Billy Grant
Richmond- Habaneros manager Justin Brittle is no stranger to adversity. After spending most of 2000s coaching up a Triple A team to make his way into the Bigs, Brittle again finds himself struggling with an inept team. "Most people don't remember the Triple A Chili Peppers," Brittle said during a break from spring training today, "back in the early 2000s if you walked into our stadium it would take you several innings to recognize the game of baseball was being playing in front of you." Brittle continued, "Hell, it took me half a season to realize we didn't even have anyone covering 3rd base and another half to remember to put someone there."
Eventually the Chili Peppers found their baseball legs (and third basemen) and put together several seasons to catch the eye of then Bigs Commish Whit Altizer. "What Brittle did with the Chili Peppers is akin to making blind person see," former Commish Altizer said, "but last season it looks like Brittle's squad pulled an Oedipus Rex...and decided to go deaf while they were at it."
The Habaneros finished a respectable 6th place in their first year, but last year finished 11th. "It isn't so much that they finished 11th," Boozehounds manager Andy Harrison said of the Habaneros, "it is they finished behind The Really Stevens." The Really Stevens, the perennially awful Bigs ball club, is the litmus test among mangers for sucking. "Where the Habaneros seem to field a team that can neither hear or see," Toes manager Mike Richards said by phone today, "the Really Stevens seem to field a team without arms or legs."
But Brittle and the Habaneros are remaining optimistic about 2011. Expecting bigger things now that managements head is out of their own ass. "You can't reach the top without knowing there is a bottom," Brittle said sagely, "and you can't throw a man out at 3rd if no one is covering it."
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