Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Are the Yankees waiting for the series to end before announcing their manager... or is something else going on?

I can see why "Cooperstown" Cashman didn't wait to fire Joe Girardi: The sooner Joe officially became a free man, the more likely he'd land a job. But thus far, it's not as if Destiny has been ringing his cellphone. Over the last 48 hours, Washington and Philadelphia both filled managerial openings, leaving Joe in the limbo of the lost, also known as Greater White Plains. 

It's possible that Joe is mulling his future and not returning calls, taking some "me" time before the next gig. It's also possible that with the Mets, Redsocks, Nats and Phillies having filled their slots, the music has stopped for 2018, leaving Joe without a chair... aside from one next to Coney and Paul in the YES Network barker gallery. 

But what's going on with the Yankee opening? When Joe received the pink slip, everyone assumed that "Coop" already had a successor in mind. It's not like Cashman to fire someone and then organize a search committee to sift for replacements. This isn't the East Syracuse Zoning Board; it's the frickin' New York Baseball Yankees. They don't accept slush pile submissions. So why the delay?

For now, let's assume it's due to the ongoing World Series, and the unwritten rule that teams don't make big public splashes while the games are still going. (Remember the wails when A-Rod opted out of his Yankee contract during the 2007 World Series? How dare he undercut that epic, 4-game Boston-Colorado sweep!) This allows the evil Fox Sports hype machine to fully bulldoze American junk culture throughout the month of October - selling insurance scams and watery beer - without having some team wave around the reanimated corpse of Gene Mauch or Terry Bevington as its latest face of the future 

Still, what gives here? Boston, Washington and Phily have all filled openings during the post-season - the Mets and Redsocks moving while the Yankees were still playing - without a blip of protest. So why haven't the Yankees made their announcement? Surely, Cashman has already settled on his man, right? It's like Robert Mueller's indictment - filed last week, but not made public until yesterday, right? We're just waiting for Joe Buck to give the go-ahead, right? 

My guess is that if Houston wins tonight, we'll have a Yankee manager by Thursday morning drive time. If not, something has happened within the bowels of the Yankiverse. Somewhere, in the well laid plans of Cooperstown Cashman, reality will have tweaked a gonad. 

14 comments:

JM said...

Cashman is probably in secret negotiations with the new manager, but first they have to decide on what shape the negotiating table will be. Round? Maybe. A little too democratic, maybe. Rectangular? Square? These things are important. The hire needs to feel as if he's being respected as an equal, and Cashman needs to know that the hire is no way an equal, but has to fool him into thinking so. The stat dept. is probably involved. Which table shape leads to a successful contract? And where does Hal sit? Is a high chair OK, or do they just put telephone books on a chair for him?

People think these things just happen, but it's not that simple.

KD said...

That would be the tNWAR metric that you need to look at, John. (negotiation wins above replacement due to table morphology). The whole league is paying attention to tNWAR these days, unless they are using tNWAR+, which includes the impact of specific chair types and table x chair interactions.

Anonymous said...

HAHA....GREAT STUFF KD.

Anonymous said...

KD and John M. are the same person. Two different people could not betray such uniform mediocrities of style and thought, such predictable middle-class groupthink antipathies and enthusiasms, such an indistinguishably deadening lack of real wit, such an identically petty hostility to anything resembling unorthodox intelligence about anything.

KD said...

Don't blame us because you haven't kept up with the modern game, Sassy. Just hunker down and get with the program. Life, and baseball, is passing you by.

Or just have your Mommy bring you down some hot pockets (just pause the internet porn for a moment. have some respect.)

Anonymous said...

QED

Anonymous said...

"Life, and baseball, is passing you by." I guess they is. And grammar and wit and intelligence is passing you by. Or already has passed you by.

KD said...

Happy Halloween, Sassy. I love you too,

Anonymous said...

Thanks, moron. Maybe someone will be nice enough to drop an elementary grammar book into your trick-or-treat bag.

KD said...

Maybe so my friend. Maybe so...

Rufus T. Firefly said...

So Sassy!

...to the one who drops the first 's'.

Don't you want to go to the jock sniffing sites that are disgusting (sic) the Janeane Garofalo trade?

More suited to you pedo anon.

HoraceClarke66 said...

If the Yanks hire Buck, will Sassy suddenly love us all? If so, another clue.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

'Buck' is a great entry for the name game song. Buck Henry did a skit on it back when Saturday Night Live was still funny.

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