Irate Fans

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For all the talk about players being held accountable for their lack of production by the new management, this apparently doesn't apply to Ian Snell for some reason. It's not only that he's been ineffective for almost all of the games he's pitched in so far, but it seems like he doesn't really care if the team wins or loses. On more than one occasion after he/the pirates lost, he was interviewed on camera smilling and laughing. Then against The Phillies last week, while putting the team in an early hole yet again, he bunts into an inning ending double play. It wouldn't have been so bad, but he was shown on camera laughing and smilling with some of The Phillies right after. (Strange behavior for a guy who said in the past that he hates losing.) Even the brown nosing announcers brought it up. If I were Russell, I would've yanked his ass right then and there. Yet he's still managed to avoid being sent down to AAA despite his pitching outings being just as bad, if not worse than Tom Gorzelanny's. Accountability indeed.

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