Dear Don,
Please come to the Atlanta Braves. Our current manager does not know how to play baseball and can only coach Hispanic players.
Signed,
Loyal Braves Fan
I heard somewhere Bobby Cox could take a World Series Team and get you a division title. There is a lot of truth there and he didn’t want whoever came after to be a better manager than him. So now we have Freddy Gonzalez who, in his first year of management, ruined O’Flarity and Venters using them reflexively every day out of the bull pen whether it made any sense or not. Managing baseball is very simple if you only know righty-lefty matchups.
I wish the Braves would hire Donny Baseball. Apparently in the playoffs many of the fielding setups including the “Shift” were made from the GM box and not by Mattingly. It was a Chicken move to bat Utley in the 9th inning when the Mets couldn’t afford to drill him. Next year.
I was thinking Miami Marlins, but the Braves would be a good fit too, and both teams are underperforming.
Full disclosure: Rays fan all the way, with the zillion injuries we had, making it to one under .500 in the AL East was no mean feat, especially since the Jays bought their way into the postseason--not complaining about that, only pointing out that if they don't get past the Royals today, they won't have much in the tank for next year.
As a fellow Braves fan I second that.