Capitol Punishment: Needham: Church In Hell

La-la-la-la-la
Come along, it can’t hurt
We’re on a, a little date...with Ryan Church

Anyway… I do feel bad for the way he got jerked around the last few years, while the team fiddled with crapbags—and worse, OBVIOUS crapbags—like Endy and Logan. If he’s your worst outfielder, you’ve got a pretty good team. Just nobody every really took the time to notice the small things he did… just the big ugly things he did wrong.

But at the same time, good riddance. The team is better with Milledge than it is with him. And Church’s biggest asset to the team always was how cheap his contract was relative to the league-average performance he gave. Now that he’s making north of $2 million, that value starts to erode.

I hope he enjoys NY. I hope he enjoys putting his foot in his mouth at some point this year. And I hope he enjoys the choruses of boos he’s going to get when he flails weakly at a breaking ball in the dirt. (since he’s the only batter in the history of baseball who has a hard time with breaking pitches...)