Baghdad Hud on the post game.

Guess he's gonna have to spark up the big blue bong for the plane ride home.

:doh!:

Thanks for the explanation.

Dude, what? The Brewers fired him in the middle of a playoff run. I'm sorry but that's a special kind of suck to get fired for getting your team into the playoffs.

Teams take after their coaches/managers


Royals are as soft as wet tissue paper


what is the opposite of 'Clutch'?

Can't wait to hear Ned 'xplain this series. We're officially in last now, right?

Decent counter-argument.

Again, I think this is a component to the game that is tough to measure statistically. The stat guys, who are usually spot on, will say 3-5 games either way in terms of a manager's impact.

But damn if some guys don't have a knack for being more on the plus side.

There is a chemistry and feel to a clubhouse that those who have never played the game at a high level don't understand or cannot understand (whichever the case may be).

And who's responsible for getting into the heads of players to make sure they aren't completely reeruned? Pretty sure that's the manager of any professional sport.

Yost is doing about as poor of job at that as I've ever seen.

I've said it a few times, but it bears repeating: out of the 3 major sports (NFL, NBA, and MLB) the Major League Baseball manager is the least-relevant and least important out of all the head coach/manager guys in all of American professional sports, especially in the American League.

In baseball, you should care about the players and the GM. You should only really care about the manager if he's making everyone throw 110+ pitches and getting your pitchers hurt. If you think the GM is horrible, you may want to root for the manager to be fired only because that removes an excuse and the GM could be next.

Well, the good news? We have found our bunts.....err, bats in this game. 3 runs, mother ****ers! 3!

These guys aren't freaking 3rd-graders. They are grown-ass men who have played baseball all their lives.

Hahaha! And to think some around here thought this could be a playoff team. Anyone watching this franchise for longer than 3 years should know better.

Yep.. That's it... It's never his fault. He's not accountable for anything on this team. nothing.. He just makes the lineup, and might as well hit the showers because after that, nothing he does matters or can possibly make a difference in the outcome of a game. It's all on the players, you can't blame manager, GM or owner, they aren't accountable for anything - just cashing their paycheck. It's just almost every other team, and every successful team, that feel differently.

C'mon man, you know that's ridiculous.

If Ned doesn't own a huge part of this team's performance, then why have a manager? Let the players set the lineup.

I know this this isn't the military but you'll never hear the navy, or most captains, allow the blame for running the ship aground not START with the ship's captain. There may be others, but it always starts with the captain, he is relived of command, and THEN the investigation begins. Others may go down, the captain may get his ship back, but it's usually step one to releive him. It sort of sets a tone....

Perhaps the Royals could learn something from the Navy!

I've already said as much in this thread but some don't want to accept that.

I blame Mike Sweeney.

LMAO.