Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Leave Big Z alone

Cub fans are booing their players again. Jaques Jones has been a target since last year, Sammy Sosa before him but the latest mark is stud pitcher/batter Carlos Zambrono. What a bizzare year he has had- from allowing White Sox to actually beat him and other losses the first 1/3 of the season, back to his usual dominating self for the next third, and now terrible again.

I wouldn't boo. No matter how bad he's doing rite now, he's still the teams dominant ace when he's on. He's way too important for the staff to go into too long a funk. The incident in his latest start shouldn't be too overblown-a bad game, yes, in the midst of a bunch of bad games- but he remains the best pitcher on a pretty good staff.


H has had this type of blow up before. From what I've noticed, he usually gets over his pout and performs well. My guess is that his next start will be a return to form. Cheer him, he probably's deserves it.

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