Riggleman Quits (split from 6/23 IGT)

[bmfc1]

Nationals Manager Riggleman just quit.

[metirish]

bmfc1 wrote: Nationals Manager Riggleman just quit.

does it still count if it's the wrong thread?

[TransMonk]

BOC!

Lot's of WTFs behind the Riggleman tweets.

[Ceetar]

So Terry is now the 27th longest tenured manager. really climbing the list fast.

[G-Fafif]

Riggleman apparently pissed about his contract situation. Midseason, team on a roll...selfish quitter would be my talk radio assessment.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Whoah! Nice play, Jim Riggleman. Way to go out.

Now he's one step closer to replacing Joe Girardi.

[TransMonk]

What a deflating event for the players on the team. You win 11 out of 12 and are over .500, then your manager quits.

What a dipshit.

[metirish]

His Wikipedia page is updated already , maybe he did that first and then quit.

I bet he'll be manager with another MLB team but the ALL-Star break.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

bmfc1 wrote: Nationals Manager Riggleman just quit.

Crazy, man. Hopefully they hire Jerry Manuel.

[TransMonk]

And not Bobby V.

[metirish]

Rizzo could be the dipshit here right?

[G-Fafif]

Riggleman is one play-in game from 13 years ago removed from being Dave Bristol credentialswise, yet he's being hailed as Vince Lombardi industrywide.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: Riggleman apparently pissed about his contract situation. Midseason, team on a roll...selfish quitter would be my talk radio assessment.

Except that Riggleman works in Washington and so the talk radio take on his situation will be ... that one of the Redskins ordered waffles for breakfast rather than his usual pancakes and what that means for the upcoming season.

[bmfc1]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: bmfc1 wrote: Nationals Manager Riggleman just quit. Crazy, man. Hopefully they hire Jerry Manuel.

Excellent.

[TransMonk]

Rizzo may be a dipshit too, but as a major league manager, you are a leader of men...and to quit on them is pretty shitty.

Yeah, Riggleman probably deserved some joib security and compensation, but he's already got a contract for this season...fight those battles in the offseason.

[TransMonk]

Frayed Knot wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Riggleman apparently pissed about his contract situation. Midseason, team on a roll...selfish quitter would be my talk radio assessment. Except that Riggleman works in Washington and so the talk radio take on his situation will be ... that one of the Redskins ordered waffles for breakfast rather than his usual pancakes and what that means for the upcoming season.

Those 17 Nationals fans will be pissed.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I support him. His bluff was called and he had to follow through.

It's unlikely he'll ever be in a better position this season.

[G-Fafif]

Picturing Riggleman and Edwin Rodriguez bumping into each other.

"Hey Edwin, I heard you resigned."
"Yeah, I couldn't take the constant losing. What about you?"
"I couldn't take the constant winning."
"Go fuck yourself."

[bmfc1]

I wonder if he's on his way to the Marlins. Jim Bowden tweeted that this is the end of Riggleman's managerial career.

[Guest Edgy DC]

When Mr. Riggleman gets upset, people DIE!

[metirish]

Sherman can't help himself, he's an asshole

Who is advising Riggelman: 1) The Mets. 2) Tiki Barber. 3) A-Rod. That move was so dumb, what could Plan B have been #Nationals

[Guest attgig]

craziness. craziness craziness...

maybe rizzo is trying to make the nats lose, so he can trade off the expensive guys and build for the future...

[bmfc1]

Hopefully they won't hire Davey--he's on the Nationals payroll.

[metirish]

Bench coach John McCLaren takes over , looking at his wiki page I notice he like Roggleman was born in Fort Dix.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

bmfc1 wrote: I wonder if he's on his way to the Marlins. Jim Bowden tweeted that this is the end of Riggleman's managerial career.

Bowden should know what that sort of thing looks like.

[HahnSolo]

There is a certain ex-major league skipper in the Nats' front office with whom we are all quite familiar. And he wouldn't even be the oldest manager in the division.

[metirish]

HahnSolo wrote: There is a certain ex-major league skipper in the Nats' front office with whom we are all quite familiar. And he wouldn't even be the oldest manager in the division.

apparently he is very tight with Riggleman and is sensitive to that , McClaren is a "very interim" manager until they can get someone for the remainder of the season.

[Benjamin Grimm]

What the hell... I'll do it.

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: What the hell... I'll do it.

I like it......shoot, bring back the head of Ted Williams , it would tie in nicely with the history there and it's not like he could look any worse in uniform than McKeon.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Also worth noting is that the Nats, reeling from a previous regime that allowed an out-of-control scouting and development system to fester, have lost two minor leaguers in six days to drug-policy suspensions.