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I swear, I am not making up this part of the article, quoting Baker about something that happened near the end of his managerial tenure with the Cubs:

"At the very end, somebody took a dump right where I stood in the dugout every day," Baker said Monday morning. "That was the low point. The grounds crew guy cleaned it up. He said, ‘Oh, I think it’s dog crap.’ I said, ‘No it ain’t. That’s human crap.’"

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I don't care who it was.

It is just wrong to do that!

"I lof to hit de home ron!"

by Tekboy on Feb 22, 2011 1:43 PM CST reply actions  

oh crap!

It could have been a goose…they take huge dumps. who the heck could have gotten into Wrigley unseen to do that?

"Well-behaved women seldom make History"---Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

by cooliogirl47 on Feb 22, 2011 1:47 PM CST reply actions  

I don't feel sorry for him at all

And I don’t care.

"It's all in the game, yo"

by Worf on Feb 22, 2011 1:47 PM CST reply actions   1 recs

you forgot "nyah, nyah"...

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by ballhawk on Feb 23, 2011 9:19 PM CST up reply actions  

I think it was Neifi

when love affairs go wrong, bad things happen

"It's all in the game, yo"

by Worf on Feb 22, 2011 1:48 PM CST reply actions  

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuure that happened.

Jesus man, you won the division last year. You were a bad manager who took a sure World Series trip in 03 and peed it down you leg. You got fired.

You got a job for an organization that is (finally) being run better than the club you were fired from. Get the EFF over it.

"Oh Crap"
-Famous Last Words by General George Custer

by BoVandy on Feb 22, 2011 1:51 PM CST reply actions  

While I agree that Dusty should generally get over it ...

I don’t think he’s making this particular story up. Seems too weird. Just my opinion.

by elgato on Feb 22, 2011 2:21 PM CST up reply actions  

I think Dusty is a bit weird :)

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by cooliogirl47 on Feb 22, 2011 2:23 PM CST up reply actions  

Oh, definitely.

But I don’t think that’s something you make up.

by elgato on Feb 22, 2011 2:25 PM CST up reply actions  

not to make a thing of this but...

I dont think he made it up, just formed a strange conclusion about it.

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by cooliogirl47 on Feb 22, 2011 2:28 PM CST up reply actions  

And my opinion is that Dusty desperately wants to be perceived as a victim during his time here

Why is this the first anyone has heard of this incident? Why wouldn’t a story about someone taking a dump right where he stood have been reported over the last four or five years.

I just don’t buy it. There may have been poop, it was probably animal feces. I think over the years, he has become ever more sure that it was human waste.

"Oh Crap"
-Famous Last Words by General George Custer

by BoVandy on Feb 22, 2011 4:22 PM CST up reply actions  

OK, I can see THAT.

But a story out of thin air? I don’t see it.

by elgato on Feb 22, 2011 4:26 PM CST up reply actions  

Well, I would still say I don't understand why if he was so sure this happened

why it took him five years to tell this story. Lord knows he’s whined and moaned about all the other supposed injustices that have happened to him. I have a hard time believing this story “slipped his mind”

"Oh Crap"
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by BoVandy on Feb 22, 2011 4:29 PM CST up reply actions  

It's an excellent question.

But I don’t think he completely made this up.

by elgato on Feb 22, 2011 4:30 PM CST up reply actions  

your sig line goes well with this post :)

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by cooliogirl47 on Feb 22, 2011 2:24 PM CST up reply actions  

Maybe...

…Bartman dropped another one?

by Tat14 on Feb 22, 2011 2:37 PM CST reply actions  

I think he is making this shit up....

Maybe it was Prior for ruining his career?

It would be cool if there was pieces of Sosa’s busted boombox in it….

by TJ11 on Feb 22, 2011 2:49 PM CST reply actions  

OK - who had Peanuts at the ball park?

fess up.

"Easy on the words, brother,'' Quade said.

by RiskyBusiness on Feb 22, 2011 2:58 PM CST reply actions  

Or, to quote that "dead-sexy being"...

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by Easy Ed on Feb 22, 2011 3:40 PM CST up reply actions  

Get in my Belly!

"Easy on the words, brother,'' Quade said.

by RiskyBusiness on Feb 22, 2011 4:19 PM CST up reply actions  

And...

“Where’s Dusty’s spot in the dugout? I’ve got a turtle-head poking out.” – Fat Bastard

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by Easy Ed on Feb 22, 2011 5:02 PM CST up reply actions  

I don't even know how to react to this.

On the one hand, it’s really hard to believe a human being would do that. On the other, I don’t see why or how Dusty would or could make something like that up. Are players even allowed to bring their dogs into the dugout and on the field? Really weird.

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by daver on Feb 22, 2011 3:14 PM CST reply actions  

I think if they would have sent it away for analysis...

…they’d have found little toothpick pieces in it. The man is just holding a grudge. 5 years later and he brings it up now? Was it Lou marking his new territory?

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by Easy Ed on Feb 22, 2011 3:30 PM CST reply actions  

Dusty need serious help.

At this point he’s just making things up. We are supposed to believe someone (the racists who were caling him!!!) broke into wrigley field every day and took a dump in the dugout. First I dont think anyone can dump on command like that and second i doubt its that easy just to break into wrigley every single day and go take a dump in the clubhouse. Someone should have the guts to call him out on it.

by thezonk on Feb 22, 2011 3:36 PM CST reply actions  

Somehow, someway

This will come back on Moises Alou

"Easy on the words, brother,'' Quade said.

by RiskyBusiness on Feb 22, 2011 4:20 PM CST up reply actions  

Which makes it all the more

Amazing!

P.S. I am amazed that you actually posted this. A license for crude.

"Easy on the words, brother,'' Quade said.

by RiskyBusiness on Feb 23, 2011 9:26 AM CST up reply actions  

Eh.

It was news all over yesterday. Had to at least post the link. Most people here have been pretty clean — and funny.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 23, 2011 3:00 PM CST up reply actions  

I blame the billy goat.

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by ctcoff99 on Feb 22, 2011 3:39 PM CST reply actions  

He's obviously lying. Dusty NEVER stood *anywhere* in the dugout.

If someone had taken a crap on the spot on the bench where he sat, comatose, for his entire tenure, then sure, I’d understand. Message received, phantom crapper.

But… there’s no way that Dusty stood in any particular location often enough for it to be HIS SPOT that someone could choose to defile.

Especially not in 2006. I don’t think I saw Dusty move during the 2006 season.

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by D98 on Feb 22, 2011 3:44 PM CST reply actions  

Based on what I've seen..

..from Baker over the years, using his Son as a human shield during the end of the ’02 world series and at the end of the ’03 playoffs Hiding behind charges of racism when it became expedient for him to do so. Never once did Baker produce a single piece of evidence of racism aimed at him. It leads me to believe this and everything else is made up.

by troutfishin on Feb 22, 2011 3:48 PM CST reply actions  

That's exactly my thoughts on this.

"Oh Crap"
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by BoVandy on Feb 22, 2011 4:25 PM CST up reply actions  

I can't stand Dusty. But I think it would be naive to think that a black player or manager

who runs afoul of Cub fans doesn’t face at least some racism whether it be in comments from the stands, letters written with crayon etc… The city and most of the country has come a long way since I grew up in the 60s and 70s but racism is alive and well with what is thankfully a dwindling percentage of people.

by the nth on Feb 23, 2011 12:56 AM CST up reply actions  

The way i read the article

it inferred it was a fan. If it was a ballplayer isnt that an even bigger indictment of him. You’ve really lost the clubhouse when people are literally taking a dump on you.

by thezonk on Feb 22, 2011 3:51 PM CST reply actions  

The purpose of the article is about

how there might be a romance with Quade now but the fans can turn on your quick. Case in point Dusty Baker. And then Dusty goes into his story. The author also writes this happened at the same time he ahd racist remarks said to him. So the author is inferring its the fans which is beyond ridiculous. Its just not possible for a fan to break into wrigley every day and take a dump. Security isnt that bad. You cant just jump on the field.

So if this story has any credence and it doesnt then it would have to be a player. And dusty would never tell that story because he’s supposed to be beloved by all his players. His quick to tell anyone that.

by thezonk on Feb 22, 2011 4:34 PM CST up reply actions  

You're reading something into it that isn't there.

If the writer had written about that, then sure, maybe it would be a fan. But this is a direct quote from Dusty. I don’t see how you make that inference.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 22, 2011 5:22 PM CST up reply actions  

Maybe I'm naiive.

I can’t imagine a situation where anyone would make up something this weird — and this specific. I’m not a Dusty apologist, but wow.

by elgato on Feb 22, 2011 4:10 PM CST reply actions  

I can think of many situations where someone has absolutely blown up a situation and added inaccurate details

in order to make the story more interesting. You’ve really never heard or seen that?

"Oh Crap"
-Famous Last Words by General George Custer

by BoVandy on Feb 22, 2011 4:26 PM CST up reply actions  

Well, as I said above ...

I can see him exaggerating, absolutely.

by elgato on Feb 22, 2011 4:27 PM CST up reply actions  

Let's get the grounds keepers take on the story(if he exists)

He would probably reiterate that is was nothing more than a pile of dog crap and Baker accused the dog of being racist.

by troutfishin on Feb 22, 2011 4:51 PM CST up reply actions  

We all know you did it.

GM's are in charge of Managers, not the other way around.

by shoemile on Feb 22, 2011 5:50 PM CST up reply actions  

You'd think a grounds crew member would have talked about THIS

Not buyin’ it, Dusty

"For the charming if somewhat curious branch of mankind known as Cub fans, spring is a sanguine time.. Every spring holds the blithe hope that perhaps this is the season in which Satan will grow weary and ease up on the headlock in which he has diabolically held Chicago's mightily struggling National League baseball team since 1908..." Lonnie Wheeler- "Bleachers"

by tommy veryzer on Feb 22, 2011 4:33 PM CST reply actions  

The article was more about Dusty

than about Quade. Dusty is pulling his tired old act of shifting blame. Nothing new here except the crap, which probably came out of Dusty’s vivid imagination.

by Clark Addison on Feb 22, 2011 5:08 PM CST reply actions  

I think he did it himself....

Did the poop have a bunch of ground up toothpicks in it?

by TJ11 on Feb 22, 2011 10:02 PM CST up reply actions  

I think it means he's a crappy manager.

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by dtpollitt on Feb 22, 2011 7:11 PM CST via mobile reply actions  

I don't know why anyone wouldn't think a player did it

I mean, it was well-documented that Ron Swoboda took a dump on a Sparky Lyle’s birthday cake in the Yankees clubhouse, which was revenge for Sparky Lyle sitting butt-naked on every cake in the Yankees clubhouse.

Let’s be frank here. There are many major league ballplayers who behave like a 12 year old would if you gave them millions of dollars, a six-pack of beer and sent Mommy and Daddy to Europe for a year.

Looking over the roster of the 2006 Cubs, there’s one name that sticks out as a jerk who might do something like that. (And no, I’m not talking about Zambrano.) There were a couple of other guys who were also well-known for having odd senses of humor, too.

by Josh Timmers on Feb 23, 2011 12:35 AM CST reply actions  

I think you & I are thinking about the same player.

I won’t post his name here, though.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 23, 2011 8:16 AM CST up reply actions  

I have a couple in mind myself

are we thinking pitcher or catcher?

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by AGC on Feb 23, 2011 8:20 AM CST up reply actions  

Like I said, I'm not posting any names

… and no hints.

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by Al Yellon on Feb 23, 2011 8:28 AM CST up reply actions  

Weird story

and even weirder if Dusty pulled this story out of his…

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by DrCrawdad on Feb 23, 2011 6:21 AM CST reply actions  

"Don’t belittle entire fanbases or neighborhoods…simply because they are within proximity to some people who don’t operate (or look) the same way you do." - AndrewJStone 6/29/2010

by DrCrawdad on Feb 23, 2011 7:04 AM CST up reply actions  

Someone

on the tribune board said it was Scott Eyre. Not sure if true or not.

DEJESUS!!!

by tomas21 on Feb 23, 2011 8:00 AM CST reply actions  

hah...

Wow! I heard this on the radio this morning but I thought he was saying that as a figure of speech not that someone was literally taking a dump in the dugout. They didn’t talk about the guy cleaning it up saying it might be from a dog and Dusty’s reply. That’s messed up. I never really understood the hatred for that guy. He took a Cubs team that was really sort of a surprise in 2003 further than Lou ever did with MUCH better players and yet people LOVED Lou. Dusty was been a successful coach everywhere he’s been. You can’t argue that.

by Lows05 on Feb 23, 2011 9:21 AM CST reply actions  

...

“Dusty has been successful everywhere he’s coached” is how that sentence should read.

by Lows05 on Feb 23, 2011 9:33 AM CST up reply actions  

It was..

Ryan Dumpster

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by Marmaduke1 on Feb 23, 2011 11:00 AM CST reply actions  

As Sue would say...

oh poop.

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by Emelie on Feb 23, 2011 4:53 PM CST reply actions  

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