mtangelsfan

The contract is just some random qualifier that claude put in there to make Sosh seem less hirable.

All of it, it's your opinion. Not fact. Talk about denial

All complete conjecture.

What I find interesting about Showalter is how his teams win right after he leaves. Not saying he isn't a good manager, but as far as rating managers and how good/bad they are, it's pretty much entirely based on opinion.

That is your opinion. Showalter has been fired three times, and has never won a championship.

Orioles, Mets, Royals, Rockies, Astros, Giants, Blue Jays, Marlins. Just off the top of my head.

What? What makes you think he can be a succesful MLB shortstop with the pedigree of Eckstein?

Four pitchers with big question marks, One was coming off minor surgery, one was a total gamble due to injury, one had declining numbers and one had sucked for years. Sure he brought in four pitchers, but it doesn't mean he made it a priority.

Ok, I will restate. We don't have the pitching to compete right now. Maybe Dipoto changes that next season but it certainly doesn't seem to have been much of a priority for him up to this point.

Dammit! Missed my acne joke by less than a minute. Curse you fan!!!!

I'm surprised it wasn't the oil companies. Regardless, this isn't as simplistic as he makes it. There are always going to be people or groups putting undue influence on politicians. This has been happening long before corporate lobbyists even existed.

I bet you would, bittermen always wish the worst on folks.

While I think that Dipoto and Sosh don't see baseball quite the same way I think the supposed discord between them is severely overblown.

You are delusional if you think Sosh can't be successful as a MLB manager. He may have lost his voice here, but that doesn't mean he has lost it overall. I think the bag over your head is giving you myopia

No doubt.

Fair enough. For me I just don't think it's going to help the Angels short term or long term to bring in another manager. First, I still remember how many managers we went through as an orgnaization before Sosh came along. It was never a successful way to go. Second, we just don't have the players to compete right now or the farm to make it so. Regardless, I'm guessing the writing is on the wall and Sosh will be gone. I'm ok with it and ok with giving Dipoto one more season. But I do not like what I have seen so far. Not too many teams can be highly successful with crappy pitching and he have had that in spades with Dipoto at the helm.

No suspension. I seriously don't get how this isn't worse than roiding up.

You don't think he could be successful with his kind of players Nate? (note: this is a trick question)

Bring back Terry Collins!!!! lol

Superfan/strawman

Just keep being bitter.

Said by whom? I'm sure Sosh fills out the lineup card, nobody here is making an argument that he doesn't. I'm just saying that the GM should, would and does have a say in that. It would be ridiculous to think otherwise.

You would be wrong, I honestly can't see the logic at all in what you think is going on with Angels managememt. Seriously, what kind of pussy do you think Dipoto must be to have his employee do the opposite of what you told him to do and do nothing about it?

I think your dislike for Sosh's style of baseball is clouding your judgement. You like the sabermetric style, that's fine. Sosh wouldn't be your favorite kind of manager. I get that. Just don't toss out logic because of it.

Let's not play the backhanded compliment game, ok? I think there is constant communication about what a player (employer) is brought in for. I think when a player is brought in a gm speaks to the manager about why they were brought in. It's that way everywhere Nate, why would you think baseball would be different?