Dusty Baker is the bizarro manager

Let me take you back a few years. Remember when Dusty Baker was the manager of the Cubs? Yeah, me too. It was awesome for a while, then it sucked. We began our trek down the "path of shitty" when Dusty, who had fallen madly in love with the long ball, straight avoided any use of the bunt or stolen base. We were a, uh, "big ball" club, and swinging for the fences was our game. In fairness, I will add that Dusty did have a healthy Prior and Wood, though he threw their arms out. That doesn't follow w/ the text that comes next, though.

OK. Fast forward. Remember this:


Of course you do; it happened yesterday, and many of you are still wiping the jizz out of your couch. What that video, presumably shot with a helmet cam by Michael J. Fox, didn't show, were the first two pitches of that at-bat. The Reds had runners on first and second, down a run. Dunn was batting eighth, ahead of Bako and a pinch hitter. Dusty had Dunn, who has 2 career sac bunts, trying to lay one down. Not only is that fucking stupid and insane, it was a sign from Dusty Baker! The man who never, ever wanted to bunt w/ the Cubs. Now, playing in a cracker jack stadium, Dusty is trying to move runners with Adam mother fucking Dunn. I can't believe that big idiot even got the sign.

Anyway, Dusty tried to have Dunn hit the ball 4 feet; instead, he hit it 449.

It was quite the coup pulled by the Reds to get him out of the BBTN studio.