Peace Out, Corky
109 games too late, the Braves finally closed the door on our long Corky nightmare. I can’t imagine that he won’t clear waivers. I also can’t imagine why the Braves would want to keep him in any capacity. Of course, I couldn’t fathom why they’d keep the Corkster over Brayan Pena way back when, so who knows what they front office is thinking. Maybe Corky has some unflattering pictures of Frank Wren or proof that Bobby Cox beats his wife… oh, wait. Corky has never been more than a below average AAAA-type backup catcher. But this year he’s been unbelievably bad on every level. Offense. Defense. Facial hair. All bad. And that the Braves chose to start him in any number of key games is just scary.
The downside of releasing Corky is that we only have Chucky James and Jeff Francoeur left to boo. And with Francoeur on a lukewarm streak over the last week or so, it’s truly fortunate for the boobirds that Chucky has returned. They (we?) will be booing his performance against the Brewers for weeks to come.
Folks, I’ve seen some bad games pitched in my life. I’ve seen pitchers give up more hits and more runs in fewer innnings than Chucky gave up last night. But I have not seen many performances that were just that convincingly bad. Besides a Prince Fielder popup, pretty much every batter he faced was a walk or a hard hit ball. The Brewers doubled Corky Miller’s yearly offensive production in 2.2 innings.
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