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Astros bench manager and GM
Posted by Fired Fred on August 27, 2007 4:04 PM
The Astros aren't the worst team in baseball, not as long as Tampa Bay continues to have a franchise. Houston even has a winning record at home.
On the road, they fare about as well as stranded tourists dangling Benjamins in downtown LA after midnight, only without the usual pleasantness associated with a vicious beating and robbery. Stros owner Drayton McLane woke up this morning and decided enough was enough and canned GM Tim Purpura and manager Phil Garner...
McLane said he met with Purpura following the Astros' 5-4 win over the Pirates on Sunday and informed him of his decision. Monday morning, McLane called Garner and dismissed him.Those numbers of reasons could be 73, as in losses this year, or 252, Phil's losses over the past four plus years.
"[Purpura] was disappointed," McLane said. "He certainly wanted to continue, but I felt, for a number of reasons, we needed a new direction, a new configuration. To play with more enthusiasm and to be a champion."