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He took the field alone then was removed to a standing ovation from the fans and teammates. According to twitter.

They never f***ing did. Did you notice the source? Garfein already corrected Cowley's false report. Ozzie's the one who told Cora he'd be the interim manager, he was assuming and he assumed wrong.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 08:09 PM) Wasn't Quade Pinellas bench coach? Stop correcting me. I meant Sandberg, when you're that quick it doesn't give me any time to correct myself which I do often.

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 07:58 PM) What about Martinez makes everybody want him? How do we know he's a sabermetrics guy? I feel like everybody wants to ride this idea, how do we even know much about him as a head manager? Someone really needs to writeup a good answer to this question so we can put it at the top of the forum. The easiest answer is that he's worked along side the best manager in baseball for 4 years now, he's Maddon's righthand man and stats guy and Maddon vouches for him. That's really good enough for me. Stone actually put it pretty well this morning, paraphrasing: "you can't get those shots of Joe Maddon in the Rays dugout without seeing Dave Martinez over his shoulder." as for this: Well, we don't. You could ask that same question of any candidate, we just have to go off what we know and from what I personally know of Dave Martinez, I'd love it if the Sox gave him a shot. He could absolutely fail, there's really no way of knowing but when looking for your next manager a great way to go about it is hiring off coaching trees, it's how the Rays landed Maddon: hiring off the Scioscia tree, now Maddon's gotten to the point where he has his own tree in play. The good thing about Martinez compared to someone like Sandberg is at least he's gained experience on a Major League bench along side a great manager.

More good, definitive news: Chris Rongey Kenny says that Buddy Bell is not in the mix for the manager position. The case for Alomar is looking stronger #whitesox 5 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 05:21 PM) What I'd say is that you need to think about Fisk's meaning to the Sox. This was a moribund franchise that literally he helped revitalize. They meant more because they had Fisk. Same reason I'd give Ozzie a statue...he did what no other manager could do for that org and finished the job. And that's why organizations retire numbers and the Sox put their faces on the left-centerfield wall.

I think I read this one correctly: Chris Rongey Kenny also says he offered to vacate GM position for different job with #whitesox but that idea wasn't received well by ownership 1 minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® That seems like the Williams - President, Hahn - GM scenario. I guess it wasn't in the cards afterall.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 05:04 PM) Are you reading the "Not" in Rongey's tweet? If it was Alomar, that'd be done quick, other candidates would be reasons to wait. Ha, I'm an idiot.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 04:47 PM) I hope not. Retired numbers are one thing. Statues should be for legends. And I hate the fact that Fisk has one. We should have 2 statues right now: Frank and Comiskey. Harold having a statue is a joke and Fisk is just silly, handing them out to very good/borderline great players that won't be getting into the hall just waters down the honor that comes with being immortalized in statue form.

@ChuckGarfien Chuck Garfien Clearing up published report, Joey Cora thought he was interim manager because Ozzie told him so. Ozzie just assumed. 22 seconds ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry There, now people jumping to ridiculous conclusions can just drop it.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 03:06 PM) Directly from his mouth. Oh and in the locker room he told the players the same thing. Said he could have stayed but he needs to do the best for his family and go where there is more money. As for baiting you into a fight, I dont fight on the internet, I'm just concerned about your mental well being. Seriously walk away from the keyboard. It does seem pretty simple: I believe he got $16M from the Marlins, he was making what? $2M a year here with a year left on his deal and absolutely no guarantees going forward (how could there be?). He says it's all about money and doing what's best for his family and he has a $16M offer from the Marlins on the table with that door slamming shut if he doesn't accept it now, why wouldn't he bolt for Florida? How can a manager be considered fired if he has a year left on his deal that he will not be compensated for and announces on his blog an hour after his farewell press conference that he's accepted an equivalent job elsewhere?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 02:36 PM) Did the team actually name him anything officially? It's been reported that he was simply told not to show up today. Exactly. KW said nothing of the sort last night and Cora's name wasn't even mentioned in the official press release or Merkin's story that was published around 12:30 last night. Seems like local reporters were just throwing Cora's name out there on Twitter since he was the bench coach, the White Sox never publicly named Cora anything. It only makes sense that Coop would be the man from the start, he's a KW guy and they're trying to make him as happy as possible to keep his ass around into the next regime, Cora was always going to follow Ozzie, why would KW hand the reins over to him for the final 2 games?

If we here want Martinez then we better start cheering for the Red Sox, any extra time between now and his interview only lessens his chances.

@SI_JonHeyman Jon Heyman excellent white sox pitching coach don cooper is staying with team. its a win-win nite for #chisox 6 minutes ago via web Very good night.

I love KW's hostile demeaner.

He dropped 3 F-bombs.

Cowley looks frightened and confused.

"Hell no! They got me fired!" that was pretty good.

F Bomb Counter: 3

F BOMBS!

He seems angry.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Sep 26, 2011 -> 10:12 PM) Maybe Morrison is back in the picture? No, he's not.

This should be good.

Things are going to be very different next year.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 26, 2011 -> 10:02 PM) Nice, where did you hear that wording? It's all over twitter. Beat guys, Rongey, national writers.