Fire Lou

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<!--quoteo(post=100561:date=Jun 9 2010, 08:49 AM:name=veryzer)-->QUOTE (veryzer @ Jun 9 2010, 08:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=100559:date=Jun 9 2010, 08:45 AM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Jun 9 2010, 08:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I want Piniella fired really, really badly. I think it's critical. I think he is a HUGE problem. I think he is, at this moment, a dreadful manager.

It's not just about his in-game management or his lineups. It's not just how he uses (for example) Theriot, it's that he has no capacity for any of the various management styles that might wrestle Theriot's neck from the grip of Theriot's sphincter.

Piniella can no longer do this job and he is no longer doing this job. He's just taking up space. There is no good reason to let him molder for four more months.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

But they will.
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Indeed they will.

Lou needed to crack some skulls weeks ago and try to shake things up, try anything he could, but that wasn't going to happen. He is operating like the worst kind of lame duck, which he is. His in-game management is actually the least of my worries right now. I think he has now become a bad influence on the team, and his general disposition is worrisome to say the least. The best he could come up with after all this time was growing a playoff beard. He needs to be gone yesterday. And Hendry needs to be next. If Ricketts doesn't assert himself soon, then I'm going to lose whatever respect I had for him, and I won't be the only fan who feels that way. The honeymoon period is now over for him.