Good MLB pitching coach fired today and is available.....

[shoeless joe]

Stumpf came out and said that he?s never been called Spider Monkey, much less by anybody in the organization. In other words, the pitching coach is full of it. He used a slur. Did you really think the Cubs would do that without investigating the claim? Rich folks are way harder to fire because they can lawyer up.

Eh...that doesn't really dismantle his story. Not to defend him because I don't know what was said or meant by it BUT in a team setting it wouldn't be uncommon for coaches to refer to a player by a nickname and it not be used to their face. And he could have been telling someone how he looked like a "spider monkey" and then just described what happened by sayin it was like a nickname.

I do not find it hard to believe that an MLB coach would make insensitive comments...I just think it adds to the notion of folks being overly sensitive and wanting to be offended.

Now if he was being obviously racist and mean spirited in that...he got what he deserved. But how sensitive do you hafta be not to get fired? Does insensitive equal racist? I've been around a ton of insensitive jokes that were funny as hell that had nothing to do with race?? So I guess I just don't understand the description of the comments that were a firable offense.