Okay, so not only is Tony shitting all over the people who come out, night after night, to watch him overmanage the game, but he's saying, "You guys think Chris sucks? Well, fuck that! Have you seen how bad Brendan is?"
There was no reason to include Brendan Ryan in his comments. None at all. All you have to say is, "I wanted to get the lefty/ righty matchup." Just leave it at that. See how easy that is? There's even plenty of reasonable, logical support for it!
Of course, as unfortunate as Tony's statement was, his buddy Duncan then managed to go him one better just yesterday, when discussing his feelings on the trade of his son.
"The way I look at it is he was traded for a player who had very little (leverage) ... he was designated for assignment," Duncan said. "It's highly unusual for a major-league roster player to be traded for somebody like that. So somebody wanted to get him out of the organization, and they've accomplished what they wanted to accomplish.
"Either that or we don't have anybody in the minor leagues that they wanted for (Lugo). One or the other."
Now, at first blush, that may not seem quite as incendiary as what Tony said, but let's look a bit closer, shall we? Dave Duncan has, in the space of about three sentences, managed to degrade the Cardinals' newest acquisition, suggest there was a conspiracy against his son, and insult the farm system by suggesting there was nothing in the minors worth trading for a player Duncan himself just implied was worthless. You know, Dave Duncan may not be a man of many words, but when he does say something, he makes that shit count.