I think the "I'm not going to attend any more games or buy any more merchandise" threat is a little tired by now.

You should send this to the papers, without that threat.  And even though the plug for lookout landing is a nice gesture, it will look like shameless advertising to a newspaper editor.  But the paper is going to be read by far more folks than anything you send directly to the club, and like it or not, popular opinion is a big determining factor in whether managers get fired or not.

When you're looking at probabilities in baseball, there's a lot of wiggle room for intangible things like momentum and morale. That's why the WPA almost never hits 100%, and even then that should be considered a fluke. In a one run or two run game, I would say there are a lot more players going to say let's do this, instead of looking up at the score being 8-2 in the 7th and saying fuck it, especially when you look at the younger players.

Yea, we don't score many runs as it is, but having that kind of shit thrown in your face probably isn't going to make you want to try any harder. I can see us getting a couple runs on Tex's shitty bullpen.... but not if everyone gives up on the game.

For the record, I blame Hargrove for that as well. if you go out in the 7th, and don't see any good pitcher come out in the pen for the bottom half, you have to think to yourself, well fuck what the hell am I doing here when he's going to blow it anyways.

I'd like some backup on this, but my gut feeling is a lot more runs have been scored by the losing team in the later innings of closer games as opposed to blowouts. It just makes sense, because it's more mentally competitive as the score is closer.

Grover needs to be fired.  Aside from his poor decision making (sending the same guy out there time after time and expecting different results is nuts), he has disenfranchised Ichiro.  Ichiro's numbers suck the last three weeks.  It is apparent he won't play for the idiot.  They have had an ongoing, low level fued for some time.  You fire the manager for blowing the season, making poor personel decisions and for pissing off the face of the franchise.  You fire him so you can resign Ichiro during the off season and not have him go at the end of his contract, or have to trade him at the deadline because you cannot sign him and you have to get something for him....God forbid we are in a pennant race and have to face that decision.  You fire him because after all his stupidity...it will feel good.  

Let Rohn manage out the season.  See how the players respond to him and how he does.  Then either make it permanent or go get someone else in the off season.

Fire the moron now!