Well, Buck Showalter is going to have a lot of competition if he wants to win Manager of the Year. In this morning's column, no less than NINE managers should be in the running for MOY. NINE. Sure. Why not.
BTW, if you think that Farrell should get blamed for using Steven Wright as a pinch runner which got him hurt, you can get fucked. At least that's what one scout told Nick (in so many words). And you should praise Farrell for everything that's gone right. EVERYTHING. But don't step to Nick with the bad stuff. Just don't, okay.
Also there is no way that Tony LaRusa and Dave Stewart should be fired from their positions in Arizona. Mistakes were made, but who cares. They were small mistakes. Things like trading half your farm system for Shelby Miller, giving tons of cash to Grienke and having one GM explain to the D'Backs front office that you can't make a trade because it's completely against team rules. That stuff happens to good GMs all the time. Just the other day Brian Cashman tried to sign Kiki Cuyler for the stretch run. Turns out he's been dead for over 100 years! WACKY!
Arnie Beyeler has managed the New Orleans Zephyrs to almost a .500 record! With results like that, maybe he should AL Manager of the Year!
Oh yeah, "Gary Sanchez is special and you should reward special." That's his hot Rookie of the Year take.
And then there's this: "Steve Clevenger, C, Mariners — Duquette traded him to Seattle for Mark Trumbo, and he’s probably glad he did for more than the lopsided nature of the deal. Clevenger was suspended by the Mariners for the rest of the season without pay for his offensive tweets on the rioting in Charlotte.
Clevenger apologized for his remarks, but the Mariners organization was appalled and acted quickly to suspend him."
(Emphasis Mine) I'm not sure what side Cafardo is on here. I'm going to assume it's not mine.
Today's
column was truly a Tour de Force of bullshit. Like if an alien ever came to Earth and his first question was, "Please show me an example of really, really, really, really stupid baseball notes column and I will spare your planet from total annihilation." This is the column you should show.
Then ask for a ride in his spaceship, because how often is this going to happen?