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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
He was just saying the day before that everything was fine. Stay the course. Let things work itself out.
I'm sure he got some major blowback from the fans so he comes out with this new BS spiel. Not buying this. Just political spin to pacify a pissed off fan base.
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It's okay guys - they earned a
split. So all is well now.
God damn Cardinals can't even do a losing streak right. Get swept this weekend and there'd have been meaningful change. But no, they won a couple of games that did very little to demonstrate that the team is meaningfully better than the squad that has meandered through the first half of the season and everyone gets to keep their job for another month or so.
Look at the Reds when they got rid of one of the only managers in baseball who was worse than Matheny. Brian Price was staggeringly terrible and a brief glimpse at the Reds roster vs. their record supported it. Jim Rigglemen is as average as Price was awful. He's a 'replacement level' big league manager; someone who neither adds nor subtracts anything from the true talent level on the squad.
And the Reds, while still not
good, are at least fighting through games now and have gone 29-30 with Rigglemen in charge after starting 3-15. The difference is obvious.
I just don't see how you can watch this squad day in, day out and not think that Matheny is due for exactly the same kind of treatment with Oquendo getting his shot.