Girardi's Head Rolls (split from LOL Yankees)

[Benjamin Grimm]

41Forever wrote: So what's the real reason he's getting the boot, and what happened to MLB's "no news during the World Series" edict?

I always understood the rule to be no news that will interfere with game coverage. I think it was okay for the Yankees to fire Girardi on a travel day.

But did they in fact announce anything? Or did this story leak out?

[Ceetar]

41Forever wrote: So what's the real reason he's getting the boot, and what happened to MLB's "no news during the World Series" edict?

it was never really an edict and it went out the window years ago.

[Edgy MD]

The funny thing is that the edict was issued in response to the Yankees firing of a manager.

Like, back in 1985 or something.

[Frayed Knot]

Besides, it's an off day.

[MFS62]

d'Kong76 wrote: He lives in Westchester, not that millionaires can't have two homes.

And he is said to have a third, on Candlewood Lake, because he is frequently seen, and photographed, at the local pizzeria here in my home CT town (as I may have mentioned in one of the pizza threads) and the pictures show up in the local weekly paper.
I've planned that if and when I see him, I'd say, "I remember you when you were a backup catcher on the Cubs".

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[Guest 41Forever]

Mike & Mike today, briefly acknowledging that baseball exists, discussed the Girardi dismissal, and noted that someone described him as "a closed fist." The suggestion was that Cashman wanted someone to guide the next generation of MFYs who wasn't quite as uptight.

[Valadius]

Word out of DC is that the Nats are out on Girardi because they don't believe in paying their managers big contracts.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, money was a bigger reason for the Nats not re-upping Baker than it was for the Yanx not re-upping Girardi so there's not way Washington is going to swap one out for the other. Girardi was
already higher paid than Dusty and, being younger, is also going to want a longer term deal.
Recently canned Red Sox mgr John Farrell is going to interview with the Nats but beyond that I'm not sure where they're going.

Both these cases are interesting in that the teams are going to wind up with managers with a lot less experience than the ones they just got rid of which, considering the expectations -- one team stacked
with young players and being one win from getting to the WS, while the other is coming off 94 & 97 win seasons and entering the final year of both Harper's and Murphy's deals -- the stakes for both are
only going to ratchet up from here.

[Frayed Knot]

Francesa probably saw this coming ... Yes, but is only revealing now that he knew it all along.

Turns out we're both prescient:
From Phil Mushnick's NY Post column today: ... after Francesa mistreated a caller "as a know-nothing" for suggesting last week that Girardi could be out ... once Girardi’s removal was announced Francesa
then "claimed he knew as far back as July that the Girardi-Yankees relationship was near its contentious end! And he knew it when their eyes met during the ALCS in Yankee Stadium!"

[Guest d'Kong76]

Frayed Knot wrote: "... he knew it when their eyes met during the ALCS in Yankee Stadium!"

A restless eye across a weary room
A glazed look, that's when Mike saw the road to ruin

[MFS62]

That blowhard reminds me of the famous Lucy (from Peanuts) line:
"I never make mistakes. I thought I made one once, but I was wrong".

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