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I understand that the venerable girardi is interviewing for this seat, poor man.

I contend this to be the worst coaching job in professional sport. Pinheaded owner, proud franchise history, a 1500 game slump to which no end seems likely. It's a bit like watching Napoleon's march on them Roosky guys back in the day. Even a smart guy general managed to absorb some fantastic losses.

The Miami Dolphins come to mind as a rival, same BHAG(fn1) mindset among fans, same snakebitten fortunes on the field. Your views please

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1. Big hairy a[udaciou]s goals.

Views? You request these as if it is open to some form of debate. I contend that your post contains the only realistic "view," but then there are those among us who feel privy to some singular enlightenment, I suppose. Perhaps it would be good to elicit the opinion of those who perhaps think that the Orioles are not what you contend, if only to pick their brains to determine what other onerous thoughts fester there.

For instance, would one who thinks the Oriole's franchise is "on the right track" also think that America offers the best healthcare in the world or that an elected leader who says he has a "dialogue" with God does in fact speak the truth?

It has long been my contention that Oriole's supporters are related to survivalists who bunker and hunker up in Montana. I'm not against "outing" them. They need help.

If they hire Girardi, I have a Cubbie fan friend who is going to be livid. He wanted Joe instead of Lou and was hoping that after Lou is fired, that Girardi could jump in and of course guide the Cubs to the World Series. Hope springs eternal from Cubbie breasts.

Has there been a more obvious replacement candidate in the history of MLB than Girardi? I hope Baltimore does it.

biggie 4 Wrote:Views? You request these as if it is open to some form of debate. I contend that your post contains the only realistic "view," but then there are those among us who feel privy to some singular enlightenment, I suppose. Perhaps it would be good to elicit the opinion of those who perhaps think that the Orioles are not what you contend, if only to pick their brains to determine what other onerous thoughts fester there.

For instance, would one who thinks the Oriole's franchise is "on the right track" also think that America offers the best healthcare in the world or that an elected leader who says he has a "dialogue" with God does in fact speak the truth?

It has long been my contention that Oriole's supporters are related to survivalists who bunker and hunker up in Montana. I'm not against "outing" them. They need help.

See, this is the kind of spot-on independent post we need re that sorry franchise in Charm City. Not the wailings and breast-beatings of folks like the Prof and kC.

Mind you, I'd take the epistles of the writer, supra, on the Tribe and Bosox with a grain, nay, a pillar of salt.

I would rather manage the orioles than coach the arizona cardinals.

Nah, maybe not.

waynehead Wrote:I would rather manage the orioles than coach the arizona cardinals.

Nah, maybe not.

that's a tough call

Looks like Girardi will not be the manager

Quote:Girardi's agent, Steve Mandel, told ESPN on Thursday that Girardi will not return to the managerial ranks at this time and will remain with the YES Network as one of the Yankees' TV analysts

translation - "I want the Yankee job when they fire Torre"

Girardi says its just not right

I wonder what's not right about it? the timing?

Quote:translation - "I want the Yankee job when they fire Torre"

I concur.

Think he's holding out for the yankees' job or would he take a job with the Cubs?

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^ok, see, that used to be the symbol for something; therefore 100% appropos for this thread

Girardi might be the Yankee manager by the end of the month.

if the O's take the broom to the damnyankees, maybe they end up with Torre.... regardless, watching the $18M dollar man end up on the other end of a shutout was a little sliver of creme fraiche in an otherwise steamy pile of poo

kidC Wrote:a little sliver of creme fraiche in an otherwise steamy pile

the writing here is worth the price of admission.

can't believe noneay'all are talking about what a prescient, carefully considered decision this was on the part of the O's higherups.

obviously, they went about the firing and subsequent replacing of their manager with a plan of such puissant brilliance as to render the sun itself naught but a smoking ember in the sky. three silent cheers for mister angelos, a man who by any measure must be considered one of the finest owners ever to have grown fat on the jurisprudence of asbestos-related lawsuits.

christmas. sorry about that last sentence there. this forum's always rendered it's prose on the self-delusional side of eloquence, and this here is no exception. note particularly how i bungled the use of jurisprudence, as though it were a word whose definition i claimed some familiarity with