Hey everyone... long time no Rant.... sorry After the Yankees lost I was pissed I didn't want to say anything that I would regret (Go suck an egg Altuve). But the Yankees decided to "Part Ways" with Joe Girardi and I was speechless. Yep I said that... No idea why they would let go of a guy that came 1 win from going to the world series with a team that wasn't supposed to win more than 83 games.
I guess the Yankees thought that they had gone as far as they could with Girardi, or that 10 years was long enough and it was time to move on... or that he was too "robotic" and they wanted someone that was a little friendlier with the players, I don't Know. All I know is that I have seen this before. In 1995 the Yankees were the first winner of the AL Wild Card and played in a playoff game for the first time since 1981. Buck Showalter was the manager. He had managed the Yankees for the past 4 years. He had taken them from a dysfunctional laughing stock to a respectable playoff contender. They lost that one game playoff and Buck was let go. It was shocking and unexpected. No one knew why since the Yankees looked primed to be a playoff contender for years to come.
Within the next few weeks they hired Joe Torre, won 4 World Series Titles and in the next 12 years was in the playoffs every year under Mr. T. Buck went on to be the first coach of the Arizona Diamond backs. He was fired the year before they won the World Series too. Then he moved onto to Texas Rangers.... they made (but lost) the World Series 2 years after he left. The term "Being Buck Showaltered" was born. Fire a guy right before you go on a championship run. Girardi was just Buck Showaltered.
We can't predict if the Yankees will win anything the next few years... injuries happen, people do not hit or pitch like they did the year before. All this is true but we all can see the Yankees have a lot of YOUNG Talent and when you have Young Talent yo are usually pretty good for a number of years.
So who will be the next Yankee manager? No one knows. Looks like they want a puppet that will go by the numbers, listen to the front office and do as told. A Younger manager that is more "relatable" to the younger player and less 'Robotic" Kevin Long, Aaron Boone, Rob Thomson, Al Pedrique (Current AAA Manger) and John Flarhety have all come up. Jerry Harriston Jr. has been said to be a front runner too. They have the a guy that is everything I just mentioned but he is too hatted by the organization and polarizing a character for them to admit and hire....... Alex Rodriguez!
Yeah that's right, Good Old AROD. Oh stop your eye rolling and "hes a cheater" crap. If anyone has paid attention to him as an announcer you will know that he is very well prepared, knowledgeable and baseball smart. Like him or not he is one of the reasons DiDi, Castro, and Sanchez are hitting well at the big league level... When Sanchez was benched this year cause he couldn't catch a cold and also wasn't hitting, who did they call to have diner with him and discuss hitting... ARod. What did he do after that.. nothing but bat .320, with 20 or so HR's and like 50 more RBI's.. no biggie. Hes not a robot like Girardi. He's player friendly. He works off of the "analynics" as you will see from his announcing stats he pulls out and like him or not, he still considers himself a Yankee. Biggest knock on ARod the Announcer is he says "we" whenever he mentions the Yankees. When asked he said he could never not consider himself part of the Yankees.
ARod should be your next Yankee Manager, but he won't be... cause they hate him. They screwed him out the door and they won't give him a chance to do what he will eventually be doing anyway, Managing the game he loved so much he cheated even when he didn't need to just to be the best. Thing is he would have been great even without the junk. He is a terrific student of the game and has more knowledge about baseball then most of us could ever dream of. I'm rooting for you AROD... DILLY DILLY
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