Alou... I think the KNBR announcer may have been right even though probably unwise...
" There's nothing cooler than a guy who does what we dream of doing, and then enjoys it as much as we dream we would enjoy it. " -- Scott Ostler on Tim Lincecum
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I don't think he's the worst, but Eric Wedge, the manager of the Indians has had a tuff year. They finished towards the top of the division last year and were expecting a big season, but they're now towards the bottom of the division.
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Wedge and the Indians finishing in the bottom of the division is tough but 2 teams in the central are playing great baseball and are still too far back to catch the tigers
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"Practice."-Tiger Woods when asked what he would do after failing to make the cut at the U.S. Open.
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing. Yet at the 101st blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before." mtownfan
He is part of the faction that fired Gaetti, which was silly.
Disrespected his most valuable pitcher, Oswalt, by not inviting him to the All Star Game.
He refuses to sit Lidge.
The worst part of the problem is the way he changes the batting order and the player positions on a continual basis. Unless you are Biggio, you come to the park not knowing if you are playing, where you are playing and where you are in the batting order.
Professional Ballplayers cannot function in that environment. As an example, in one game he had Lamb (1B) at 2B, Munson (C) at 1B, Oswalt coming out of the bullpen, etc.
I HATE ozzi guillen but i don't think he is a bad mananger...i hate him though- the whole thing with the rookie and making him hit another batter and then sending the rookie back to minors- what an a hole for doing that.
joe torre is ok (im a yanks fan) but i hate when he tries too hard to manufacture runs. his lineup dooesnt need to manufacture runs. just let them hit!
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is just a hole in Arizona. -George F. Will
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I wish the Red Sox would manufacture runs like the Yankees. Time and time again the sox get a guy on 2nd with no outs and can't get him in, or the bases loaded with one out, or something like that.
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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Any discussion of the Best or Worst anything is going to depend on who you're watching.
Even our dear friends at ESPN make statements about teams, players, managers, and GMs that make us wonder if they're watching the same games we are.
Me, I'd say Baker or Garner without hesitation as I've seen more of their oddities; Baker for pitcher (man)handling and player relations; Garner for 'pull a strategy out of a hat blind' in-game moves and the same.
"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance." --- Terry Pratchett
I suspect that the only reason there aren't more votes for Jolly CHolly Manuel is that there aren't too many Phillies fans on the site, otherwise it might be unanimous.
Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most!
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