06-17-2010, 04:53 PM
<!--quoteo(post=101980:date=Jun 17 2010, 03:27 PM:name=Kid)-->QUOTE (Kid @ Jun 17 2010, 03:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=101937:date=Jun 17 2010, 02:53 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Jun 17 2010, 02:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=101935:date=Jun 17 2010, 01:40 PM:name=Kid)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid @ Jun 17 2010, 01:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Brenly has a WS ring and doesn't appear to have gotten serious consideration for any managerial jobs since he was fired 6 years ago. I don't think that disqualifies him, but I think it says something.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It may not say anything more sinister than that he's priced himself out of the market because he's in a cushy job and already has a ring. For better or worse, he may have decided to be expensive.
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It's a cushy job, but one that can't pay him even 50% of what he'd make as a manager. Is it conceivable that it's something other than teams not being interested in him has kept him from getting a job? I guess it's possible for at least some open jobs. But since Brenly was fired from the Diamondbacks, the only teams to not have a managerial vacancy are the Braves, Red Sox, White Sox, Angels, Twins, & Cardinals. 80% (24/30) of teams have had an opening. I think it says something.
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You may be right, Kid. Cito Gaston has <i>two</i> rings, and after the Blue Jays fired him, he went unemployed for what, about a decade? I thought that was weird.
IIRC, Brenly was not given a lot of credit for steering a loaded D-Bax team to a ring. But he did seem perfectly competent, and nothing I've seen or heard from him in the booth over all these years has indicated that he's a raging a-hole, or clueless about strategy or anything obvious.
Personally, I think his opinions are spot-on, but maybe he's <i>too</i> opinionated.
It may not say anything more sinister than that he's priced himself out of the market because he's in a cushy job and already has a ring. For better or worse, he may have decided to be expensive.
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It's a cushy job, but one that can't pay him even 50% of what he'd make as a manager. Is it conceivable that it's something other than teams not being interested in him has kept him from getting a job? I guess it's possible for at least some open jobs. But since Brenly was fired from the Diamondbacks, the only teams to not have a managerial vacancy are the Braves, Red Sox, White Sox, Angels, Twins, & Cardinals. 80% (24/30) of teams have had an opening. I think it says something.
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You may be right, Kid. Cito Gaston has <i>two</i> rings, and after the Blue Jays fired him, he went unemployed for what, about a decade? I thought that was weird.
IIRC, Brenly was not given a lot of credit for steering a loaded D-Bax team to a ring. But he did seem perfectly competent, and nothing I've seen or heard from him in the booth over all these years has indicated that he's a raging a-hole, or clueless about strategy or anything obvious.
Personally, I think his opinions are spot-on, but maybe he's <i>too</i> opinionated.
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