The decision to not fire Don Mattingly is an interesting case study in decision-making, luck and timing. Only a few months ago, Dodger manager Don Mattingly’s head was on the chopping block, or at least that’s what we were told. By the beginning of June, the Dodgers and their $220 million payroll, the highest in Major League Baseball, were nine games under .500. A playoff spot was an afterthought, never mind a World Series title. Magic Johnson and the rest of the rich folks that own the Los Angeles Dodgers had an important decision to make: keep Mattingly or make a change. More at: http://sportschump.net/2013/09/09/d...seballs-smartest-man-in-only-six-weeks/12180/
Chump, Judging a managers strength by the performance of his team is fraught with peril. DBB was an HoF player and he surely knew LOTS about baseball that may or may not have been exemplified by the performance of the early 2013 Dodgers. So we’re left to judge individual situations. When DBB sat Ethier for repeated lazy effortless AB’s he was doing what needed done, when he sat Puig for lazy fielding and discipline-less AB’s once again he was managing correctly. When he lost Kemp, who only injured himself by dogging it, people cried that DBB should have done something more before that happened. But what can a manager do when a very highly paid player dogs it? Bench him. Let the world howl. Maybe, just maybe Kemp will return with a vengeance… and not find any OF position left for his unmotivated arse. Retaining the focus of this thread the Lakers Front Office made their own worst error by hiring a coach who has only ever played a run and gun type of offense which the ancient Lakers hardly had the personnel to play. Error on the Front Office more than D’Antoni even if I do think that he’s marginally incompetent. Judging any pro coach or manager by the efforts of his overpaid players is like shooting a shotgun in the dark… sure you’ll hit something once in a while but not often enough to win it all. To do that you need guys like zen master Phil who ignored many little daily things but got inside of players heads to make them work harder together all by themselves. He managed the human more than the game. DBB is trying to do this. D'Antoni? Well I don't think he knows how to...
Why does everyone have a different random number for our payroll? From $216-$236. We've heard it all. Fucking retards in the media.
Thats probably 70% of it And then modern contracts have soooooo many caveats, performance clauses, incentives etc it's a wonder the Dodgers themselves know what the payroll will be until the season ends. Making the playoffs is definitely going to cost GG plenty of coin because I'd wager 60% of the contracts have kickers that pay upon playoff game #1. Oh and yes the media are generally retards with really really short attention spans.
Whether it's fair or not though, Tree, managers and coaches will be judged by how their players play for them. In the NBA, any superstar can get a coach fired. Little tougher in the other leagues although if a guy like Brees or Rodgers or shit, even Andrew Luck at this point wanted their coach gone, I'm sure ownership would oblige.
Blue... I forgot where I got my number but shit, when we're talking the difference of ten to twenty mil over 2oo and change, does that even matter?
I checked with GG... they said fine... as soon as you can hit .300 off of MLB sliders and curves I replied that you're full of greasy sliders and have nothing but curves... they weren't impressed. Sorry... guess you'll have to go back to robbing Girl Scout's of their cookie money
my own faggot? you mean you? aw thanks, but i think i'll stick with women. you should try women sometimes... you never know
just speaking the plain truth... ... in reply to some power tripping mod trying to tell my long time married ass "you should try women"... I don't care if he's a power tripping mod or not that dog done barked up the wrong tree that time... but I'm over it... unless I see that stick come poking close to my eye again...
