Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Mad Thaught (Volume 1)

You know, it may not be all that easy for Joe Girardi to get a new managerial position.

Now you may be saying, 'Whoa! Hey, dude, if you haven't heard, the man's just won the Sporting News NL Manager of the Year, he's gonna win the Baseball Writers' NL Manager of the Year, and the Cubs and Cubs fans are falling all over themselves trying to get him over there - what about that?'

Uh, yes, I know. The Cubs in fact just finished interviewing him. But they're interviewing a few more people for the job. That in itself doesn't tell much.

And of course the team he ran had an amazing year. The Marlins front office obviously knew that he was a likely shoo-in for BBWAA-NLMOY,... yet they still were chomping like mad at the bit to get his butt out of the clubhouse, not even concerned that they have to pay his salary for the next 2 years to do it.

The interviews that I think will matter here are the ones the GM's of the needy teams had or are having with the Marlins brass under the radar, getting from them the inside low-down on why the leader of one of the most surprisingly successful campaigns in all of baseball history had to be jettisioned.

That type of talk may contain much stuff we haven't heard - maybe not nasty or salacious stuff, maybe stuff of debatable consequence, but just stuff that may make a prospective employer think twice about signing him up.

Then again, maybe not.

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