Just in. Dan Duquette was just fired by the new owners.
Sounds like good news for Red Sox fans and bad news for Yankee fans.
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It's not unequivcal good news in Red Sox Nation:
(1) They're still keeping Joe Kerrigan as manager ... the worst major league manager since the Mariners fired Maury Wills in 1981.
(2) The interim GM is Mike Port. Correct me if I'm wrong, LA/Cal/Anaheim Angel fans, but wasn't Port fairly awful as the Halo GM? Didn't he specialize in over-paying for way-over-the-hill washed-up ex-talent? Port likes his players to be geriatric. Just what the Sox need more of, huh?
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: Charlie in the Trees ]
(1) They're still keeping Joe Kerrigan as manager ... the worst major league manager since the Mariners fired Maury Wills in 1981.
(2) The interim GM is Mike Port. Correct me if I'm wrong, LA/Cal/Anaheim Angel fans, but wasn't Port fairly awful as the Halo GM? Didn't he specialize in over-paying for way-over-the-hill washed-up ex-talent? Port likes his players to be geriatric. Just what the Sox need more of, huh?
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: Charlie in the Trees ]
Is Kerrigan the worst? Only a full season will tell if he can challenge KC's Tony Muser...
It's not acquiring old players that's fatal (as Arizona proved last year), but getting the wrong ones.
It's not acquiring old players that's fatal (as Arizona proved last year), but getting the wrong ones.
From what I hear, Kerrigan's sort of a nutty professor type who can't pry his nose from his laptop long enough to actually watch the game. Whenever you hear a manager using words like "vectors", you know you're in trouble. All this would be harmless enough if he weren't such a sneaky little weasel. He has an irresponsible habit of saying things "off the record" to both Red Sox staff and the media. You'd think he's been around baseball, or just human beings in general, long enough to realize that the off-the-record comments eventually get around to the player [DUH!]. Anybody remember how pissed off Derek Lowe was when he was demoted from closer, saying that Kerrigan never bothered to tell him? Kerrigan claimed he felt awful about it but he just didn't have time to tell Derek. Didn't have time? You were throwing longball with Lowe that afternoon! Don't you think you could have told him then, you lying weasel?!
With Duquette gone, Kerrigan doesn't have a leg to stand on. Although I haven't heard any rumblings about possible Kerrigan replacements, I just can't imagine the players or fans are going to put up with Kerrigan much longer. When the well-liked, well-respected (and did I mention hot?) recent Sox 1st baseman Mike Stanley was hired as bench coach, one local reporter put it best, "Stanley's there as a liaison between the manager and the 25 guys who can't stand the manager."
Duquette was an arrogant, self-important prick, and I am so damn glad to see him go. I will admit no small amount of satisfaction hearing him blubbering during his farewell press conference. What goes around comes around, Danny Boy. And if anybody actually feels sorry for that self-aggrandizing s**thead, remember that Duquette has a $3 million severance package to ease the pain. Give me $3 million to walk out the door, and you can fire me as often as you like!
Yes, the Sox are still stuck with Kerrigan, but don't underestimate the significance of Stanley as bench coach. As far as I'm concerned, Danny Boy's firing is nothing but good news!
With Duquette gone, Kerrigan doesn't have a leg to stand on. Although I haven't heard any rumblings about possible Kerrigan replacements, I just can't imagine the players or fans are going to put up with Kerrigan much longer. When the well-liked, well-respected (and did I mention hot?) recent Sox 1st baseman Mike Stanley was hired as bench coach, one local reporter put it best, "Stanley's there as a liaison between the manager and the 25 guys who can't stand the manager."
Duquette was an arrogant, self-important prick, and I am so damn glad to see him go. I will admit no small amount of satisfaction hearing him blubbering during his farewell press conference. What goes around comes around, Danny Boy. And if anybody actually feels sorry for that self-aggrandizing s**thead, remember that Duquette has a $3 million severance package to ease the pain. Give me $3 million to walk out the door, and you can fire me as often as you like!
Yes, the Sox are still stuck with Kerrigan, but don't underestimate the significance of Stanley as bench coach. As far as I'm concerned, Danny Boy's firing is nothing but good news!
[quote]The interim GM is Mike Port. Correct me if I'm wrong, LA/Cal/Anaheim Angel fans, but wasn't Port fairly awful as the Halo GM?
Yes, he was. Now with Bill Stoneman in place and Tony Tavares gone, I'm actually cautiously optimistic about the Angels front office.
Yes, he was. Now with Bill Stoneman in place and Tony Tavares gone, I'm actually cautiously optimistic about the Angels front office.
[quote]Originally posted by BoSoxRudy:
Whenever you hear a manager using words like "vectors", you know you're in trouble.
Baseball has "vectors?"
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: satxbuddy1 ]
Whenever you hear a manager using words like "vectors", you know you're in trouble.
Baseball has "vectors?"
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: satxbuddy1 ]
"vectors"? believe me, satxbuddy1, I'm still trying to figure out what Kerrigan was trying to say.
No one seems to know anything for sure, but I hear that Grady Little is a strong candidate to replace Kerrigan. Felipe Alou's name keeps coming up, but he made some kind of commitment down in the Dominican. Haven't heard anything about Buck Showalter or Ken Macha, the other two names that pop up. Going out on a limb here, I'm guessing that Little gets named field manager sometime next week.
I'm not too worried about Mike Port, since the emphasis is on "interim" in his position as interim GM. Thank God they're replacing the director of player development and the scouting director, two guys who bear a large share of the guilt for a farm system that's barer than Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
PS: Here's a headline I thought I'd see preceded only by a cold day in Hell ...
Clemens fondly recalls Duquette
[ March 02, 2002: Message edited by: BoSoxRudy ]
No one seems to know anything for sure, but I hear that Grady Little is a strong candidate to replace Kerrigan. Felipe Alou's name keeps coming up, but he made some kind of commitment down in the Dominican. Haven't heard anything about Buck Showalter or Ken Macha, the other two names that pop up. Going out on a limb here, I'm guessing that Little gets named field manager sometime next week.
I'm not too worried about Mike Port, since the emphasis is on "interim" in his position as interim GM. Thank God they're replacing the director of player development and the scouting director, two guys who bear a large share of the guilt for a farm system that's barer than Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
PS: Here's a headline I thought I'd see preceded only by a cold day in Hell ...
Clemens fondly recalls Duquette
[ March 02, 2002: Message edited by: BoSoxRudy ]
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