Not related to the postseason games being played, but Albert Pujols is expected to be interviewed for the Angels’ manager job.
That’s amazing to me. It seems like he was just playing, but looking it up, it has been a couple of years. He’s 45, which is young but not extremely young. That seems like it could be a neat situation.
Dan Wilson was a catcher for the Mariners and is their manager now, and doing a decent job since they won the division the first year he was manager all year. Having a former player of a team become the manager seems to be extra special, at least for the fans. I hope Pujols gets the job and does well because that would be neat to see.
(But not too well, as they are in the same division as the Mariners.)
Another successful manager departs; Braves skipper Brian Snitker, who had managed them to seven straight playoff berths, and a World Series title four years ago, is stepping away from the role.
Today’s press conference indicates it was Snitker’s decision to step down. Much like Bruce Bochy, he’s not young (69), and he wasn’t sure he wanted to continue managing. The Braves indicate that he’ll be staying with the team in an advisory role. He has been with the Braves organization for the past 49 years, first as a minor-league player, then as a coach and manager.
There’s speculation that Ron Washington might take the job in Atlanta.
Believeland!
Hopefully all Cleveland’s youngsters got their yayas out today and will be primed and ready to go tomorrow.
I also hope they move the game out of the afternoon slot and give us a nice shady nighttime game.
If a game is involving the Yankees, Red Sox, and/or Dodgers, it will nearly always be given the more prestigious/more eyeballs slot (in this case, the evening slots). It’s been that way since I was a kid.
Only if a couple of other series end today.
And ninja’d by @kenobi_65
Yes thank you, I understand that. It has also been that way since I was a kid. However there is a chance there will be some open spots tomorrow evening. Our game time is literally right now “TBD”.
Fucking hell dudes. I know.
Fucking Manny Machado.
Love him!
For the postseason, anyway.
I was at the Cleveland-Detroit game. Place got hugely loud after those 2 late home runs. Gorgeous sunny and cool day wind brisk in from CF; I moved from my seats in the LF line to the sunny RF roof.
Nice! I’ve been to that field only once, back in June 2012. It’s a nice stadium and one thing I remember is that when WWII broke out, Bob Feller was the very first from MLB to join the military. (It turns out he was the first from any professional sports league to join) He enlisted in the Navy only 2 days after hearing of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He became a Chief Petty Officer and he served from 1941 to 1945.
I didn’t have to learn about it there at the stadium, but I did. It was called Progressive Field in 2012, and it still is today. Quite refreshing when compared to San Francisco’s Pacific Bell Park changed to SBC Park (SBC Global) then to AT&T Park and finally to Oracle Park. For now.
Progressive Field, a nice ballpark.
Totally agree. I was also there just once, for the last regular-season game a few years ago. Last regular-season game for the team called the Indians. Except they had to play a make-up game the next day because it had playoff implications. So I thought I was going to see history, but alas.
But I really liked the ballpark.
Ron’s 73, looks 93, and coming off heart surgery, the guy might wanna take it easy.
And we have at least 2 Game 3s tomorrow.
Yes! Padres win!!
Yeah, I understand that Ron loves coaching - but there’s gotta be a better role for him somewhere that keeps him out of the every day grind.
Amusingly, those first three names all reflect essentially the same name sponsor, going through mergers and rebranding.