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Guess the Manager

Eh, why not? Assemble your pleas, odds laying, shenagins, poll gaming, et cetera here. No posting at DailyKos asking for support for your choice!

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The Next Manager of the Mariners will be...?
Joey Cora
56 votes
Chip Hale
11 votes
DeMarlo Hale
11 votes
Brad Mills
26 votes
Jose Oquendo
11 votes
Randy Ready
23 votes
Don Wakamatsu
162 votes
Field
11 votes

311 votes | Poll has closed

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Want Mills, think it'll be Wacko...

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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 11:25 AM PST   0 recs

.

I see what you did there…

Unless we get buffed Joey…

(and if those links don’t work for you, blame MLB for using Silverlight…)

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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 12:12 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

I take it those are the creators of the advertisements?

I am sure they will think of something for Ichiro, Felix and… I don’t know who else they will try to highlight since anyone else could be traded. Maybe something with Morrow?

How do you hype up the 2009 team from an ad prospective?
“2009! It can’t be worst than last year!”

by mark sobba on Nov 17, 2008 7:21 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Yeah, I tried to get an internship there a couple of summers ago, but to no avail.

Website here.

I’m thinking that they’ll have to do an Ichiro and a Felix. They’ll probably discuss doing one of Yuni, Lopez, or Beltre. They’ll have at least one ensemble piece where there are like 18 players, and there will be one that highlights the team’s new additions (possibly including GMZ and the manager). They usually do about six, so that leaves us with one more.

by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 17, 2008 7:26 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Hyphen FTW!!!

Maybe Hyphen giving a lecture about how he baffles hitters especially because his curveball, being from Oz and all, spins the opposite direction from the normal U.S. curveball.

And in the typical not-long-for-the-team commercial, how about Washburn pulling Kenji out from under a bus…

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by PositivePaul on Nov 17, 2008 7:41 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

I'll bet we could get Bobby Petrino

At least until he finds a new job sometime around the all-star game.

by sooper jeenyus on Nov 17, 2008 1:20 PM PST   0 recs

I haven't enjoyed what I've read about Wakamatsu

Therefore, I assume he will be our next manager.

Prove me wrong, Z. Prove me wrong.

by katal on Nov 17, 2008 9:06 PM PST   0 recs

What have you heard?

I can’t remember all that much on him. He seemed to be rather indistinct.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/

by JY on Nov 17, 2008 9:43 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

All I remember is his disappointment on not getting Texas

and that he’s fairly confident about this one. (I can’t remember much on him either)

Oquendo actually seems kinda interesting surprisingly…

Cora of course would be the “fan popularity” choice…

Randy Ready is a funny name

by Smith18 on Nov 17, 2008 9:47 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

A couple of his quotes

"From the outside looking in, this is a club that a lot of smart people around the world predicted would win 90-something games,’’

The M’s “can win in a hurry.”

If he really thought last year’s team was capable of 90 wins, I’m not impressed.

by katal on Nov 18, 2008 6:13 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

By "win in a hurry"

I hope he means in under 2.5 hours.

by Sec 108 on Nov 18, 2008 6:25 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

If he really means 90 wins, I raise an eyebrow.

However, I also think that the ‘08 team, on paper, was not all that different from the ’07 team, which overachieved quite a bit. Certainly, they were not the second-worst team in the MLB. Quite a lot went wrong last season, and it wasn’t merely the result of the risky ventures of our offseason.

I would’ve pegged this team for somewhere in the mid-to-high seventies in wins, low eighties if I’m feeling generous.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/

by JY on Nov 18, 2008 7:16 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

On the other hand, I do like this.

Someone on Mariners Central found a link to an article discussing Wakamatusu’s role as bench coach for Showalter.

Putting together the scouting meeting and determining what is the most pertinent information is Wakamatsu’s domain. He is the staff organizer. Before the first game of each series, he’ll arrive at the stadium a good seven hours before first pitch to start putting the game plan on a board in the clubhouse. He’s already done it once, putting it to paper and in a notebook he’ll carry with him to the dugout.

The game plan will include everything from which outfielders the Rangers can run on to which opponent is most likely to bunt. It will include which opposing pitchers have good moves to first base and which ones the Rangers can be more confident running against.

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/

by JY on Nov 18, 2008 10:53 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

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