This is about right. I can certainly understand firing Randolph last month; the team (after a historic choke) has underachieved on balance this year, although this is at least as much on the GM (I'm not sure what a manager can do when presented with...
gross ineptitude
In 2001, this man was pressured to resign from the new leadership position h'e been appointed to five months sooner. You see, he'd been accused of sexual harrassment by one.
Bill Bavasi mercifully fired. It makes sense; charitably assuming that the Mariners may try to find a major league manager at some point this season, you want a new GM.
It's hard to get much worse than getting swept at home by an Angels team without Guerrero (and not pitching Lackey). But I'm sure McLaren and company can find a way! In other news, this has been building since several commenters argued last year that...
The popularity of American Idol (which, according to today's Times recap, took a major uptick in subtlety and musicality when one of the third-raters essayed a Collective Soul cover.) The.
I remember in the 2004 Playoffs there was a trend of reversing them calls and getting them right. I liked that much more than overruling clear home runs based on.
Tim Marchman says that the Subway Series this year "is no battle for honor between two hardened champions, but a pair of bums fighting over a ham sandwich in an alley." There are, however, considerably more pathetic rivalry series. Such as the Mariners/Padres, which is...