Ichiro did not want to...so they let Hargrove go...true or false?
2007-07-11 02:42:32 · 7 answers · asked by Dave 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
False, Hargrove quit because he said he lost his passion for the game. I believe when he says that. Can't people just leave to guy alone? He didn't want to coach anymore, so instead of coaching for the rest of the season, knowing he didn't really want to be there, he quit. I admire him for that.
2007-07-11 02:53:17 · answer #1 · answered by starysky2004 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's absolutely true, but for diffrerent reasons. Ichiro is a free agent after this season and the Mariners obviously want to try to resign him. Hargrove and Ichiro did not get along at all and I guarantee that Ichiro wouldn't have signed a new contract with Seattle if Hargrove was still the manager. So the front office told Hargrove that the situation, if they could resign Ichiro he would no longer be the manager of the team effective next season. He told them to go to hell and quit. For both sides to save face, they made up that lame story about him losing his passion for the game. That doesn't make any sense to me - this was the first winning team he had since 1997 with Cleveland and he loses his passion in the middle of an 8 game winning streak?!? I don't think so.
2007-07-11 15:22:45 · answer #2 · answered by DoReidos 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Completely false! Mike Hargrove left the Mariners because of a lack of desire to coach. He was quoted as saying he didn't have the fire to win anymore...that the grind of going to the park everyday was not there anymore.
He did the right thing in walking away, rather than going through the motions.
2007-07-11 10:09:51 · answer #3 · answered by brianwerner1313 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is false. The mariners didn't fire hargrove, he quit due to burnout. Baseball isn't like the nba, they do not bow to every whim of their superstars. The mariners had the fifth best record in the american league at the time, well above expectations.
2007-07-11 10:15:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
False, his departure had nothing to do with Ichiro. Hargrove said he was leaving because of "burn-out" and we should take him at his word.
2007-07-11 09:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows why Hargrove quit so soon.
2007-07-11 09:44:52 · answer #6 · answered by Yahoo Man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
false...why are all of these rumors coming up now, isnt it simple to for once just believe what the man said, and that is that he has had enough, that his job has finally started to feel like a job and not something fun to do and he knows he cant give his all.
2007-07-11 09:47:33 · answer #7 · answered by phill17 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋