Dusty Being His Usual Ass Self

I'm surprised I haven't seen much made of this on some of the message boards I look at:

Perhaps that’s part of the reason Baker struck a somewhat defiant tone
Saturday when asked if it would be fair for general manager Jim Hendry to judge
him based on that, along with star first baseman Derrek Lee being out most of
the season.
“You should have judged me long before we got here to this
point,” Baker said. “You should have been judging my last 13-14 years versus
these last 3-4 months. That’s how I look at it. The complete track record means
something.”

It's good to see that Dusty's so grounded in reality. I know at my job, if I started doing a crappy job for the past 2 years, I'd probably get fired. Lucky for Dusty he works for Jim "the Enabler" Hendry.

“Even though Hendry will decide Baker’s fate, Baker said he judges himself on
his complete career, which includes three Manager of the Year Awards.
“I’m not getting fired … my contract just expires,"

If anyone ever needed to know what's important to Dusty, that statement says it all. He's obviously (or as Hendry would say, obvisly) self-centered enough to only worry about his W-L record ahead of developing players for next year, or about whether or not he gets fired. Well, Dusty, Joe Torre got fired a few times, but he has a few championship rings as a manager. Same for Bob Brenly, Cito Gaston, and no doubt many others.

Let's look at Dusty's last 13-14 years. 14 years a manager, 4 postseasons, 1 pennant, 0 WS championships, a WS big time choke, a NLCS big time choke, the other 2 years were 3 and out and 4 and out. Compare that with his counterpart on the South Side: 2+ years a manager, 1 WS championship, 11-1 postseason, 1 Manager of the Year award, WC leaders currently.

I don't know what Hendry has planned, but he should fire Dusty right now. He won't, so the remaining hope is that he and Dusty agree to disagree come October, and he hire Fredi Gonzalez, Joe Girardi, or anyone but Baker.