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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Every manager of every team in every sport is going to do things that piss you off. Routinely.
If your favorite manager/coach/whatever took over the team you root for daily, you'd see a whole lot of warts you didn't see when you weren't watching them like a hawk.
I learned my lesson after Matheny took over for LaRussa and I realized what a true mouth-breather looked like. After years of focusing primarily on what LaRussa did poorly rather than what he did well, we ended up with a manager who ONLY did things poorly. And I can't help but think we kinda deserved that.
So with Shildt I have taken a more relaxed approach and really the one I should've taken with LaRussa more often than I did. I have to give him a fair, 1,000 mile view of his overall body of work. And with that in mind, occasional gaffes notwithstanding, it's hard not to conclude that he's done an outstanding job.
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Man if that ain't the truth. TLR drove me crazy at times....... sure miss that guy.