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L.A. Angels Fire Manager Brad Ausmus After 90-Loss Season
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| September 30, 2019
| Chip Yost
Posted on 09/30/2019 3:23:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:23:40 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
This is ALL to hire Joe Madden the Cubs ex-manager. He is a former member of the Angels organization and they are slobbering to hire him.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:26:20 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(We are living in the Last Days. The Bible says so, and I believe it!! Know Him now!!)
To: RetiredArmy
Yep. I read just the other day, they intended to keep him for at least one more season.. I assumed he had to be in trouble when he seemed to have to explain his decisions to his players during the game.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:30:37 PM PDT
by
Yogafist
To: RetiredArmy
They can have Maddon. The Cubs tanked the last 2 seasons right at the end. The fans wanted his head.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:32:12 PM PDT
by
AlmaKing
To: RetiredArmy
Whats ironic is that a baseball manager is less relevant today than ever before. Today, the manager is just a guy who does what the GMs computer programs tell him to do.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:32:38 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
To: BenLurkin
Typically when a team loses consistently, the owner looks to new coaching. If a team wins consistently, the owner will attempt to keep the coaching staff in place.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:34:55 PM PDT
by
Yogafist
The main problems with pro sports are, ultimately you 'go to war with the army you have', and no amount of coaching can change the budget of the team or injuries etc, and of course the B) on this is, the owner can't be fired. It's the owner making the coaching personnel decisions.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:40:53 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: RetiredArmy
I think you are correct. Joe took the big ZOT from the Cubs pretty well it appeared....almost like the he knew he had the Angels, or someone else’s, manager gig already lined up. We will see I guess.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:41:21 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: BenLurkin
Mike Scioscia managed the Angels for how many seasons? Brad Ausmus got one. Maybe they are going to go after Joe Madden.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:48:35 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: BenLurkin
I remember my dad taking me to Angel games. We lived in nearby Orange and it was a ten-minute drive. We were usually able to get the Club Section seats, usually the section right next to the press box where Dick Enberg, who started his stellar baseball career in 1969, and Don Wells, the original color announcer, announced the games. We attended games all the way to my last year in high school (I left in my junior year to join the Army).
Nowadays I wouldn’t dream of going, even if I still lived in California. The crowds are a bit wack, and StubHub charges $120 minimum per ticket for the section I sat in with my dad for mid-season, weeknight games.
To: BenLurkin
The Angels went 7-18 in September and finished 37 games behind the AL West champion Houston Astros.Maybe after Trout when down the team just quit on Ausmus.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:49:23 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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Oh, forgot...those seats at the time were $4.00 apiece, a fortune compared to the $1.50 in the Bob Ueker seats.
To: RetiredArmy
He is a former member of the Angels organization and they are slobbering to hire him.I didn't realize Madden had ties to the Angels.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:51:01 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: BenLurkin
Tyler Skaggs whose number was #45 died from from a drug overdose, is fishy.. What is a top an athlete doing using drugs ? The Angel management troubles must run deeper than Ausmus, they have team Dr's , so how could Skaggs be using drugs , and nobody knew, people don't just have a one time chance overdoses? .. either that or fowl play, not saying there is a conspiracy necessarily , but the lack of coverage on the investigation and the the redirect of #RIP45 on twitter to mean something else has been a sad state of affairs for the 2019 Angels.
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posted on
09/30/2019 3:51:38 PM PDT
by
seastay
To: Rummyfan
They quit before then. They looked like a completely different after the Skaggs incident.
And Trout, I think is...well..declining as a player. Too many times he’ll come to the plate and it’s like Mighty Casey. Though Ausmus may share some blame for that by trying to get the Angels into the winners circle with an emphasis on home run scoring rather than baseball fundamentals.
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posted on
09/30/2019 4:09:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
"He navigated this franchise through one of its most difficult seasons with class and professionalism." Professional letter. Good job Angels management. Interesting. Ausmus has the chance to manage this team for 25 years but lacked the talents: game tempo (his games were slow), line-ups (his lead off hitters were always different) and tv magnetism (boring dude who was always spitting and eating sunflower seeds). Joe Maddon? I hope not. Darin Earstad? He just quit the Univ. Nebraska baseball program after many years. Rick Vanderhook? I hope so. Good coach at Cal State Fullerton.
To: BenLurkin
The Angles can track down another manager but they wont track down the Houston Astros.
To: BenLurkin
Baseball managers are like politicians where they can totally f-up in their job and yet land another great gig somewhere else.
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posted on
09/30/2019 4:32:49 PM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Rummyfan
Yeah, he was a coach in the Angels organization at one time.
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posted on
09/30/2019 4:38:55 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(We are living in the Last Days. The Bible says so, and I believe it!! Know Him now!!)
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