am i the only one that thinks they should hire Tony Pena as the new manager??
2007-10-24 09:25:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
No you are not the only one. Alot of other people on the Yankee forums think Tony Pena should be manager. I thought at first he should get the job, but now the yankees should hire Joe Girardi or Don Mattingly.
2007-10-24 10:19:05 · answer #1 · answered by Matt! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dig up Stengel. Prop him up in the corner of the dugout and put a uniform on him.
Joe Girardi will be the pick for manager. Especially since management has claimed they will have fine young players coming up thru the minor league system the next few years. Could there be a youth movement for the team who's used to buying championships but have failed the last 7 years? (he did miracles with a young Marlin team in '06). There was a reason Steinbrenner hired him to do color on the Yes network. It was to take him off the managerial market. He's wanted to fire Torre for years, he just knew that it would be a terrible P.R. move for the Yankees. So when Torre's contract was up they offered him a contract he couldn't accept.
FYI - No Yankee fan here. Just more knowledgeable than most Yankee fans.
goldie - I'm a fan of none of those teams. Just don't like the AL East. 2006 manager of the year credentials are hard to pass on. How many of his contemporaries are still Yankees?
2007-10-24 17:15:13 · answer #2 · answered by Brent 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pena was fired by Kansas City in part to his escapades in what became a messy divorce case. I would say the same thing about Pena as management said about Babe Ruth back in the day....if you can't control yourself, how can you manage an entire team.
2007-10-24 16:39:46 · answer #3 · answered by Zombie Birdhouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He managed the KC Royals to their only winning record the past decade so maybe he'd be good.
I always liked Pena as a player. One of my favorite moments came when he was catching for the Red Sox and Mike Hargrove was playing for the Indians. Hargrove was known as "The Human Rain Delay" because he took so much time between each pitch, adjusting his gloves, his helmet, cleaning his cleats adjusting his jock. It was interminable adn drove opposing teams insane. One time, Pena received the pitch and as he threw it back to the pitcher it "slipped" from his hand and hit Hargrove in the head. One of the funniest things I've ever seen, lol.
2007-10-24 16:41:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you wish all of that torment on a great guy and great player like Tony Pena ??
2007-10-24 16:42:47 · answer #5 · answered by gotttalovittt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brent, if you hire Joe jirardi he is managing his contemporaries and it didn't work with yogi why should it work here especially that he's a toughie and it's a veteran team with young pitchers. i don't know how much the veterans will appreciate his style
2007-10-24 18:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by goldie p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not. Though I like Giraldi as well. I think it's probably gonna be Mattingly in the end.
2007-10-24 17:03:03 · answer #7 · answered by teenhamodic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. i miss torre.
but i want pena or mattingly...i think mattingly will get it though..
next year is gonna suck!!
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2007-10-24 16:29:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a good possibility, i think it would be sort of good
2007-10-24 16:51:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-10-24 16:58:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋