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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

He has been mediocre for about 8 years. He had one of the best teams ever put together(from 1996-1999.) He had the right style to manage dominant talent. He doesn't have the right style to manage lazy people. I have a real disagreement with you over the "great manager" premise. He is gunna have to motivate a very lazy group here. These people don't have the inner desire to fight every nite. It either comes from him and his staff, or this bunch will come 2nd or 3rd each year, because this is a settling bunch of individuals. That group across from them last night has been scoring (in direct counter assault) whenever another team scores on them. Some call that scoring at will, but it isn't. It is scoring when somebody wants to take what you want. They have that desire. That's something Torre and his staff have been unable to instill in people for about 8 years.I've been watching this guy manage for about 2/3 of a season. I've seen most of the games. I once thought the guy had some part in those Yankee Championships. I don't think he had nearly as much to do with those as he had to do with their playoff loses in this century.Now I know why they went out early in those playoff series. He can't motivate talented people that are mentally weak. He has had the talent. He can't motivate it. You can get results from talented people in 2 ways.The Parcells way, or the Lasorda way. Everything else is in between those extremes. He does a half-a-s-s lukewarm Lasorda thing that doesn't work. Worked great with huge talent '96-'99, but hasn't worked before, or since.

Jesus.





I was being sarcastic.



80 to 90% of managers are interchangeable..ie.....they would make no difference to a team. The rest split as being incompetent and very good.


Difference makers.