Hey Dusty, WHat Happens when we ASSUME??

Well, I thought I heard it all out of Dusty the Master Apologist this year until I read the report on Cubs.Com yesterday talking about "trouble on the Base Paths" and almost vomitted. Can this guy get on his players, or himself about anything? He in a roundabout way found a way to blame everyone but Himself, his coaching staff and especially Corey for the botched squeeze on friday. Check it out:

--"I don't even know if he's ever been involved in a squeeze play," Baker said. "We instruct guys in Spring Training about when to leave, when to do this, when to do that. But the thing about teaching at this level, there's a lot of things that you assume that they already know and were taught.

"They might have been taught, but [they haven't been] applying it. Therefore, most of your teaching is done after a mistake. A lot of things you assume they may know until they make a mistake, and then you have to teach them then."--

I just have one question for the Penultimate Players Manager, What the f**k is spring training for? Isn't that where the coaches go over EVERYTHING so that they don't have to ASSUME anything? How can Hendry just sit there while this guy comes up with excuse after excuse. Anything short of, "Corey Messed Up" is a cop-out. Maybe they're still trying to build him up so they can trade him. But I have a feeling that GM's will be just as unwilling to trade for someone who wasn't trained properly rather than a kid who messes up a lot. Either way, it points out the glaring reality that Dusty, all coaches in charge of Defense/Baserunning, and KKorey need not be invited back to Arizona next spring.