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I would have had no problem with the Cubs getting rid of Zambrano after punching Barrett.... though the team was far better off for getting rid of Barrett.

And his behavior at other times has also been out of line, but the suspension last year, for a relatively minor dugout rant seemed a bit excessive, though when combined with an insistence that the learn how to control his temper seemed to make some sense (even if it would have made more sense to have him having already done that in the off season).

But the restricted list this season for cleaning out his locker and essentially talking to himself about retiring (no teammate was present and he was talking to no one with the Cubs) seemed a bit absurd.  I suspect he could have filed and won a grievance over it.

I wonder what the folks complaining about Zambrano would have said if they had Al Kaline on their team when Kaline got mad after striking out and slammed his bat in the dugout and broke his arm.... or if they had Ron Santo get mad and try to strangle his manager, needing to be restrained by his teammates.

I trust our baseball operations leadership to make the right decision.

.... until you don't.

Just remember that the baseball leadership we have now is the same leadership which allowed Red Sox players to drink in the clubhouse during games and allowed the entire team to slip away from Francona during one of the game's historic collapses.

Please feel free to place me on ignore.  It was presumptuous of me to advance ideas that are contrary to yours.

While tico has a fair number of posts, you might actually have to look fairly hard to find anything that would resembling an original idea from him.