Felipe Alou done after 4 seasons...
 

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"I'm proud of my behavior, my respect to the game, people, to the cities and countries, the flags," Alou said last week. "I don't like .500. A .500 man to me is mediocrity. You don't choose your tools."


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Nice. Way to make excuses.

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Well... at least he's got his endorsements to fall back on.

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Good F'ing Riddance!

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That roster is in the shambles. If Stanton hadn't had a miracle run of a couple months it would be even more obvious that the problem was that Sabean made several gambles and none of them worked. I don't understand the hating on Felipe.

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He's not making excuses, that team sucks and sucks bad.

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That roster is in the shambles. If Stanton hadn't had a miracle run of a couple months it would be even more obvious that the problem was that Sabean made several gambles and none of them worked. I don't understand the hating on Felipe.

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I'll assume you are a Giants fan (I am). I believe a manager has to obviously play the cards they are given. With that, I did not expect the Giants to win the WS any of the last 3 years. But... his managing of the one play-off run he had with the Giants was infuriating (JT Slow not pinch-run for???). Through his 4 seasons , he never could decide if he should leave pitchers in, or run through 5 pitchers in a matter of innings opting to almost randomly choose either option game by game. He tweaked line-ups that seemed to be working and stayed too long with line-ups that couldn't get it done. I don't think he did any better than sub-par managing within his tenure.

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Through his 4 seasons , he never could decide if he should leave pitchers in, or run through 5 pitchers in a matter of innings opting to almost randomly choose either option game by game.

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Of course the roster is in disarray, but this drives me nuts. I hate how me managed the bullpen.

Guys are warming up, sitting, warming up... I know the current environment features more pitching changes than ever before, but he took the righty-lefty matchup to an absurd conclusion. This is in part why I'd rather not see Brenly as the next manager, as I seem to recall him being an over-manager when it came to the pitching staff.

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man, gotta love Alou [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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sure, the team sucked, but he was a terrible manager too.

rj

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I agree that his handling of the bullpen=teh suck, along with his overall handling of the pitching staff. Cain, Schmidt and Lowry were allowed to throw too many pitches during most starts. I think the poor performance of Schmidt and Lowry, plus a bad few starts to end the year for Cain, are evidence of this.

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That bullpen would make anyone look stupid.