Preparing for 2018

[Abomination]

I was surprised by the firing of Girardi who I thought was one of the best manager's in baseball - a team that makes the 7th game of the ALCS and did better than most would have predicted seems strange they'd fire him.

 

Which brings me to the inevitable - should the Jays take a long look here. I am pretty satisfied with Gibby at the helm but it would seem that Joe would be an upgrade. Surely there are a lot of Jays fans who hate Gibby as manager and it would be tough to argue against Joe's credentials (other than his flub against the Indians not calling for the camera replay).

 

Girardi probably isn't any better than Gibby, and may be worse. Gibby seems to be fine anyway. A manager really needs to just be good at being a people person (holding the respect of the media and the clubhouse), which Gibby is, and listen to the front office, which he seems to do.

[Spanky99]

Girardi probably isn't any better than Gibby, and may be worse. Gibby seems to be fine anyway. A manager really needs to just be good at being a people person (holding the respect of the media and the clubhouse), which Gibby is, and listen to the front office, which he seems to do.

Uhmm... Gibby's much better.

[G-Snarls]

I don't understand why Gibbons gets so much hate from casual fans. But like Key22 said it's there

 

Never will

Edited October 27, 2017 by G-Snarls

[Brownie19]

The funny thing is the casual fan should love Gibby. The man is a walking legend on the "good ole boys" meter and his "f***in beauty" level is off the charts. There's a reason he survived as manager through a front office change over. He's a really good fit for this team right now.

[bones10]

Sign Morrow.

[Terminator]

The funny thing is the casual fan should love Gibby. The man is a walking legend on the "good ole boys" meter and his "f***in beauty" level is off the charts. There's a reason he survived as manager through a front office change over. He's a really good fit for this team right now.

 

I wonder if it's just some sort of cultural thing. He's a big simple-talking Texan so maybe the people of TO just simply think he's stupid. Our casual fanbase is also one of the dumbest in all of MLB as well IMO.

[Bobthe4th]

Sign Morrow.

 

Too expensive

[GreekFatAss]

I wonder if it's just some sort of cultural thing. He's a big simple-talking Texan so maybe the people of TO just simply think he's stupid. Our casual fanbase is also one of the dumbest in all of MLB as well IMO.

 

I don't know if we are the dumbest but we certainly have the worst inferiority complex. Only fans where we care what others think about us and our team. Basically Canadian.

[StealingSigns]

Girardi is a downgrade. Not calling for that replay is indefensible, and reason itself not to hire him. I mean, I love that it happened! But if I'm a Yanks fan, I would have been seething. How can you fall asleep in the playoffs like that?