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Originally Posted by oracle80
Timm Randall's post is DEAD ON!!! and a lot more symptomatic of the state of baseball than anyone realizes. I can't believe noone is more upset about it, not because Girardi is a bad guy, but because baseball was the last sport left that hadn't celebrated mediocrity a few years ago, and now it does.
The famous line that in any given year a team will win 40 games and lose 40 games, and its what they do with the other 80 games that matters applies here.
To be .500 in baseball used to mean you had a bad year but that maybe the manager would keep his job and so would most of the players. Since when exactly do we start celebrating managers as manager of the year who finish BELOW 500???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll tell you when, when teams like the Marlins Astros and Cards make the World Series in recent years.
Anytime you change the makeup and let twice as many teams into the playoffs as you used to, you lower the bar. And thats across the board.
How sickening is it that the greatest game known to man is now placing rings on the hands that "battled" to a 13th place regular season mark, and awarding manager of the year to a guy whose team couldn't break 500?
Its absolutely sickening.
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Big-O: to be fair..I don't think Girardi had much to work with..so that could contribute to his favor(also the way the Marlins treated him). To Girardis' detriment, I've heard that he was pretty hard to deal with,especially the GM and scouts. Actually...I wouldn't have minded Willie getting the award..he's a good baseball guy!