Why does Dust bag continue to talk to the media before he talks to his players.  Such as today when he said that Cueto's problem was probably New York jitters possibly because he was pitching in front of family, because we know that all Latino people have family in New York.  If I were Cueto I would be pissed that my manager is speculating on why I am struggling.  I highly doubt it was jitters, I am guessing if that effects him he would have really struggled in his debut.  

I can sorta buy the argument that a manager does more than pushes buttons during the game, but Dusty when he isn't botching double switches and writing confusing lineup cards doesn't seem to communicate at all well with his players.  Bronson Arroyo didn't find out Dusty thought he had a phsyical problem until the media relied what Dusty told them to Bronson.  Freel has openly complained about not knowing when he is going to start.  Narron and Miley were rough, and weren't considered to be great communicators, and in Narron's case a horrible in game manager too, but I feel like there weren't any problems like this.  After all it was Bench Coach Naron who caught Dusty's mistake when he failed to notify the umpires of a double switch in 2004.  The best part of that one was Dusty went out and screamed, yelled, kicked the lineup card, because he failed to do his job. 

I feel like Dusty is almost too open to the media.  I would much rather have bland comments like, well Cueto really worked hard out there and has a lot of talent and is a great competitor than I think he was nervous about pitching in New York.  Yeah it was kind of annoying when Naron told the media that "somebody" will pitch on Saturday.  But atleast that didn't piss off his players or sound like a fool.

I guess Dusty is still better than the "Great Communicator".  He hasn't armed Iraq and Iran yet.