Paddy Power New Manager Poll/Betting

[metirish]

Pete Rose getting his bet in

Names are been thrown about the place like confetti at a wedding

The latest odds out of Ireland are

A cardboard cut out of a man that looks like a manager 3/1

Bob Melvin - 4/1

Wally Backman - 25/1

Chip Hale - 4/1

Ken Oberkfell - 20/1

Lee Mazzilli - 30/1

Clint Hurdle - 15/1

Pete Mackanin - 25/1

Bobby Valentine - 30/1

Don Wakamatsu - 30/1

Terry Collins - 10/1

DeMarlo Hale - 40/1



Look, these numbers will surely change after the press conference with Alderson today, but you see the trend, low key is the key.

[TransMonk]

I went with Clint.

My wishes are Valentine followed by anyone but Backman.

[Guest Edgy DC]

My wishes are Valentine, but I'm projecting Collins. The wigs know his work in the Mets system and Alderson has seen plenty of him in the AL West.

Like Alderson, he'd also be coming out of semi-retirement for the "right situation."

[seawolf17]

Wish Valentine, expect Melvin.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I voted Mackanin.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Going for the Big Payoff on Mazzilli, but today I think the smart $ is on Chip Hale.

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: My wishes are Valentine, but I'm projecting Collins. The wigs know his work in the Mets system and Alderson has seen plenty of him in the AL West. Like Alderson, he'd also be coming out of semi-retirement for the "right situation."

This has swayed me to Collins, I was going to wager on Melvin.

[MFS62]

I voted Oberkfell.
But I would be equally as happy with Hurdle.
I hope they don't try to pass off Maz as a "true Met" after he became a turncoat for the MFYs.

Later

[Guest sharpie]

I'm going Hale because someone has to.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I'm starting to lean toward Clint Hurdle.

Mets connection: Check
Managerial experience: Check
Success as a manager: Check
No reputation for drama: Check
Fiery loathing of all things Yankee and Jeter: Check
Sweet 1970s van: Check



OK, I'm speculating on one of those, and may have been misled on another....

[Benjamin Grimm]

Michigan sure has been milking his February BOC title!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

http://badaltitude.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1203093.html

There aren't many teams in the majors that witlessly prioritize smallball more than Clint Hurdle and the Rockies, but the White Sox are one ...

I mean, if Alderson holds true to form, the next Skipper won't go using too many of his own ideas if they're dumb ones anyway, but Hurdle kinda scares me some.

I'm feeling a Hale storm coming on.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I like the odds on Obie.

But I think we's about to get Melvin-ed.

[Valadius]

I'm going with none of the above. None of them impress me.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Valadius wrote: I'm going with none of the above. None of them impress me.

Not for nothing, but that's how I felt about Davey Johnson around this time in 1983.

[Valadius]

You know, as I think about it, if Sandy wants a manager without an independent streak or ingenuity, we're going to wind up with the second coming of The Robot, Jerry Manuel.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm certainly not impressed with Jerry's performance, but I wouldn't describe him that way at all.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Vlad's here to remind me I was paying attention.

[metirish]

Val , you can vote for the cardboard cut out.

[Valadius]

I did vote for the cardboard cut-out.

[metirish]

"I can appreciate a fiery manager. I think a fiery manager is quite desirable."

with these words the odds makers are going crazy, revised odds


A cardboard cut out of a man that looks like a manager 3/1

Bob Melvin - 5/1

Wally Backman - 6/1

Chip Hale - 4/1

Ken Oberkfell - 10/1

Lee Mazzilli - 12/1

Clint Hurdle - 15/1

Pete Mackanin - 25/1

Bobby Valentine - 8/1

Don Wakamatsu - 50/1

Terry Collins - 10/1

DeMarlo Hale - 40/1

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gibbons back in the photo also.

[metirish]

"intellectual , intuitive and emotional " that's what he wants in a manager


new odds on Valentine

5/1

[Guest Edgy DC]

People who lined up at the window at 30-1 are really starting to push.

[ashie62]

My money is on Melvin.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: http://badaltitude.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1203093.html There aren't many teams in the majors that witlessly prioritize smallball more than Clint Hurdle and the Rockies ...

Smallball is, indeed, witless. Smallball in Denver is reprehensible. If I ran Denver baseballl, my sharpshooters, perched atop the stadium light towers, would shoot to kill any sac-bunters.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I don't know that I've ever heard anyone else in a position to hire one talk about the idea of the manager as surrogate for the fans.

[ashie62]

I'm not used to seeing the word "surrogate" in context with baseball.

[Guest Kong76]

Just got the word, Valentine, press conference on Wednesday.
You heard it here first.

[Guest themetfairy]

Kong76 wrote: Just got the word, Valentine, press conference on Wednesday. You heard it here first.

For real?