how can you be pretty sure?

i find the compliance to the lack of periods distrurbing.

Leyland did it again this year too.

yes, yes, Leyland and Ozzie are the kings of the well timed pants poop. It’s what makes them geniuses and puts W’s in the standings. It’s what Wedge lacks and why we can’t win. Don’t let ESPN make you stupid.

Leyland did it on April 17, 2008. He said, “We stunk, period. Stunk, and it’s not good enough. It’s been going on here before, and it’s not going to happen here [now]. It’s not going to go on here.” They had lost 10-2 to your Cleveland Indians, and Leyland felt the players were more concerned about getting out of town for their road trip than winning the game.

They lost, 4-3, the next night, then went on to end April on a 9-2 run.

But I prefer this Leyland rant, even if it never really happend (although the mental image of a be-socked Leyland may be considered unsettling to some).

Let’s be honest. If it took an old man yelling at them to jump start the team, none of the players on the Tigers—especially the veteran ones—have any business on a major league ballclub. The same goes for any team.

And I’m with Jay on Wedge’s fireworks. The media doesn’t have access to the clubhouse whenever they please. I think that’s the way you should be handling a team: take issues privately and act like all is well publicly.

Datz: It’s a miracle.

This is one weglarz lesson in toughness

This is one bearded lesson in toughness

This is one panini lesson in toughness

This is one moustache lesson in toughness

This is one guthrie or phillips lesson in toughness

This is one skinnner lesson in toughness

This is one omar lesson in toughness

This is one [Sal Fasano’s moustache] in toughness.

Actually, other articles quote him as saying “this is one hell of a lesson in toughness.”

Wedge should call each new call-up into his office, make them sit down and proceed to scream at them at the top of his lungs for three minutes. His face has to get beet red. That should do it.

this is buster olney level speculation here.

I don’t think the timing of the meeting allows us to assume that Wedge fears for his job. It could have been called anytime during the 0-10 road trip. When the trip began, it was described as make or brake. Obviously, the team came back broke.

Whether he called the meeting after being swept by Chicago, or after being swept by Minnesota, rather than after being swept Detroit really makes no difference.

The article also points out that he had it in Cleveland so the players on the DL would be there too. That makes sense to me, especially considering who’s on the DL.

Moreover, I think the meeting would stay with the players more if it happened in their home locker room, where it will come back to haunt them more often. I have no idea if Wedge thought that or not.

Lastly why should he fear for his job. We can all take shots at him for his managerial abilities, but he did win MOR last season – that’s gotta be worth some job security in most rational organizations. Plus, one of the reasons for hiring him in the first place was his supposed ablity in developing young talent, and that’s what the team needs most now.

I’ve decided you don’t know what you’re talking about. I can’t quantify why. My mind is made up.

A MLB manager needs to be many things, but a motivator isn’t really one of them. That’s a nice media image perpetuated by movies and self-aggrandizing pants-poopers like Ozzie Guillen. There are plenty of things to criticze about Eric Wedge, but his inability to motivate Jeremy Sowers into not giving up homers or Victor Martinez into not being hurt or Ryan Garko into not sucking isn’t on the list.