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Pirates scuttle their skipper
Posted by Fired Fred on October 8, 2007 1:48 PM
Another baseball season down the tubes in Pittsburgh, and another manager sent away for not being able to perform cold fusion, cure cancer, and get the Pirates over .500.
If you stop the video of GM Neal Huntington chucking Jim Tracy at the see-ya press conference at 1:00 on the timer, you get a frame of him that looks like his soul just left his body. Creepy...
Tracy, 51, went 135-189, including 68-94 in the season that ended Sunday, since former general manager Dave Littlefield hired him Oct. 11, 2005. Littlefield was fired earlier in the month, and the decision regarding the manager was left up to his replacement, Neal Huntington. Team president Frank Coonelly also was heavily involved in the process.Little advice, if your record stinks like yesterday's diapers, chances are the new GM will want to bring in someone a little less stinky to be the manager. They also kicked out three front office guys, and told the old coaches they were free to go look for other jobs.
Joe Torre might be available for a job interview after the Yankees get knocked out by the Indians, since Boss Steinbrenner pretty much said his ass is out if they lose. He could be a hero in Pittsburgh. They don't expect 110 wins and a World Series every year like the psycho Yankees fans do.
Image courtesy of Chris Carlson/AP