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Showalter bucked from the Rangers
Posted on October 4, 2006 2:34 PM
I was wondering when the American League would get around to dumping some of its managers. Fortunately the woeful Texas Rangers broke a string of four National League firings with one of their own, by showing Buck Showalter the door after four years without going to the post-season to accept a beating from the New York Yankees...
"You never heard me make an excuse all year, and I'm not going to start now. We just didn't get it done," Showalter told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "They want to go in a new direction with a new voice. With the shelf life of managers, I feel fortunate."The Senior Circuit has dismissed Dusty Baker, Felipe Alou, Frank Robinson, and Joe Girardi, who barely had time to clean out his office before the Marlins named his replacement.
It's a hired to be fired job, but the paychecks have 6 or 7 figures before the decimal point, so even a guy who's too stupid to pull his tired star pitcher for a reliever in a playoff game probably has enough banked away to keep the Budget Gourmet out of his freezer until the next job comes along.
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