CNNsi: Dusty expects to be fired

[Banedon]

Dusty Baker is telling friends he expects to be fired ... not that he thinks he deserves it. With so many openings expected elsewhere, it shouldn't take Baker long to find work.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/08/28/al.busts/1.html

 

In the same article, they rank A-rod as the #1 AL disappointment. :roll:

[C.C.]

Dusty Baker is telling friends he expects to be fired ... not that he thinks he deserves it. With so many openings expected elsewhere, it shouldn't take Baker long to find work.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/08/28/al.busts/1.html

 

In the same article, they rank A-rod as the #1 AL disappointment. :roll:

 

I saw this last night...

[rawaction]

Well, they are wrong. He won't be fired, because he's not under contract after this year. He just won't be re-signed, renewed, or re-hired.

[C.C.]

Well, they are wrong. He won't be fired, because he's not under contract after this year. He just won't be re-signed, renewed, or re-hired.

 

Small details...

[Banedon]

Well, they are wrong. He won't be fired, because he's not under contract after this year. He just won't be re-signed, renewed, or re-hired.

 

See my thread in rants... :P

[UMFan83]

Dusty Baker is telling friends he expects to be fired ... not that he thinks he deserves it. With so many openings expected elsewhere, it shouldn't take Baker long to find work.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/08/28/al.busts/1.html

 

In the same article, they rank A-rod as the #1 AL disappointment. :roll:

 

Awesome, thats only 28 other teams we have to compete with now.

[Electron Blue]

Dusty Baker is telling friends he expects to be fired ... not that he thinks he deserves it. With so many openings expected elsewhere, it shouldn't take Baker long to find work.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/jon_heyman/08/28/al.busts/1.html

 

In the same article, they rank A-rod as the #1 AL disappointment. :roll:

 

I consider myself pretty open-minded, but I'm not even going to click that link to give the article a chance if it's carrying on BBTN's quest to make Arod's "struggles" this year into a story of this size. jeez.

[soccer10k]

Well, they are wrong. He won't be fired, because he's not under contract after this year. He just won't be re-signed, renewed, or re-hired.

 

Bingo. I've been saying for a while that Dusty wouldn't get fired this year and that the best case scenario for Dusty-haters would be Hendry just letting Dusty go at the end of the year.

 

But it's all just semantics.

[oldstyle81]

Well, they are wrong. He won't be fired, because he's not under contract after this year. He just won't be re-signed, renewed, or re-hired.

 

Bingo. I've been saying for a while that Dusty wouldn't get fired this year and that the best case scenario for Dusty-haters would be Hendry just letting Dusty go at the end of the year.

 

But it's all just semantics.

 

though id love to see him gone now, there isint much a point of getting a new guy with 1 month left

[Outshined_One]

though id love to see him gone now, there isint much a point of getting a new guy with 1 month left

 

Heck, make Chris Speier the interim coach and let the minor league coaches come up and see what they can do. At worst, you offer them their old jobs in the offseason.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Although id love to see him gone now, there isint much a point of getting a new guy with 1 month left

 

Anything to save Z's arm from further damage.

[soccer10k]

though id love to see him gone now, there isint much a point of getting a new guy with 1 month left

 

Heck, make Chris Speier the interim coach and let the minor league coaches come up and see what they can do. At worst, you offer them their old jobs in the offseason.

 

Can Speier see straight enough to fill out a lineup card?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

though id love to see him gone now, there isint much a point of getting a new guy with 1 month left

 

Heck, make Chris Speier the interim coach and let the minor league coaches come up and see what they can do. At worst, you offer them their old jobs in the offseason.

 

Can Speier see straight enough to fill out a lineup card?

 

I still fail to see the downside. Imagine the confusion of the players trying to figure out if the scribbled out lineup card is saying Pagan or Novoa at 2B.

[soccer10k]

though id love to see him gone now, there isint much a point of getting a new guy with 1 month left

 

Heck, make Chris Speier the interim coach and let the minor league coaches come up and see what they can do. At worst, you offer them their old jobs in the offseason.

 

Can Speier see straight enough to fill out a lineup card?

 

I still fail to see the downside. Imagine the confusion of the players trying to figure out if the scribbled out lineup card is saying Pagan or Novoa at 2B.

 

Good point.

[Outshined_One]

I still fail to see the downside. Imagine the confusion of the players trying to figure out if the scribbled out lineup card is saying Pagan or Novoa at 2B.

 

The comedy potential would be off the charts.

 

...and he'd still be a better manager than Dusty.