Coaches on fire.

Now, first off, I know I’m not a football coach, baseball manager, basketball coach, hockey coach, or any other person of high importance on a sports team. But when I hear knews that a manager or coach will be fired because of a bad year that the team had, that just pisses off the hell out of me.

This has been on my mind for several years now but I finally decided to type it out with the recent news that Joe Torre of the New York Yankees may be fired. And for those who don’t know, they’re keeping him.

But, for other cases, why should the coach be fired if the team’s piss-poor performance led to an atrocious season? I don’t see the manager out there on the field pitching to batters giving up home runs or striking out at the plate. I’m pretty sure that’s what the players are doing. Why should the manager lose his job, when the team’s play led to a dismal year without making the playoffs or even winning more games than they lost? The manager goes out there every day, he trains his team during workouts, he gives them advice, words of wisdom and other tidbits of information that make them want to play harder, he beats them to the edge and flirts with pushing them off of it, and he even laces their gatorate bottles with steroids! Well, maybe not the steroids thing, but I can’t imagine a manager going out there and telling his team they suck and telling them stuff like “You’re probably not going to win this game, so just go out there, throw the ball however you can, and don’t be afraid to strike out. It’s only a game, not a big deal if we lose one. We got 161 games left to go.”

Let’s take the Yankees for example. In 10 seasons with the Yankees, Joe Torre won 1079 games and lost just 699 losses. The team reached the World Series 6 times, and won 4 times. He also won 2 Manager of the Year awards. I mean, this guy does everything in his power to make the Yankees play well, but this year, they were upset by the underdog Detroit Tigers. How that’s Joe’s Torre’s fault I have no idea. But there were rumors that he would get fired because the Yankees didn’t advance past the first round of the playoffs. It’s not his fault his team, with the exception of a few players, decided to get cold bats when the playoffs began. If Joe Torre could have done something more, he would have.

And to really show how pissed off I am about Joe Torre’s name being tossed around with the word ‘fired’ like a salad, I don’t even like Joe Torre! I admit he’s a good manager, but the guy’s happy face looks like he’s just been to a funeral. I don’t think anything could make this guy smile, unless his team won 162 games in a row to start the season, and then 12 more wins to start the playoffs.

So, what I’m saying is, managers and coaches (this applies to other sports too) shouldn’t be disrespected the way they are. It’s not they fault that the team isn’t playing how it should be.

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Yahoo Phishes

So I was roaming around Yahoo when I had a sudden urge to go check out the APIs. Good thing I have the new, and also trusty, Microsoft Live Toolbar installed. As I entered the Yahoo Developer Center, an at first semi-transparent pop-up opened on my screen. I gasped, then realized the pop-up was my friend.

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Even Roboform knows that the site is a real Yahoo site, but apparently Microsoft is still trying to put Yahoo out of business.

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