i never liked mattingly thought he was a bad hire to begin with being torre's lapdog didn't qualify/prepare him for shit glad he's gone, fucken bum
Was listening to the Giants radio show. Some fill-in host was talking about how now that the Gnats chances are over, everyone can still root against LA. Then he added, no matter how bad their season is, at least the Dodgers don't have any recent championships and blah, blah, blah... But then he got all solemn and conciliatory and said, "However, they no longer have clueless Don Mattingly managing them, so their greatest obstacle to winning is gone." I couldn't disagree with that.
If we get a sizable lead in any game, we just need to go the plate and stand there without swinging. Don't want to hurt Don's little feelings.
Sure, but... A) small sample size, and B) Kind of hard to find fault in losing to a 103-win team - it's not like Dodgers got upset.
Agree. My point is that managers probably get too much credit and too much blame (especially the latter).
That's the job bro...comes with the territory. Can't all be fat cats and sit back while the best team money can buy goes out there every day and wins, like Joe Torre back in the day. Like Truman had on his desk, "the buck stops here"...
totally agree we weren't expected to beat the cubs roberts did a better job getting his team further than expected while maddon basically sat there and let it play out that said, if things continue and we win say 105 games... then anything less than a ws appearance would be a huge fail we're better than any nl team over 7 games and against the astros it would be a push imo but we still have to get there and no telling what the 2nd half holds
totally agree we weren't expected to beat the cubs roberts did a better job getting his team further than expected while maddon basically sat there and let it play out that said, if things continue and we win say 105 games... then anything less than a ws appearance would be a huge fail we're better than any nl team over 7 games and against the astros it would be a push imo but we still have to get there and no telling what the 2nd half holds
I would say losing to the Cubs was New York cheating, and Angel Hernandez starting behind the dish and squeezing a kid.
For me the biggest delta between managers was when we played the Giants. I don't recall specifics, but I would notice numerous times throughout those games that old Melonhead would out-manage Mattingly. It was so frustrating to watch and not get why Mattingly couldn't see the obvious. I don't see that with Roberts.
