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Originally Posted by dlphg9
Oh I'm sure. I can imagine his press conference too. "I really learned a lot from my time with the Royals and I've had a lot of time to reflect on the things I did wrong. I'm a changed man and won't have the clubhouse so uptight that players hate being here and I learned a lot about ruining good pitchers careers, so I'll try to not do that."
I still remember after he was hired here and some of the local radio guys were pretty skeptical and then he had his press conference and they were talking like he's a changed man and all this other shit. It's pretty easy to have people write a speech where you don't sound like a blubbering idiot.
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His "chase every win" approach also looked a lot more sustainable than it was since his first year was a 60 game season.
By Year 2, relievers hit the wall by July, and when Jeff Flanagan, perhaps GMDM's most reliable media mouthpiece, was even leaking concerns from the locker room, the writing was on the wall