Girardi's Head Rolls (split from LOL Yankees)

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Girardi OUT. I'm guessing that WSH offers him a contract. That makes 3 playoff managers from this year who are out of a job.

[Edgy MD]

WOWBOBWOW!

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

How does this square with "likeable overachieving underdogs" making an improbable run to game 7 of the ALCS? If any of that were true, shouldn't the manager be rewarded?

[dgwphotography]

I think this was his call to walk away. I don't see him going to Washington, though. I think he'll land in Florida, closer to home.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Any doubt the MFY's kept this one quiet until the Mets were Calloway'd? Just in case?

[dgwphotography]

Wow - I just heard that it was the Yankees who weren't bringing him back - Just wow.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Also, I realized this #LOLYankees thread was missing this beauty of a swing. There's a slow-mo after the regular-mo, too.

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[Edgy MD]

He's already done the Florida thing. Got along terribly with his bosses there. Do you think he and Jeter have a relationship strong enough to fire Mattingly over?

As far as sitting on this until the Mets left the marketplace, sure, why not? But that also means sitting on it until several other teams had snatched candidates off the shelves also. Hey, Yankees, sure, the Mets won't get Girardi, but now you won't get Calloway. Suckers.

[Centerfield]

Maybe it serves us right that our 2017 MFY thread was titled "LOL Yankees" and they were one fucking game away from the World Series.

In 2018 lets' just go back to calling them dickheads.

[Edgy MD]

Yankee fans I'm talking to seem to think the search will be quick and it'll be Jay Bell's job.

[dgwphotography]

Edgy MD wrote: He's already done the Florida thing. Got along terribly with his bosses there. Do you think he and Jeter have a relationship strong enough to fire Mattingly over? As far as sitting on this until the Mets left the marketplace, sure, why not? But that also means sitting on it until several other teams had snatched candidates off the shelves also. Hey, Yankees, sure, the Mets won't get Girardi, but now you won't get Calloway. Suckers.

The Florida theory only had legs while I thought that it was his call to walk away.

As for the MFY's waiting to announce this, I wonder if they already have a name in mind.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Centerfield wrote: Maybe it serves us right that our 2017 MFY thread was titled "LOL Yankees" and they were one fucking game away from the World Series.

This is the part I didn't get either and was biting my lip all along to refrain from commenting on. The team was a hair away from winning the pennant and going to the WS and you're all mocking them because your 70 win team .... did what exactly?

[Frayed Knot]

Girardi is originally a Chicago guy. The Cubs are set but the White Sox are stocking up on prospects lately and may be a good landing spot for him in a year or two.

This year's Yanx actually under-achieved their pythagorean projection by a whopping Nine games as their RS/RA ratio [858 / 660] suggested they should have been a 100 win team this season
instead of the 91 they actually won. I doubt that that alone was enough to sway MFY mgmt especially since it was coming off the 2016 when they managed 84 wins despite a negative RS/RA

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is the part I didn't get either and was biting my lip all along to refrain from commenting on. The team was a hair away from winning the pennant and going to the WS and you're all mocking them because your 70 win team .... did what exactly?

Well the thread was titled back in [crossout]February or so[/crossout] late January so it's not like the season results were in at that point.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Girardi is originally a Chicago guy. The Cubs are set but the White Sox are stocking up on prospects lately and may be a good landing spot for him in a year or two. This year's Yanx actually under-achieved their pythagorean projection by a whopping Nine games as their RS/RA ratio [858 / 660] suggested they should have been a 100 win team this season instead of the 91 they actually won. I doubt that that alone was enough to sway MFY mgmt especially since it was coming off the 2016 when they managed 84 wins despite a negative RS/RA

Do you think the Pythagorean differential is a good metric to judge a manager on? It's a useful tool and should be part of the conversation, I guess, but I have my doubts.

If the team wins a game by knocking out the pitcher early, and then runs up a 17-2 score against increasingly weaker pitchers (which seemed to happen with unusual frequency in this highly volatile season), but they lose 6-5 the next day, they look bad Pythagoras-wise. But were they? I don't know.

I know you're not saying that, but I'm asking.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Do you think the Pythagorean differential is a good metric to judge a manager on?

Not particularly. It's why I said that I doubt the front office was going to hang that on him because if they did they'd have to totally ignore his 'over' achievement the previous season.
I mean I suppose one could rationalize saying that the manager won "only" 7 more games out of a team which just improved from -20 runs to +198 over one season (as the '16 to '17 Yanx did) so whatsupwitdat?
but I think that's missing several forests while examining trees.

[metsmarathon]

i feel like they're going to bring in dusty baker....

[Guest d'Kong76]

dgwphotography wrote: I think he'll land in Florida, closer to home.

He lives in Westchester, not that millionaires can't have two homes.

If I were him I'd retire. After nine years of being the manager of the best, most
successful, most respected, most ring-wearin', most patriotic, most roll-calling, and
most monument parked, most intangibled and most numbers retired sports franchise
how could you look yourself in the mirror and shave in the morning and go manage the
Marlins or the Nationals?

Go away Joe, and take that smirky puss with you. Oh, and LOL Yankees.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is the part I didn't get either and was biting my lip all along to refrain from commenting on. The team was a hair away from winning the pennant and going to the WS and you're all mocking them because your 70 win team .... did what exactly? Well the thread was titled back in [crossout]February or so[/crossout] late January so it's not like the season results were in at that point.

That's so hubris.

[Ceetar]

better hope I don't get to the 2018 thread first, because I'm thinking of circus-themed thread titles taunting them and their dysfunctional organization.

REEKS of Steinbrenner meddling. nostalgic if that nostalgia time wasn't mostly before I was aware of it.

The Red Sox fired their playoff manager, the Yankees gotta keep pace.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Sitting here wondering what the Steingrabber Era would have been like if he
had a Twitter account to punch Billy daily in the face with.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He'd probably be considered a Presidential contender.

[Guest 41Forever]

Centerfield wrote: Maybe it serves us right that our 2017 MFY thread was titled "LOL Yankees" and they were one fucking game away from the World Series. In 2018 lets' just go back to calling them dickheads.

The thread was called "LOL Yankees" because I was poking fun at the hideous spring training caps they had just unveiled.

Supposedly this is the Yankees' new spring training cap. Not even St. Derek could make this better. Though if you placed the cap on the ground between third and second if would have more range than Jeter did. That said, I haven't seen the Mets new spring cap. Hopefully it's not this bad. I'm sad that Mr. Met is being removed from the blue jerseys.

[metirish]

Francesa probably saw this coming , anyone tuning into him?

[Guest d'Kong76]

41Forever wrote: The thread was called "LOL Yankees" because I was poking fun at the hideous spring training caps they had just unveiled.

Si, y Los Mets de Nueva York were equally LOL'd...

d'Kong76 wrote: LOL Mets

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Francesa probably saw this coming ...

Yes, but is only revealing now that he knew it all along.

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY will miss his insight, ya know he called the Kennedy assassination.

[Guest 41Forever]

d'Kong76 wrote: The thread was called "LOL Yankees" because I was poking fun at the hideous spring training caps they had just unveiled. Si, y Los Mets de Nueva York were equally LOL'd... d'Kong76 wrote: LOL Mets

I love that cap! It was hard to find. It was my go-to cap all season!

[Guest 41Forever]

So what's the real reason he's getting the boot, and what happened to MLB's "no news during the World Series" edict?

[Guest d'Kong76]

No accounting for taste (or lack thereof) haha...