February 20, 200323 yr Wow 13 career innings and 9 earned runs........how did he get hired???? http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb...cator=contreras
February 20, 200323 yr Wow 13 career innings and 9 earned runs........how did he get hired???? http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb...cator=contreras most coaches and managers sucked as players..what made nardi qualified was he was best friends with jerry manuel...thats a good reason huh??
February 20, 200323 yr most coaches and managers sucked as players..what made nardi qualified was he was best friends with jerry manuel...thats a good reason huh?? Nardi is the only example I can think of where I wish JM would have listened to Lou Pinella. Pinella didn't call Nardi the "worst pitching coach in baseball" for no reason. :fyou NARDI
February 20, 200323 yr Re: Marti. I will reiterate what Cubkilla said. I was in Seattle when Lou P. fired Marti. Then a year or two later he resurfaces with our Sox? I couldn't believe it. Lightning struck twice. He messed up the Seattle staff big time, which apparently qualified him to do the same for us. There are some things about baseball I will never understand, and our hiring Marti was one of them.
February 20, 200323 yr If he was hired solely because he is a life long buddy of JM and not because of his qualifications, then Jerry should be taken to task and have his ass chewed out publicly.
February 20, 200323 yr If he was hired solely because he is a life long buddy of JM and not because of his qualifications, then Jerry should be taken to task and have his ass chewed out publicly. ya think that will happen when kimm falls on his face too???? hes another jm buddy..........
February 20, 200323 yr If he was hired solely because he is a life long buddy of JM and not because of his qualifications, then Jerry should be taken to task and have his ass chewed out publicly. ya think that will happen when kimm falls on his face too???? hes another jm buddy.......... JMHO..... but I think Kimm is an upgrade from "Waving" Wallace Johnson.
February 20, 200323 yr Friends don't let friends coach and make asses of themselves. Unless you're Jerry Manuel and your friend is Nardi or Waving Wally! As for crappy players being good coaches....I can only think of a few good coaches that were also good players....Joe Torre(though his job is actually quite easy)....Lou P, Dusty Baker, Mike Scoscia, Bob Brenly....maybe a few others as well....there were also some decent players that turned out to be s***ty coaches....like Don Baylor for example.
February 20, 200323 yr Is Nari coaching anywhere? Or, has he been blacklisted from the majors? He's in our minor league system
February 20, 200323 yr Yeah you guys can say that again. I never liked Nardi or wavin' wally. I mean who waves in Frank Thomas rounding second when the ball's already in the infield?? ugh... poor guys. I think it also shows how much better the Sox are than the Cubs by their manager last year being our 3rd base coach
February 20, 200323 yr Friends don't let friends coach and make asses of themselves. Unless you're Jerry Manuel and your friend is Nardi or Waving Wally! As for crappy players being good coaches....I can only think of a few good coaches that were also good players....Joe Torre(though his job is actually quite easy)....Lou P, Dusty Baker, Mike Scoscia, Bob Brenly....maybe a few others as well....there were also some decent players that turned out to be s***ty coaches....like Don Baylor for example. I agree with the quote by SoxFavForever on this one. Friends don't let friends do that. But WiteSoxFan... what's wrong with Wavin' Wallie. I loved Wavin' Wallie, he was great. He was good at what he did... waving people home !!
February 20, 200323 yr Is Nari coaching anywhere? Or, has he been blacklisted from the majors? He's in our minor league system so now our minors are screwed
February 20, 200323 yr Friends don't let friends coach and make asses of themselves. Unless you're Jerry Manuel and your friend is Nardi or Waving Wally! As for crappy players being good coaches....I can only think of a few good coaches that were also good players....Joe Torre(though his job is actually quite easy)....Lou P, Dusty Baker, Mike Scoscia, Bob Brenly....maybe a few others as well....there were also some decent players that turned out to be s***ty coaches....like Don Baylor for example. I agree with the quote by SoxFavForever on this one. Friends don't let friends do that. But WiteSoxFan... what's wrong with Wavin' Wallie. I loved Wavin' Wallie, he was great. He was good at what he did... waving people home !! maybe too good...his arm was a auto-waving machine, im surprised it didnt screwed off...yet
February 21, 200323 yr If he was hired solely because he is a life long buddy of JM and not because of his qualifications, then Jerry should be taken to task and have his ass chewed out publicly. I think thats why KW had to finally force him out of town. Jerry didn't ever want to fire him since they were such great buddies. I wonder if KW wanted him out of there way before that. I kind of think he did, but didn't have enough pull at the time since Manuel was coming off a manager of the year award.
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