't, and you are acting as if it was a disaster, and it wasn't.

In the end, it worked out for the Cubs about as well as you could have (reasonably) hoped. They now have 4 tradeable assets, whereas before they had 3 at best, and more likely 2. Z ended up finishing the year with one of, if not his best stretch ever, Silva ended up not terrible, Gorzellany ended up with pretty good numbers, and Wells didn't end up in the bullpen.
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It was indefensible.

But I'm no longer upset about it.