He would go on to a 97-65 record in 2006, come in second in manager-of-the-year voting, get a contract extension, and only get fired after wearing out our starting pitchers so much that we experienced one of the most epic late season collapses in baseball history in 2007, followed by a horrible 2008.
I take it … that that’s doing quite well? I don’t know what 97 − 65 means, so I’m not actually clear if this is a very manipulative person who is well loved but usually fails anyway, or if he’s actually successful.
Ah, that’s my fault for not realizing what is and isn’t clear to people. Made at least that sentence clearer (“excellent season” should be reasonably easy to understand?)
Edited your comment and accidentally broke the link in the process. Sorry. If you quickly post the link here, I will fix it, and am currently working on fixing Markdown links.
I take it … that that’s doing quite well? I don’t know what 97 − 65 means, so I’m not actually clear if this is a very manipulative person who is well loved but usually fails anyway, or if he’s actually successful.
Agreed. This post was hard to follow because I don’t know anything about baseball.
Ah, that’s my fault for not realizing what is and isn’t clear to people. Made at least that sentence clearer (“excellent season” should be reasonably easy to understand?)
The first part seems very good. His first season was the team’s best since 2001, and his second season was a league record.
I agree that the post would have been much clearer if this had been elaborated.
Edited your comment and accidentally broke the link in the process. Sorry. If you quickly post the link here, I will fix it, and am currently working on fixing Markdown links.
It was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WillieRandolph#Coaching andmanaging career
(It’s not pasting in well either, but you get the idea.)
Fixed.