SU was unhappy with the booing of Girardi tonight by Yankee fans in the pre-game introductions. He had a bad game – get over it. They booed Severino in the Wild Card game when he was taken out in the 1st inning. Really? Who was their top starter by far all season?
As a fan, you paid for your ticket and you can let everyone know how you feel. That’s fine. But Girardi has been a good manager for a lot of years here and this year’s team was not supposed to be in the post-season. He has had to sit veterans like Headley and Holliday in the playoff games. Is he the first manager to take out a starter too soon?
Lots of clamoring on Twitter for Don Mattingly to be the next manager. He is probably the most 2nd guessed manager in all of baseball right now. Great hitter, great Yankee, not the right choice for manager. SU would bring Girardi back and I expect Cashman to do so. He’s the right man for the job.
And the hysterical columns from the likes of Joel Sherman, Andrew Marchand and the others were way over the top. Fine, be critical, but this was one game. It does not define his managerial career and it should not be a reason to fire someone.
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Girardi’s legacy will be as someone who is not content to let the game proceed as is. He must constantly thrust himself into action, whether taking out a pitcher way too early or insisting on using five relievers per game to show how smart he is. Well, he outsmarted himself the other night. Girardi prides himself on his success ratio in protests. It is the most useless statistic in baseball. i’d rather lose more protests, as long as I’m protesting all the important ones. Girardi gives the impression of someone who’d rather lose a game than a protest. Not to mention how he threw his own catcher under the bus. I can’t remember any other manager not protesting a call that his own player vehemently begged him to do. But then again, Sanchez, like Posada, is a power hitting catcher, not someone that Girardi has much use for. As a Yankee fan of over 50 years, I will not PROTEST if Girardi is relieved of his duties, something that Hal Steinbrenner most likely doesn’t have the guts to do.