DODGERS Who will be the next MANAGER?

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The Next Dodger Manager will be...

  1. Gabe Kapler

    20 vote(s)
    80.0%

  2. Dave Martinez

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  3. Tim Wallach

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  4. Ron Roenicke

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  5. Bud Black

    1 vote(s)
    4.0%

  6. Some other puppet

    4 vote(s)
    16.0%
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  1. carolinabluedodger

    carolinabluedodger DSP Legend

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    Oh yeah, ...btw...GET THE FUCK OFF OF MY LAWN.
     
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    For my money, you don't have to have a championship to your credit to be a great manager. Some great managers never have the talent on the roster to make it to the big dance. Just as some players are never blessed to be on the right roster. Just the same as some stiffs who get to be on multiple WS winners simply because they are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time.

    And since I'm talking opinions, here's mine. The more extended the playoffs become, the more of a crapshoot it becomes. We've seen many times now that the best team doesn't win the Series, hell ...half the time the best team doesn't even make it to the Series. It will never happen but I'd still love to see two divisions in each league, one round of playoffs, (FUCK A WILD CARD), and then on the World Series. I don't want to play baseball in November. It's not right.

    /rant[/QUOTE]
    Yes, I agree...and it's not fair to change the criteria for one manager compared to another, as I basically am.You could get clinical, and state that over .500 is a winning manager, and really no one could correctly say you were wrong.
    But the Dodgers are an historically important frnchise, not to mention our team, so winning with the LAD would catapult a newbie (who I guess we're getting), or a previously mediocre guy to BB Valhallah. Going further than HoF manager Joe Torre or Mattingly, both at least Yankee icons, would be a substantial feather in someone's cap.
    Whatever Donnie is,or was with us, it wasn't enough for more than 5 years in LA LA Land.
    So says the FinoOks.
    We'll see how he does with a team without CK, Greinke, Gonzalez and Jansen, et al. and the biggest payroll ever in the cosmos.
    Maybe not so much of a winner then.
     
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    Considering the rumored sexual proclivities of the FO, combined with the present racial climate and statements (especially from LaTroy Hawkins), the Dodgers will sign a handsome black guy.
    So Denzel Washington, welcome aboard!
     
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  5. irish

    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    for the most part
    good managers have winning records
    great managers win championships
     
    irish, Oct 28, 2015
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    So, DBB is a good manager.

    And Joe Altobelli is a great manager. (I could have gone with Bob Brenly).
     
    carolinabluedodger, Oct 28, 2015
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    irish DSP Staff Member Administrator

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    you must have missed the highlighted part :blind:
    there are exceptions to every rule
    and what defines a good/great manager is completely subjective
     
    irish, Oct 28, 2015
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    Mediocre
    Not even full ocre
     
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    I'm like a shotgun loaded with birdshot...I miss nothing.

    And THIS is the highlighted part for me..
     
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    wallach will make a good (perhaps great) manager someday
    but as much as i like him [no homo], he's just not the right guy for us at this point in time
    and i'm relatively sure the nerds feel the same way, otherwise they wouldn't let him out there interviewing
    so good luck tim
    and better luck gabe, dave or whoever we decide on...

    Wallach reportedly interviews for Padres managerial job
    by Eric Stephen | True Blue LA — October 27, 2015
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    Dodgers bench coach Tim Wallach has reportedly interviewed for the vacant managerial job with the Padres, per Corey Brock of MLB.com.

    This would be the second interview for Wallach this offseason, along with the Nationals, though it appears the finalists for the Washington job are down to Bud Black and Dusty Baker, per Jon Heyman of CBS Sports and James Wagner of the Washington Post.

    With the Dodgers in search of their own manager after parting ways with Don Mattingly last Thursday, the Dodgers coaching staff is in limbo, with all contracts expiring this month. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told coaches last week they were free to look elsewhere.

    "To the extent that that happens and something lines up for them and their family, we understand," Friedman said. "To the extent that they're still available when we hire a manager, that will be a conversation we'll have with the new manager at that time."

    Wallach figures to be a candidate for the Dodgers' managerial job as well.

    Other candidates for the San Diego job, per both Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune and Brock, include former Twins manager Ron Gardenhire, Pirates third base coach Rick Sofield, Diamondbacks third base coach Andy Green, ESPN analyst Alex Cora, minor league manager Phil Nevin, and former pitcher Tom Gordon.

    Wallach has been on the Dodgers' major league staff the past five seasons, including the last two as bench coach. He also managed Triple-A Albuquerque in 2009-2010.

    Wallach also interviewed for managerial vacancies after the 2013 season in both Detroit and Seattle.​
     
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    tbh, if I was in charge I've give Wallach the shot before Kapler. And he deserves a better opening gig than the pAAdres.
     
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    I feel like Wallach's opportunity here has passed. Should've got it in 2010
     
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    I agree.

    But he shouldn't have to break in with the shitty pAAdres.
     
    carolinabluedodger, Oct 28, 2015
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    I'm surprised Kevin Kennedy's name has not popped up.
     
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    Kapler connection with Friedman...

    :jew:
     
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    Bud Black just got hired to be the skipper for the Nationals
     
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    Irish is going to fine you.


    No announcements during the World Series you rebel.
     
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    If he goes to San Diego. Honeycutt might follow him.


     
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    :jumpcliff:
     
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    Finooksteins.
    Double whammy...and both have "flown" with John Travolta.
     
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