If you're Buck Showalter and taking stock of things on your 60th birthday, you might think things are pretty good: you've got another shot at managing, you're a local hero for engineering a pretty miraculous of a once moribund ballclub and you've got a solid veteran core and some exciting young talent to keep things interesting. Then there's Ubaldo Jimenez. It has been expressed here many times how painful it can be watching Ubaldo pitch and you have to think that it's doubly so for a perfectionist like Buck Showalter. Maybe even worse that Jimenez seems to be such a hard worker and a good clubhouse guy.
Monday Bird Droppings: Buck Showalter's birthday edition
