The Josh Innes Show - Unwoke Jamokes: Stop Blaming Dusty

Episode Date: November 2, 2022

Hello! Jilly was looking at social media at saw some dopes who were pissed at Dusty for not pulling McCullers early in the game. Dusty is at the very bottom of the Game 3 blame list. But, there's a group of Astros fans who know no other way to justify a loss than to blame the skipper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And one more thing, all right? Forgot to get into this. I'm really annoyed by these people going after Dusty as well. Like, I'm repping the Astros. I like the Astros. I want them to win. That's my 1B squad, right? But it's okay to say that some of the people who root for the Astros

are really stupid, uneducated sports fan people who just started watching baseball a couple of years ago because the team got good. Yep, that's fair. And they, for whatever reason, I think I know the reason why it's because he's old. They don't like Dusty. He's stepdad. He took over for A.J.

Hinch, who was like the only manager these people have ever known. Therefore, they hate him anyway. And he's old and he's antiquated and he doesn't know what he's doing. And he hasn't predetermined what pitching changes he's going to make seven weeks in advance. He's not, he's just old school school he's an old school baseball guy Dusty was not the reason they lost the fucking game last night in fact Dusty had like like everybody plays a part in a loss Dusty had zero like 0.1 percent of the reason why they lost had to do with Dusty. Because it won't shock you.

As soon as the home run started flying, all of Astro's Twitter was like, oh, why is Lance still out there? Why isn't Dusty pulling him? Dusty, what are you doing? It's like the second inning. Yeah, well, just listen to the fucking broadcast. And look, John Smoltz is a dude that's a Hall of Fame pitcher, right? So John Smoltz knows what the fuck he's talking about in these instances.

They needed innings out of McCullers. Now, if McCullers gave up eight runs in the first inning, you pull him, right? It's 4-0. I guess it's just this new era of baseball and baseball fandom where you're of the belief that you must pull a pitcher in the World Series the second he shows any signs of stress. Well, that's bullshit. It's still like I still adhere to old school baseball thought process. If you've got a guy who's an elite level starting pitcher, you want him on the hill, right? You want him to pitch. Now,

Lance, I don't believe is an elite level starting pitcher. He's fine, but he has as many times as getting me gets blown up as often as he has great games. He sucked last night. It is what it is. But I think what we should be doing, instead of shitting on Dusty for not pulling him earlier, what we should do is say, hey, good job leaving him there as long as you could. They weren't hitting last night. It was 4-0 after the second

inning, right? So, like, they weren't hitting much anyway. You had to get innings out of McCullers. If you would have destroyed your bullpen for this for the rest of the series based on a game you lost 7-0, that would be an egregious managing error. And maybe if they would have climbed back into a little bit, then maybe you consider pulling them because it's a tight game.

You're like, all right, this is winnable. It wasn't winnable, though. It never got to a point where that game was winnable. They were out of it almost from the jump. They seemed disengaged. And I guess that's what Jose Urquidy does now. I forgot he existed, to be honest. And he ate some innings for you, too. He got some pitches out of it for from the jump. They seemed disengaged. And I guess that's what Jose Urquidy does now. I forgot he existed, to be honest. And he ate some innings for you, too.

He got some pitches out of it for you, so that's good. But these people, I really hate modern-day baseball fan because there's no middle ground with these people. I'm all about entertaining all of your analytics and shit because analytics, here's what analytics are, in my opinion. It's looking at data and making decisions based on data, which is not some fancy thing. It's what people have done for a hundred years. If you know that a guy has a, uh, an ERA of, of, of less than one against left-handed pitchers and his ERA is six against righties

or left-handed hitters, then you know, Hey, you know what? I'm gonna, I'm gonna make a move to this lefty to face a lefty, right? Like, data shows you that that's the right move to make. So I'm all for that. Like, it's weird that we have arguments about this and people fight over this. My issue is that you've got too many dipshits, too many stupid people out there, and all they know is the current style of baseball, which is, to me, a boring style of baseball, which is a style of baseball that

eliminates, really kind of makes the manager's job really obsolete because the manager has a lot of predetermined things like Kevin Cash for Tampa, who's got shit predetermined and you pull guys the second there's any sign of issue with them, man. Like the other night they had an old school game on, it was one of the Phillies Astros 1980 games. And Nolan Ryan is in that game into like the eighth inning. And he starts giving up some runs. They just left his ass in there. You know, like that's kind of the way things work. Now, maybe that's the wrong move. But my point is, these idiots out there, these dopes have this idea that like they've convinced themselves that Dusty is the worst. Dusty had as far as people who had something to do with the loss, Dusty Baker is at the very bottom of the blame list with Lance

McCullers Jr. being at the top. He just got his ass handed to him. And whether he was tipping pitches, whether he just didn't have it, whatever the fuck it was, Lance was at the top of it. He sucked and he should, he owns that. I would assume the top of it. He sucked. And he owns that. I would assume he owns that. He fucking sucked. That's what he said last night. Didn't think he was tipping pitches. Just thought he got his ass handed to him.

And he did. Totally fine. All good. But Dusty, like, the idea that that's where people go, that that's their thought. Immediately. Instantly, it's Dusty, Dusty. So do you believe that, like, somehow, if, I don't know,

if A.J. Hinch were the manager, that Lance McCullers doesn't give up seven runs last night? Is that what you're thinking? Is that how this works for you? You're like, oh, yeah, they wouldn't have given up five home runs if some other dipshit were in the dugout. Wouldn't have mattered. It's not.

The bats weren't hitting anyway. That's what I'm saying. They weren't hitting. Doesn't matter. The bats weren't hitting anyway. That's what I'm saying. They weren't hitting. Doesn't matter. And he was pitching like shit. So none of that matters. None of it. Like, look, Dusty's not perfect, and Dusty has a history of making some shitty decisions,

and that's why everywhere he's been they say, love the guy, but he's cost us a World Series here, here, here, and here. He's blown out this guy's arm. Like, I get that. And there are criticisms of Dusty that are completely acceptable. Everybody has criticisms that are acceptable because nobody's fucking perfect. Right? So you fuck up and people can criticize you, but people, there's a faction of Astros fans, a group of Astros fans, by and large internet dweebs, and their whole world is finding a way to blame Dusty for anything

bad that happens and like in the idea like in fact I would argue that what Dusty did last night was the right managerial move with not taking McCullers out early I mean it's obvious and letting him go out there and get his ass kicked? Fine. You saved your bullpen. That's the right move. It's not even really a debatable thing of, well, let's debate whether he made the right move or the wrong move. Like, you're not taking out a starting pitcher in the second inning because he's given up a couple of home runs. Because usually, home runs are kind of a cheap way to gauge if someone's pitching well. If a guy gives up six hits in a row, well, he's not pitching well. If a guy goes out and makes a bad pitch, guy hits a home run and it's two nothing. Okay. Shit happens. Makes another bad pitch. It's

three nothing. Shit happens, right? Home runs happen. If a guy's just getting hammered and they're hitting balls 105 miles per hour off the bat consistently, then you have to consider making a move. But once you realize that you're down four plus runs anyway uh and your offense doesn't seem to be having it going because you're getting dominated by ranger fucking suarez then you say you know what if we get back in this game great but i'm not going to sacrifice my bullpen and the possibility of winning game uh winning game four or game five over trying to to blow up my bullpen in a game that we're probably going to lose anyway. Like the fact that I'm even arguing this makes me feel like a fucking moron

because it's obvious. I'm arguing an obvious thing. There is no argument to be made for pulling Lance McCullers because he gave up a fucking home run to Bryce Harper. Like when did they want him pulled? When it was 4-0? There was no argument for that. Like you can't yank a starting pitcher who gave up a couple of home runs and just blow

everything up. That's not how it works. But these people are fucking morons and they live in this world of analytics and Astros TV broadcasts and shit where they hammer this shit on you and they shove it down your fucking throat. I'm against that. Like again, not, you're not always wrong, but in this case you are if if you're in the fuck dusty category and you're blaming dusty for this you're not only wrong but you're fucking stupid thank you