Dusty Baker: “I’ve been getting hate mail, racial mail … all sorts of references to Barack Obama”

NBC Sports ^ | 10/04/13 | Aaron Gleeman

[Libloather]

Baker is a socialist? Who knew?

[Jonty30]

I can’t wait for him to provide all that verifiable email or letters.

[abb]

Who is Dusty Baker?

[hosepipe]

Shocking that Baker could be that dumb...
It’s cause he’s black and not cause he’s incompetent..
Maybe he’s not stupid..... just not smart..

[EBH]

I am so very tired of them constantly playing the ‘race’ card for their messiah’s failures.

[nickcarraway]

Cincinnati is crazy to fire their most successful coach in 40 years. They probably won’t be good again for 10 years.

[Rummyfan]

A couple of things come to mind...

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

And...

When in doubt, play the race card.

[nickcarraway]

90-72. Not incompetent.

[Rummyfan]

Lou Piniella got fired by the Reds too. And he’s not black...

[gitmo]

Reckon what racial mail is?

[nickcarraway]

Why did they fire Piniella? seasons of 91, 74, 90 wins?

With Baker, he had 90 wins 3 out of 4 seasons. Why would you fire that manager? They hadn't won 90 games since 1999.

[this_ol_patriot]

Actually pretty easy, 2 up on the Giants last year in the playoffs and they lost 3 at home. This year the Pirates made them look like pikers and in 2010 the Phils swept them including a no-hitter. You can’t fire the players and you can’t fire the owners so guess who gets the pop.

[nickcarraway]

90 wins is still 90 wins. Is it better for the owner that they’ll go back to 60 wins. Some owners are crazy.

[Rummyfan]

It was the Marge Schott Era. She later fired Davey Johnson because he was living with his girlfriend, urn married.

[dalereed]

Who the hell is Dusty Baker?

[Rummyfan]

... so they don’t like the idea of blacks in authority.”

BS. Frank Robinson managed in the 70s. Since then we've had Cito Gaston, Hal McRae, Willie Randolph, Felipe Alou, and Ron Washington, and that's just off the top of my head.

[this_ol_patriot]

Rumor has it that Ozzie may be coming to town.

[Joe Boucher]

Baker has a bad attitude and always has.

[this_ol_patriot]

The best I can say it’s baseball, managers don’t last long and are usually the fall guy whether it’s their fault or not, when Manual was fired this year he was the longest tenured active manager in the majors with 8 years.

[nickcarraway]

Probably a pretext, as she planned to let him go before the season. 73, 66, 85. But he made the NLCS in his final season, getting sweeped. He never got along with Schott. But he never got along with Mets ownership, or Orioles ownership, either.