What’s ironic is that a baseball manager is less relevant today than ever before. Today, the manager is just a guy who does what the GM’s computer programs tell him to do.
Yeah. Joe will probably get the millions he will demand from them. Most other teams now pay small salaries to the so-called managers, one gets like $775,000 to manage players making $25 million. They can do as they please because they can send him packing for little or nothing on those small salaries. The days of the Yankees paying a manager $10 million like they did Joe Giraiti (spelling). They ain’t paying no one that much money any longer. Now it is paying these yes men the small bucks to have one of the 30 MLB jobs. All the decisions are made up stairs, lineups, etc. They have ruined baseball this year with these tightly ripped up baseballs that go 600 feet. Everyone is ranting about the Mets’ guy who hit 53 HRs this year. He struck out nearly 200 times. Hit barely .255 or so. I want to see his numbers next year. Most of those guys don’t repeat those numbers the next year. But, I am sick of 15-11 baseball games. I like well pitched 3-2, 4-3 games. I am sick of watching homeruns fly out of the park at huge record numbers. Yankees and Twins hit over 300 team HRs this year, that is stupid. Yankees had 12-15, somewhere in there, guys hit 10 or more homeruns this year. Crazy. I am tired of it. Sit down. Team throws up 6 runs in the first inning with 4 HRs. Home team gets 7 runs on 5 HRs. Sick. I have not watched a complete game all year. I have totally lost interest in baseball. Boring now.