Posted on 09/30/2025 3:01:09 PM PDT by Mariner
Bruce Bochy and the Texas Rangers announced on Monday evening what has been expected for the past several months when the two parties said they like each other, but not enough to stay together.
Not quite Keith Urban/Nicole Kidman-level split, but a split nonetheless.
While announcing that Bochy’s run as the team’s manager is over, they announced that they have offered the 70-year-old future Hall of Famer a spot with their club as an advisor. Don’t expect him to take it.
He sounds like a man who wants to remain on the bench, and there are openings already with other big league clubs. However this tenure ended, Bochy did what he was hired to do by leading the club to its first ever World Series. The Rangers don’t win that title without Bochy.
On a conference call with the local media on Monday night, Rangers GM Chris Young said, “Boch’ will forever be a legend in Texas Rangers history.”
Forget Texas Rangers history. Bruce Bochy led the Rangers to a World Series title. That makes him an American legend, a baseball hero.
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He is the only person to hit a walk off HR off Nolan Ryan.
His protege in SF is luring him back (internet conjecture) with pledges of winning committment and a boatload of money to spend.
Getting the band back together...
And now the Rangers join the Mavericks and Cowboys in the dumb moves department.
I think Bochy would eventually love to retire as a part of the Giants, in whatever capacity.
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman split?
For decades managers have claimed they look forward to spending more time with their families.
Families soon say “I wish you’d get a job. We’re sick of you hanging around being crabby with us.”
Then the first good job offer and it’s “So long, I am outta here.”
When Sparky Anderson was let go from the Cincinnati Reds after bring them a World Series victory in 1975 and 1976, he said the next year “I learned that the great game of baseball kept going and got along just fine without me. Really fine.”
Got the job with the Detroit Tigers and won the World Series in 1984. First time anyone managed a team in both leagues for a championship.
The Giants are an evil organization. Send them back to Tampa.
The Giants are an evil organization. Send them back to Tampa.
The Giants are an evil organization. Send them back to Tampa.
The Giants are an evil organization. Send them back to Tampa.
FreeRepublic is slow. You need to click post more than once to see 2 posts. Bochy can’t fix the team. He won’t have Cain, Linsicum, and Baumgadner.
LOL!
That was the main question I took from this article also.
Washington Capitals too
I don’t want them to succeed. Those colliders should fail at everything.
Just after that the Padres began their traditional second half swoon and that's all we had to remember for the '85 season.
Ted Leightner, an announcer for the team, along with Jerry Coleman, on the radio, made an offhand comment one time, that Bochy had the biggest head he ever saw, literally. He said his batter's helmet had to be custom made because no standard molds were big enough.
Thanks for the chuckle and the info! :)
“First time anyone managed a team in both leagues for a championship.”
Now Bochy has done it.
True. Not an easy goal to reach.
When I’m king, writer who use tortured metaphors like that in the headline but omit any mention of it in the text of the article will be summarily flogged.
Looks like magic may be afoot...
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/bruce-bochy-open-conversation-buster-201411861.html
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