10-07-2010, 12:08 PM
<!--quoteo(post=116541:date=Oct 7 2010, 11:06 AM:name=Dirk)-->QUOTE (Dirk @ Oct 7 2010, 11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=116522:date=Oct 7 2010, 08:25 AM:name=veryzer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (veryzer @ Oct 7 2010, 08:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I'm a head custodian.
My boss comes up to me and says, "We're closing your school. We're gonna keep you on, but you won't be a head custodian anymore, just a regular custodian. Not your fault, you did a good job, but there's no room for another head custodian job."
That my friends is a demotion. Not a punishment, but a demotion. There's a difference.
Zambrano was demoted.
And like Butcher said, had he not been demoted (which he was), all that shit that happened mid-season, most likely wouldn't have happened.
No Zambrano tanking in the bullpen.
No Zambrano tanking after he got put back in the rotation.
No Zambrano meltdown.
No media frenzy.
And given how he pitched at the end of the year, it's safe to say he would've have won a few of the games that Gorz and Wells and Silva were losing.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In all fairness, I don't think it's a stretch to say Zambrano could have easily had a meltdown, demotion or not. I don't really think the demotion caused his meltdown at all.
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I agree. I would say that Zambrano's meltdown was a result of his strugles on the mound, which were the cause of the demotion, not the other way around.
My boss comes up to me and says, "We're closing your school. We're gonna keep you on, but you won't be a head custodian anymore, just a regular custodian. Not your fault, you did a good job, but there's no room for another head custodian job."
That my friends is a demotion. Not a punishment, but a demotion. There's a difference.
Zambrano was demoted.
And like Butcher said, had he not been demoted (which he was), all that shit that happened mid-season, most likely wouldn't have happened.
No Zambrano tanking in the bullpen.
No Zambrano tanking after he got put back in the rotation.
No Zambrano meltdown.
No media frenzy.
And given how he pitched at the end of the year, it's safe to say he would've have won a few of the games that Gorz and Wells and Silva were losing.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
In all fairness, I don't think it's a stretch to say Zambrano could have easily had a meltdown, demotion or not. I don't really think the demotion caused his meltdown at all.
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I agree. I would say that Zambrano's meltdown was a result of his strugles on the mound, which were the cause of the demotion, not the other way around.