According to Wikipedia.... The straight man is a stock character in a comedy performance, especially a double act, sketch comedy, or farce.[1] When a comedy partner behaves eccentrically, the straight man is expected to maintain composure. The direct contribution to the comedy a straight man provides usually comes in the form of a deadpan. So yes. He was a great straight man to me at least. He had a dry sense of humor that played well with me in relation to his partners in the booth.
Dana Brown is not going to step in until/unless the team makes the playoffs. Dusty is not his and has much more credibility with the organization (and MLB in general) since they won a WS with him last year and have had 3 out of 3 very good seasons. Brown needs to just let this play out and not offer Dusty a contract next year but but give him the retirement of all retirement parties on "Dusty Baker Day" early next year.
Anyone excited about the lineup today? Should be a solid one. Altuve 2B Breggy 3B Yordan DH King Tuck RH Diaz C Chas LF Singleton 1B Pena SS Jake CF
This is maybe the 3rd time all season we have had this combo (minus Abreu), but the other 8 bats together. That's sad.
Tampa now 41-41 (an entire half season of baseball) in their last 82. I think they will miss the playoffs.
Think Abbot from “Abbot and Costello” Dean Martin in his movies with Jerry Lewis Think Jason Bateman in “Arrested Development” Carl Reiner too (with mel brooks) Astros gonna win today.
I hope you're right but I fear we've got several more years of the Dusty Maldonado show coming.... Edit: This dude once had either Kerry Wood throw 141 pitches in a game. Going back through years of articles, the complaints about Dusty Baker through the years are always the same and still exist to this day.
Dubon can hit LHPs so replacing an unknown like Singleton with him is a lot different than playing Dubon over 2 Top 25 hitters versus LHPs that are also better defensive CFs (at least in range which is needed a lot more often than arm strength).
