Middle-Relief Bigotry Exposed

Your culprit: Greg Couch of the Chicago Sun-Times. In a generally dumb article about why Kerry Wood shouldn’t be the Cubs’ closer, Couch writes:

Wood can never be trusted again. Not as a starter, not as a closer. In middle relief, fine.

On behalf of those who fight for the rights of middle-relief pitchers every day: go fuck yourself, Greg Couch. Why would you want someone who “can never be trusted” to ever pitch for your team? Would the innings he’d pitch in middle relief not count towards the final score of the game? Just for you, I hope the 2008 Cubs have outstanding starting pitchers, a dominant closer, and an untrustworthy Kerry Wood who yields 408 runs in 54 innings pitched of middle relief.