The All-Purpose No Bullshit Tolerating Who Should Be the Next Manager Thread

[Internet Apex]

"Take this job and shove it"
                -Johnny Paycheck David Allan Coe

Songwriter'd.

Who also loves robbing banks.

Eazy loved it more.

[PenFoe]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
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Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

[CBStew]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
...
...
Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

How about Casey Stengel?  Sure, he is dead.  But nobody is perfect.

[Quality Start Machine]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
...
...
Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

I wish to Christ Gordo felt the same way about dinner as he did about the Cubs, since by now he'd be dead from trichinosis after eating raw pork chops.

[Eli]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
...
...
Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

I wish to Christ Gordo felt the same way about dinner as he did about the Cubs, since by now he'd be dead from trichinosis after eating raw pork chops.

That seems both random and oddly specific.

[Brownie]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
...
...
Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

1. How many strikes does Gordon get?
2. He really needs to bolster his clip portfolio.

[Quality Start Machine]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
...
...
Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

I wish to Christ Gordo felt the same way about dinner as he did about the Cubs, since by now he'd be dead from trichinosis after eating raw pork chops.

That seems both random and oddly specific.

I have an accordion binder filled with Gordo death scenarios.

[R-V]

In case anyone was wondering, Gordo still sucks.

Maybe a homecoming by Joe Girardi is exactly what the Cubs need two years into this 197-loss rebuilding process. Maybe he'll be the right manager at the right time to lay the groundwork for a farm load of young players to succeed and win in the next few years.

Or at least buy an attendance-hemorrhaging franchise a couple of more years of cover with the paying public, the way the hiring of team president Theo Epstein did two years ago.

Either way, they'd better get their man. They'd better get Girardi.
...
...
Failing to land the top free-agent manager available, who fits every criterion laid out by Epstein during a news conference Monday: That would be Strike 2.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A PLAN AT ALL, IS THERE THEO??

I don't really read the Sun-Times or Tribune proactively anymore - is Gordo a columnist now? I thought he was the beat writer in which case it'd be strange that he's editorializing so blatantly on the subject.

[Chuck to Chuck]

A.J. Hinch!

[Saul Goodman]

In all due respect, Shakespeare said it pretty well:

"It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing." — Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)

Sveum is dead now?

Up in horsey heaven, here's the thing
You trade your legs for angels wings
And once we’ve all said good-bye
You take a running leap and you learn to fly

Out, out, brief candle!

"Things without all remedy Should be without regard: what's done, is done."

Macbeth, Act 3, scene 2.

"I give up.  Now I realize fully what Mark Twain meant when he said, 'The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.'"

Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194 (1947) (JACKSON, J., dissenting)

[PenFoe]

A.J. Hinch!

So...I never followed the D-Backs THAT closely when I lived in Arizona (did you guys know I lived there?) but I remember mostly unmitigated disaster.  It was due largely in part to him having no experience and being perceived as the forced-upon hire by the nerds running the show (sound familiar?)  and there was much rejoicing when Kirk Gibson was hired.  The subsequent winning was also further evidence for the meatballs that nerds are bad managers, even if those guys used to play. 

Really, I don't have much to add. 

[Eli]

A.J. Hinch!

So...I never followed the D-Backs THAT closely when I lived in Arizona (did you guys know I lived there?) but I remember mostly unmitigated disaster.  It was due largely in part to him having no experience and being perceived as the forced-upon hire by the nerds running the show (sound familiar?)  and there was much rejoicing when Kirk Gibson was hired.  The subsequent winning was also further evidence for the meatballs that nerds are bad managers, even if those guys used to play. 

Really, I don't have much to add. 

I don't know anything about his managing style but I always felt like he was basically used as a scapegoat in Arizona. I've heard from a few fans who thought he was fairly smart and got a raw deal.

It's weird to feel so uninterested in a managerial search. None of it matters until they want to put a competitive team on the field, so I can't bring myself to get too fired up either way.

[BH]

A.J. Hinch!

So...I never followed the D-Backs THAT closely when I lived in Arizona (did you guys know I lived there?) but I remember mostly unmitigated disaster.  It was due largely in part to him having no experience and being perceived as the forced-upon hire by the nerds running the show (sound familiar?)  and there was much rejoicing when Kirk Gibson was hired.  The subsequent winning was also further evidence for the meatballs that nerds are bad managers, even if those guys used to play. 

Really, I don't have much to add. 

I don't know anything about his managing style but I always felt like he was basically used as a scapegoat in Arizona. I've heard from a few fans who thought he was fairly smart and got a raw deal.

It's weird to feel so uninterested in a managerial search. None of it matters until they want to put a competitive team on the field, so I can't bring myself to get too fired up either way.

Arizona's young players did well under Hinch. And he made no huge managing mistakes. Yay?

[Quality Start Machine]

Hire Buck Schowalter, since whoever comes in after he gets fired wins the World Series.

[ChuckD]

Hire Buck Schowalter, since whoever comes in after he gets fired wins the World Series.

gorshyjeewiz we shoulda just hired him two dave swaims ago