Comments on: Exit manager, stage left http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/06/19/exit-manager-stage-left/ Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: colin http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/06/19/exit-manager-stage-left/comment-page-1/#comment-14910 colin Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:35:13 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/06/19/exit-manager-stage-left/#comment-14910 Meh. Managers don't swing bats or pitch. Remember Terry Francona? He got run out of Philadelphia on a rail after years of managing mediocre Phillies teams. Now he's a genius because he's managing the Red Sox, with all that star power and payroll. I'd buy your argument if Bavasi hadn't overloaded the team with such an appalling pile of inverse talent. To your point about shaking up the batting order: That only works if you have somebody to replace the guy. Cairo's average was miserable, so who do you move up? Morse? <i>Bloomquist</i>? Meh. Managers don’t swing bats or pitch. Remember Terry Francona? He got run out of Philadelphia on a rail after years of managing mediocre Phillies teams. Now he’s a genius because he’s managing the Red Sox, with all that star power and payroll. I’d buy your argument if Bavasi hadn’t overloaded the team with such an appalling pile of inverse talent.

To your point about shaking up the batting order: That only works if you have somebody to replace the guy. Cairo’s average was miserable, so who do you move up? Morse? Bloomquist?

]]> By: 1michael http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/06/19/exit-manager-stage-left/comment-page-1/#comment-14897 1michael Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:48:33 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/06/19/exit-manager-stage-left/#comment-14897 There actually was a point - despite, by all accounts, his being a stand-up guy, he couldn't manage a Little League team. Consistently putting the worst batter in baseball high in your line-up is just one sure sign that either it just isn't what you're cut out to do or that you really want to be fired. Maybe your argument is that the M's should continue to fail as badly as possible and ensure the #1 draft pick in 2009...? There actually was a point – despite, by all accounts, his being a stand-up guy, he couldn’t manage a Little League team. Consistently putting the worst batter in baseball high in your line-up is just one sure sign that either it just isn’t what you’re cut out to do or that you really want to be fired.

Maybe your argument is that the M’s should continue to fail as badly as possible and ensure the #1 draft pick in 2009…?

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