There has to be someone on the team most players like? The bench coach, pitching coach, hitting coach, whoever. Give them the job and the Billy Beane manual to managing.
Absolutely Adequate wrote:I think what Oakland/Beane need is a do-nothing manager. The kind of guy who keeps the players happy and doesn't insist on diverging from the plan.
I think Macha only fulfilled one of those two obligations.
They should get the first clown manager. Whenever they have a bad game he can throw some pies at the other team, or when a ref makes a bad call he rolls out and gets him with selzter water. It'd be amazing.
Hmmm. Sort of a variant of my proposed Bozo rule for baseball players which goes something like if you hit less than 230 or have an ERA over 5 after May 1, you have to go to the plate/appear on the mound wearing a big red clown's nose until you fix the problem. If you hit below the Mendoza line or have an ERA over 6, you have to also wear big red floppy shoes and a big red puffy wig.
If you go 1 for 14 in the post-season and make more than 25 million, you have to not only do all of the above for the next full season, but have to have your name officially changed to "Bozo D. Clown'. Man you would see an improvement in a hurry.
lol..Now up...number 13...Bozo D. Clown...number 13.
They finally win a playoff series and lose to a team that killed the Yankees. Who can they get to do a better job with that team, the talent to win more than they did is not there.
I'm honestly shocked that Beane has never thought about managing the team. The fact he or Depodesta never sat on the bench is a bit strange to me, as Oakland pretty much wants a manager who will follow Beane's orders to the letter.
I think Macha did a decent job this year, but some things (Loiaza starting over Haren or Harden?!) simply didn't make sense.
tinfoilxtouch wrote:I'm honestly shocked that Beane has never thought about managing the team. The fact he or Depodesta never sat on the bench is a bit strange to me, as Oakland pretty much wants a manager who will follow Beane's orders to the letter.
I think Macha did a decent job this year, but some things (Loiaza starting over Haren or Harden?!) simply didn't make sense.
In Moneyball, Beane can't even watch Oakland play. He gets too angry.
"And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that lord of Castamere. But now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear." - The Rains of Castamere
Pogotheostrich wrote:There has to be someone on the team most players like? The bench coach, pitching coach, hitting coach, whoever. Give them the job and the Billy Beane manual to managing.
Page 1: Don't bunt. Don't ever bunt.
Yeah most likely the manager will be somebody internal who already knows the Beane philosophy and how things are run. Ron Washington is a good candidate, or maybe the AAA manager. I don't see the A's needing to bring somebody in from the outside.
Macha was a fine manager, he just tended towards inaction in the wrong ways (bad ump calls, pulling a pitcher in time, dealing with players)
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by Pogotheostrich » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:07 pm 
