Gardenhire Fired

[Lou]

Discuss

[CAAngelsLifer]

Happily! (see my thread fail from earlier). 

 

With all the coaching openings happening, can someone please take Gary off our hands?  DiSar would make a great Astros/Twins/DBacks coach. 

[Jobu]

Discuss

No thanks.

[Lou]

No thanks.

 

Discuss!!!

 

he'll get hired right away

[Jobu]

Do we need a bullpen coach?

[CAAngelsLifer]

Discuss!!!

 

he'll get hired right away

 

garden hired. 

[DB24]

Texas bound?

[WallyWorld]

basically the Scioscia of the midwest. Seems like a genuinely good guy, great manager, probably some outdated ideas/methods and things that drive hardcore fans crazy (but what doesn't drive hardcore fans crazy?). Not like he's had a ton to work with the past few years. Will be interesting to see where he lands.

[CAAngelsLifer]

Gardenfired. 

[Lou]

Do we need a bullpen coach?

 

only when our bp sucks

[Bruce Nye]

This is a surprise firing.  

[floplag]

little surprising, makes me wonder if he asked out.
sounds like something Tex will be all over, which im not happy about as i think hes much better than Wash ever was

[Lhalo]

It's official. 

 

[Tyler]

Dumb move by the Twins, imo. That team needs on field talent.

[eligrba]

Yep,

 

Dumb move by the Twins.

 

This only will continue their downward spiral......

[DowningRules]

This requires a mention of the "Hitler was a more gentle lover" post in a Twins board thread regarding Hitler Vs. Gardenhire many years ago.

[greginpsca]

Agree! This was a really dumb move by the Twins. I think he will have a new employer within 30 days.

[nando714]

Dino Ebel to Texas

Gardy new bench coach in Anaheim

[Blarg]

Four straight years of last place finishes, the Twins needed to go a different direction. Of course the new guy is getting four straight years of high draft picks to work with as they mature so you would expect by default the roster will improve unless they were tragically bad drafting.

[Tank]

This requires a mention of the "Hitler was a more gentle lover" post in a Twins board thread regarding Hitler Vs. Gardenhire many years ago.

 

Bwahahahaha! that thread was pure genious. someone found it on a twins board and linked it here, and it was some of the funniest stuff i can remember seeing. "hitler had a better SS."

[Troll Daddy]

Twins wanted a new look and Gardenhire will be a top seed to get hired this coming off season.

 

 

end of story

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I can't see him being unemployed for long. He wasn't given a lot to work with in Minnesota. The only surprising thing is that the Twins tend not to fire managers when the team performs poorly, as other teams routinely do.

[Taylor]

[ukyah]

i've always thought of him as a good manager, but it's not like i'm privy to his season long managereal decisions. as others have said, i'm kinda surprised and i don't think he'll be looking for work very long

Edited September 29, 2014 by ukyah

[Chimi]

Twins had a pretty good offense this year. They were able to score runs. Problem was they had one of the worst pitching staffs in the league and gave up a ton of runs.@