Gee, why did the Mets fire him?

Steve Phillips of ESPN has something stupid to say about everything when it comes to baseball.  We can’t really fault him for talking about baseball, it’s his job.  We can yell at him for not doing any research and talking out of his ass though.  Don’t worry though, you don’t have to yell at him.  Lou took care of that for us.  Here are Phillips comments:

“My view is Lou doesn’t have a great deal of patience for assimilation into culture, assimilation into the team,” Phillips said. “He is just not the most patient guy around, and he tends to verbalize his frustrations in an angry way. I think that may have affected Fukudome a little bit.”

Lou’s patience notwithstanding, this comment was made without looking into the situation at all.  Fear not, Lou clued him in:

“I don’t have much respect for Steve Phillips,” Piniella said after hearing the comment Monday. “Let him be around a little more and see what transpires before he makes assumptions. I’ve lost total respect for this guy. If he had something to say, let him say it to me.”

For the hell of it, let’s take a look at how impatient Lou was with Fukudome:

Piniella played Fukudome in 150 games and gave him 501 at-bats, sticking with the right fielder despite his struggles before sitting him for a brief stretch in September. Fukudome then started the first two playoff games before Piniella sat him in Game 3.

If anything Lou was TOO patient with Kosuke.  I’m so sick of ESPN.  I’m not saying I want them off the air, but can they at least not lie and call their people “experts”?  Is that too much to ask?