Time for a firing?

[mjsb2]

Gardenhire is just as bad of an in game strategist as Leyland, if not worse.

 

[tonyballs]

Playing Kburn night in and night out is grounds enough for a firing. I've wanted the old man gone now for awhile. He's a joke...

 

[Mitchrapp]

Leyland says "I have to get him (kburn) going so he'll play and play a lot."

 

[Thumb]

I don't or care either way but sometimes managers/coaches and GM's get fired just because, a slow start usually. People have gotten fired for worse reasons. Nonetheless, I don't see Mike I. firing DD.

You have seen a manager fired after a month and a half of .500 baseball after a 95 win season?

We're not talking Ned Yost here.

 

[Mitchrapp]

You have seen a manager fired after a month and a half of .500 baseball after a 95 win season?

We're not talking Ned Yost here.

Not those particular numbers but people do get fired early with a solid record. Or get fired after winning a lot one season, and get fired in the off-season. Don't be so shocked.

 

[manchild98]

Gardenhire is just as bad of an in game strategist as Leyland, if not worse.

The issue that people have with Leyland is the same they would have with any other manager....they watch him manage every game, all game long, for 162 games. They don't do that with other teams and their managers. Those managers bring in players that make outs and blow the leads too.

 

[Thumb]

Everyone bring up Gibson too, I'd love to hear the reasoning he's be better then Leyland other than he was everyone's childhood hero.

I mean i know he turned around a horrible team and surprised everyone by taking them to the playoffs and won manager of the year, hmm almost sounds familiar...like 2006 familiar....

 

[Mitchrapp]

Everyone bring up Gibson too, I'd love to hear the reasoning he's be better then Leyland other than he was everyone's childhood hero.

I mean i know he turned around a horrible team and surprised everyone by taking them to the playoffs and won manager of the year, hmm almost sounds familiar...like 2006 familiar....

Maybe because he's younger and has newer ideas? Its not the worse thing to have. Sometimes you want to get rid of the good 'ole boys..

 

[Thumb]

Maybe because he's younger and has newer ideas? Its not the worse thing to have. Sometimes you want to get rid of the good 'ole boys..

What new ideas? Does he play 4 men in the OF or something?

 

[kingofdetroit57]

first off the idea of blaming dd is just stupid, and if you think he's the problem, so are you.

Dd put together a 100 win team, if the team's not playing up to spec how can you blame him?

And leyland, i get it you don't like him, i also get that as an ohio state fan you don't like to bathe, lets agree to disagree.

But leyland is not striking out or popping up with men on base, and leyland is not coming on in the 8th inning and forgetting how to throw a strike. I get that a manager has to take some of the blame when a team is under-preforming, but if gibson or francona, or gardenhire were the manager you think all of a sudden it would be all kittens and rainbows?

Seriously, the old shtick is getting stupid, blame the people who are playing like shit, have the balls to say prince and cabrera have not carried their load, and that out bullpen is pitching bad, and that delmon and boesch have no patience.

You're like a musician who plays 1 note only, and it's called fire leyland. It's a boring tune.

lol!!!

 

[tonyballs]

Everyone bring up Gibson too, I'd love to hear the reasoning he's be better then Leyland other than he was everyone's childhood hero.

I mean i know he turned around a horrible team and surprised everyone by taking them to the playoffs and won manager of the year, hmm almost sounds familiar...like 2006 familiar....

Of course that's why everyone wanted Gibson!! He is a hometown hero, but he's also younger and is a very good manager.

Leyland's gotta go. Plain and fn simple....

 

[papacrick]

I don't know everything but I do know that if Joe Maddon was managing the Tigers right now, no freakin way they are under .500

 

[Thumb]

I don't know everything but I do know that if Joe Maddon was managing the Tigers right now, no freakin way they are under .500

And how do you know this?

 

[durtymrclean]

Because Joe Maddon consistently has the 3rd least talented team in his division yet wins 90 games despite that.

 

[mjsb2]

Tampa has the best GM in baseball that's why the win 90 games.

That said, I do like Maddon over Leyland as a manager.