It appears that the Cubs have lost Dempster because he was too excited about his team getting a win. At the conclusion of his last start Dempster jumped over the raling separating the field and the dug out to celebrate the win with his teammates.

Yes, the fire and the passion have derailed a Cubs starter. Can we stop with the fallacy that athletes need to show fire and passion now? Please? The fact that multi million dollar athletes are called out for not showing enough passion is a joke. Enough with that crap now.

If you’re going to call for a Lou blow up then don’t get mad when the players blow up too. All I’ve heard this whole week is that Lou should show some fire, Lou needs to blow up, Lou needs to get pissed. How did that fire work out with Zambrano? With Dempster? How does the Gatorade machine feel about the fire and the passion?

Baseball is a sport where you need to be calm and focused, not yelling all over the place. Why is it that people said that Milton Bradley was too crazy for this locker room yet Lou Piniella needs to fire it up with some good ole fashioned crazy?

Why can’t they just concentrate on playing better baseball? Lou didn’t really have a volcanic eruption last year and the damn team won 97 games! This is nonsense, this fire and the passion crap that Chicagoans love.

I hate it in my baseball team! I don’t want fire, I want wins!