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A tale of three bosses
Posted by Fired Fred on October 9, 2007 4:06 PM
One's been run out, one may be run out, and one has done a runner.
Sprint ran out its CEO, one Gary Forsee, after they cratered their second quarter profits. I betcha he did foresee this coming, because his parachute out of Sprint totaled about $55.5 million.
Sprint shareholders, feel free to be inventive with your invective in the comments.
Another boss may be run out by Boss Steinbrenner. Yankees manager Joe Torre, who to my knowledge hasn't played an inning or swung a bat since 1977, is being blamed because the richest payroll in baseball crashed and burned against the Cleveland Indians.
I think GM Brian Cashman ought to be sleeping a little more restlessly. He's the one that assembled a high-price roster, but no one's suggesting feeding him to the fans in the upper deck. Should be fun when Torre gets Willie Randolph's job with the Mets next year. (I made that up. But c'mon, everyone's thinking it.)
As far as bosses taking flight, that would be my cheery boss Lucas, who's becoming a Yahoo. Now Sachin has to put up with me in his email box. Sachin, this is not my fault, don't believe a word Lucas says, I have no idea who left those eels in his desk.