Macha fired!
It finally happened! Ken Macha has been fired!
ESPN.com - MLB - After quick ALCS exit, A's fire manager Macha: "Two days after getting swept out of the ALCS by Detroit, the Oakland A's fired manager Ken Macha, the team announced Monday."
The folks over at the Fire Macha blog must be spraying champagne in their clubhouse...
Ken Macha is a Moron & I Hate Him: "We hate you and we want you gone. You took Ron Washington's job last year after you were axed and then bitched and moaned and sucked Uncle Lew's nuts until they brought you back. The fucking PIRATES didn't even want you, you asshole. What did you do then? Definitely not get out of baseball, as you should have. No, you decide to crawl back here and fuck up another postseason for us."
Unlike most folks, I didn't hate Ken Macha. I always thought that Billy Beane was running the show behind the scenes. Macha is just around to be the HR Director, to deal with bring guys up or sending them down (as per BB's orders), and keep benched players from getting disgruntled.
Sounds like Macha wasn't a personnel person. Who wants a manager -- even an office manager -- who ignores some employees and speaks disparagingly of others?
On the other hand, is Macha simply the goat to sacrifice on the altar of the A's post-season failure? He's not the first losing manager to get fired.
Happy trails, Macha. This time, there's no asking for your job back.
ESPN.com - MLB - After quick ALCS exit, A's fire manager Macha: "Two days after getting swept out of the ALCS by Detroit, the Oakland A's fired manager Ken Macha, the team announced Monday."
The folks over at the Fire Macha blog must be spraying champagne in their clubhouse...
Ken Macha is a Moron & I Hate Him: "We hate you and we want you gone. You took Ron Washington's job last year after you were axed and then bitched and moaned and sucked Uncle Lew's nuts until they brought you back. The fucking PIRATES didn't even want you, you asshole. What did you do then? Definitely not get out of baseball, as you should have. No, you decide to crawl back here and fuck up another postseason for us."
Unlike most folks, I didn't hate Ken Macha. I always thought that Billy Beane was running the show behind the scenes. Macha is just around to be the HR Director, to deal with bring guys up or sending them down (as per BB's orders), and keep benched players from getting disgruntled.
Sounds like Macha wasn't a personnel person. Who wants a manager -- even an office manager -- who ignores some employees and speaks disparagingly of others?
On the other hand, is Macha simply the goat to sacrifice on the altar of the A's post-season failure? He's not the first losing manager to get fired.
Happy trails, Macha. This time, there's no asking for your job back.
posted by blank book at 1:37 PM
3 Comments:
Duchscherer had a sore (stiff) neck, which prevented him from following through properly on his pitches. Cause uncertain. MRI showed no damage.
His presence might have saved Macha's job. There's no question but what Street was out of gas.
It was 1984 (Cubs and Sutcliffe) and 2003 (Red Sox and Martinez) deja vue all over again. Your best pitcher running on fumes and the manager refusing to recognize reality.
I was screaming at Macha (from 1500 miles away) to yank Street for anybody, even Melhuse, one batter before Ordonez.
ISTM that Macha was neither a superb manager nor a bad manager. He almost never cost his team a game (this last one being a really, really big exception), but there also weren't very many times when you could point to his cotribution as being a key factor in winning a game.
It's a very hard world when your lose your double play combination and then get fired for not succeeding in the post season. If the A's had won the LCS, I wonder if he would have been retained.
you don't think keeping Kielty, the best RH hitter in the outfield against lefties (meaning oh, Verlander, Rogers and Robertson) on the bench during these games caused a lack of offense? Isnt' that why we lost? We didn't score as many runs? I also think Kielty might not have looked as stupid as Payton on that sliciing fly ball in the fourth game (which caused the beginning of the end of that game.)
macha did not manage the bullpen well, he overused Street, underused duke, misused Calero. The plus was we found out that Kennedy was worth the $ and Sour-beck and Witasuck weren't. He always pulled starting pitchers at least one inning too late in a number of starts. I don't think a "player friendly" guy will help, as someone has to make the tough calls for the players, but he did look like a zombie out there.
Let the winter what-if's begin...?
The Big Hurt was 0-for-13 in the ALCS. It wouldn't have hurt any more if Kielty was brought in to bat, I suppose.
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