Perlozzo and the Orioles have been horrible this season. Not just with the current 8 game losing streak to the Rockies,Nationals, and Diamondbacks all at Camden Yards. My roommate loves the Orioles so, naturally, I have to watch them and they are just poorly managed. They could be a decent team with good management I believe. Still pretty bad though. No starting pitching, a few guys who can hit, and a horrible bullpen. Not all Perlozzo's fault.
<phone rings @ an office in the Bronx> George Steinbrenner: Hello? Peter Angelos: Hey George, how are you today? George: Good, you? Peter: Great! Listen, I'm firing Perlozzo. George: Oh, that's too bad. I saw you guys hit a rough patch. Peter: Yeah...Anyway, listen George, I was wondering if I could talk to Joe Girardi about our vacant pos- <click> Peter: George? Hello?
Why would they need to ask the Yankees' permission? He's not under contract with the Yankees. TV is a different entity. At least that's what I thought.
I would assume that since YES is owned by George, Girardi's tv contract is directly tied to the ballclub. Besides, the last thing the Orioles want to do is make a division rival mad. Especially when that rival is the Yankees or Sox.
The Yanks, If im Joe I cant take this job b/c there is a chance he is the Yanks manager next year. :wink:
If he signed a YES TV contract that prevented him from taking a baseball managing job, he's out of his mind. Having said that, if he thought he had a decent shot at the Yankees job next year he'd obviously say no to Baltimore, but I thought Mattingly has the inside track on that?
My gut feeling all along has been that Girardi signed the YES contract with the "wink-wink" clause. Basically, we're bringing back Torre for the last year of his contract. Come and talk for a year, then the job is yours. I think Mattingly is high on Torre's list of succesors. I don't think that holds true up top. But who knows? If I were Joe Girardi, and I were given any sort of opportunity to even consider the Yankees job somewhere within the next half decade, I'd talk in the booth as long as they wanted. There's very teams in MLB that are worth waiting for. The Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox. I can't think of one other team, off the top of my head, that someone would be crazy to not wait for, if they knew they were on the short list for next in line. But those three teams, with their revenue, and thier willingness to spend cash, you'd be a fool not to wait it out.
I'd add the two LA teams as teams you probably wait for, or at least ones you take rather than waiting for one of the top 3, they have big checkbooks and as a transplat I have to say LA is a spectacular place to live
Fair enough point. (I was trying to think of California teams when I was writing what I did, and came up blank. Yes, LAA would be a great job to take. The Dodgers I'd think before leaping, but yeah, they'd definitely fit as the #5 choice.)
The O's have called a news conference at 11 am to make a major announcement... please don't let it be Girardi
From what I saw on ESPN, this announcement is for MacPhail to become GM, not Girardi the manager. (Not that Girardi WON'T be the manager, but that doesn't seem to be what the announcement today is supposed to be.) This is just one more reason to despise Torre/Cashman.
Good for Joe. We saw what taking the O's job did to Maz. It set him back a few years. There are plenty of other good jobs. Joe is getting paid by YES and the Marlins still, so he shouldn't just take any ol' job at this point.
