Originally Posted by kutulu

I hate Russ Ortiz. He's a fat piece of shit useless pitcher and one of the worst free agent signings ever. He was doing his usual thing, walking guys, getting blown out, acting like he's suprised with the results and the DBacks pulled him from the rotation on April 23. He was actually shocked. The team made up a fake injury and shipped his ass to AAA so that he could work things out in a pressure-free environment. At the time, the team was 8-11. It was like a weight was lifted from the team. They responded by going 26-11 while he was gone.

So Monday they decided he's 'healthy' again. The team can't just hide him there so they need to bring him back. He hadn't done great in Tucson, still walking guys and pitching with a 4-something ERA but because of hte CBA, they can't just keep him there forever. Obviously, they option a rookie who went 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA to bring him back. His first start was yesterday, 6/6/6.

So what happens when Russ Ortiz comes back? Just a few minor things, one of our relief pitchers becomes the next thing in the steroids investigation and blows the case with HGH wide open, Juan Cruz, who replaced Fatty, going 3-3 with a respectable 4.41 ERA (and the ERA is inflated by one horrible start where he got one out and gave up 9 runs, so really his ERA was more like the mid 2's) goes on the DL with soreness, Brandon Webb's scoreless innings streak stops, Chad Tracy has to be removed from the game due to injury, and the team's offense goes from super powerfull to shit. Russ sucks of course, he walks 5 and gives up 3 in 5 innings. Of course, Russ didn't suck enough. He was bad enough to say he struggled but not so bad that the management won't have the balls to just hide him in long relief.

Fucking Ken Kendrick and Jeff Moorad. Back in 2004, they were right to fire Colangello but they had no business trying to run the team on their own last season. It goes to show how important a good GM is. I'm so thankfull that Josh Byrnes has come in and started making moves to save the team.

Any DBacks fans out there? If not, what players do you really hate?