FireCharlieManuel.com For Sale
The Phillies are pretty pathetic. Charlie Manuel has been atrocious and FireCharlieManuel.com has been nothing but boring. As of yesterday you can bid on the domain name FireCharlieManuel.com and create whatever kind of brilliant website you can come up with to get Cholly out of town. I don't have the time or the inclination to put any effort in to making the website a worthwhile place to visit and I know there are people out there who want Charlie gone with a passion. Charlie seems like a nice guy, who just doesn't make a good manager so I find it hard to make a website about calling for a guy to lose his job. But I know someone out there can do it.
FireCharlieManuel.com can be yours!
why fire charlie so quick? The reason the phillies are doing so bad has mainly been pitching. Do you think if we get a new manager our pitching will improve? How much of a difference does a manager really make in the win and loss columns?
Posted by: Ray | Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 09:59 AM
Get better pitchers & Fire Charlie. Easier said then done.
Posted by: Maria | Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 12:38 PM
As I see it now, we literally have one starter with any major league experience up until the all-star break. And that's hoping that Lieber and Wolf come back healthy and Myers isn't in jail. Madson has some, but he's not proven and Hamels and Matheison are still drinking out of cups with lids on them. I'd be willing to make the claim that our pitching staff is the worst in the league and firing the ramblin' southerner won't do much to help that.
Posted by: Nick | Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 01:59 PM
Though I agree the pihllies record is not all charlie's fault, you can't fire the whole team. A message needs to be sent, and fring manuel will do that. Fire Maunel, trade Abreu, and get a decent pitcher and maybe we can turn this around. Plus, if the phillies are gonna suck, I'd rather have a fiery manager to get on Abreu and Burrell's case. I know they feel that charlie is a players' manager. The players may like him, but they also feel that losing is acceptable under him. I pose this question: How many people like thier boss?
Posted by: Tom | Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 05:06 PM
I just don't understand the logic of trading Bobby Abreu for a starting pitcher. You get a guy that MAY help you once every 5 days versus a guy you know will do something productive EVERY day. Considering the band box the Phils play in, it really makes no sense.
My problem with the Phillies is while other teams are hiring young geniuses like Theo Epstein as their GMs, we hire the antediluvian Pat Gillick.
Posted by: Erik | Friday, June 30, 2006 at 01:26 PM
It makes no sense to trade abreu unless you are going to get an ace, hes too valuable. There aren't that many great pitchers around these days with so many teams in the league so if a team has an ace they're not gonna just give him up. If they were willing to give one up that would probably mean that they want to start to rebuild and would want prospects, and not a veteran like abreu.
Posted by: Ray | Friday, June 30, 2006 at 03:19 PM