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Monday, September 13, 2004Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 22 times...Are you shitting me?
The Angels have not ruled out sticking with Aaron Sele as their fifth starter although the veteran right-hander has a 19.80 earned-run average in his last two outings.Mike Scioscia seems to have a crippling fear of real change (crippling, that is, for the Angels). Sure he's fiddled with the rotation all year (and handled it fairly well, I must admit), but we've been in this exact situation several times before, and he has failed to address it properly. Ortiz is ineffective in the fifth starter's role, so he's replaced with Sele. Sele is ineffective, so he's replaced with Ortiz. And so on, and so forth, continually running in circles, hoping for one more effective start. I have dubbed this phenomenon "Scioscia's Cycle of Suck". What it comes down to is this: both guys are a crapshoot. And you know who else is a crapshoot? Kevin Gregg is a crapshoot- and a young, promising one at that. Is there one good reason not to give Gregg at least one start? At the very least, let's continue with the cycle and put Ortiz back in there over Sele. It's only fair, and Ortiz has been the (slightly) more effective of the two. |
