Baffoe: Benching Castro Is Not A Solution

" (CBS) I’ve been calling Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro “The Dictator” since he was promoted from Double-A Tennessee to the Cubs in 2010. Like many a real political dictator, Castro has made some really dumb decisions. Not the genocide or suppressing information coming in and going out of the country dumb, but still dumb.

The latest of Castro’s mental gaffes was forgetting how many outs there were in the fifth inning of Monday’s game against the San Francisco Giants on a potential double play ball. The tying run for the Giants scored because of that.

“It’s very embarrassing,” Castro said after the game. “This can’t happen. I apologize to my team and everybody because that kind of thing is not supposed to happen.”

True. It is embarrassing. For Castro, for his teammates and coaches, and for fans of the Cubs when such “Cubbie plays” happen. Unlike a real dictator, though, there need not be a coup or some termination by a higher political power in the way manager Dale Sveum hinted.

“It’s not acceptable,” Sveum said "

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