Maybe Girardi isn't out after all No, he's out

by Scott Christ on Jun 21, 2007 1:50 PM EDT in News & Rumors

Washington Post says that the talks are still "ongoing."

Everyone spin around in a circle 20 times and touch your nose three times on every odd turn, and on every even turn, go BACKWARDS. It's silly hat day at the country club! Go get a silly hat to play golf in!

Rick Dempsey's going to interview??! Why not! That gomer would be a PR disaster/circus/good time.

We still play the Padres at 3:35, in case you forgot.

I have Orioles fever and I have a silly hat on now! To play squash. I'm playing squash in a silly hat.

Joe Girardi Dusty Baker Jerry Manuel Don Baylor Rick Dempsey!

I SAID IT'S GREAT

TO BE

A BALTIMORE ORIOLE

Update: Nevermind, he's definitely out. He has no interest in managing this team. Good for you, Joe. Stick with it! SILLY HAT DAY CAN'T BE HAD WITH JOE GIRARDI

Update: One of these guys is having the BEST WEEK EVER!!!

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I call BS

The WaPo guy is trying to cover his ass for getting scooped. I mean, we have statements from GIRARDI HIMSELF saying it's over. When I read what he said, it doesn't strike me as the words of a man still struggling over a decision. He's made it, and his answer was No. And it will stay that way, I bet.

by duck on Jun 21, 2007 1:52 PM EDT reply actions

psst...you guys

I think maybe SC has gone round the bend.

Millar for Manager!!

by Stacey on Jun 21, 2007 1:53 PM EDT reply actions

Nah

he's just never worked in a newsroom to find out just how reporters act like self-centered jealous jerks, especially when screamed at by nervous-for-their-jobs editors. It ain't fun, let me tell you. I used to live in fear of the 6 p.m. news that there was something I missed in the county I covered.

by duck on Jun 21, 2007 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Stupid Question

But if he has no interest in managing this team, then why did he go through the interview, negotiation circus. Is this guy that big of a dick???

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Jun 21, 2007 1:54 PM EDT reply actions

answer

Yes.

Well, maybe.

I think he considered it. I think he decided after meeting with them it wasn't for him. That's not surprising, really. I also think, since I hate Girardi, that he did this to keep his name out there, and to show that he is not to bring the class managing skills of a JOE GIRARDI down here among us mortals.

"People say losing is easy. Come here and try it." -- Brian Roberts

by Scott Christ on Jun 21, 2007 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Power trip? Bargaining chip?

Maybe he used this as leverage against George to seal the deal to get the Yanks job for next year. "Promise me now, or I'll take this job!"

by duck on Jun 21, 2007 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

a promise from George is like......

well i don't know what its like but i wouldn't trust that sumbitch.

That said I'm glad he's not coming that clears the way for John Jancuska to be hired.

by BENNYBIRDMAN on Jun 21, 2007 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe he's waiting for his Billy Donovan moment

to reconsider?

The new Oriole way...Finding new ways to suck.

by elktonfan on Jun 21, 2007 2:05 PM EDT reply actions

I'm a Gator

don't relate girardi to donovan! donovan at least is a proven winner. girardi had one better than expected losing season. and he didn't accept the o's job anyway. =/

by dfleis on Jun 21, 2007 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions

hey

Where's LB3? I wanna hear that SOB's opinions on all this.

"People say losing is easy. Come here and try it." -- Brian Roberts

by Scott Christ on Jun 21, 2007 2:06 PM EDT reply actions

Absolutely...

we need our poet laureate back to share his wit and candor with the rest of us.

The new Oriole way...Finding new ways to suck.

by elktonfan on Jun 21, 2007 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions

You're the one that banned him...

right? Or did he voluntarily fade into the woodwork? He did seem a bit unhinged at the end there...

by duck on Jun 21, 2007 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

RE:

At the end???

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Jun 21, 2007 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Well...

MORE unhinged, how about that?

by duck on Jun 21, 2007 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah

But he came back shortly after as simply "larry bigbie," which didn't really matter since I was going to bring him back anyway. Then he was around for a while and again disappeared, although that was not a banning.

"People say losing is easy. Come here and try it." -- Brian Roberts

by Scott Christ on Jun 21, 2007 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions

So really, he could be any of us.

BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS PORN

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by BrianS on Jun 21, 2007 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions

I think each of the Orioles should manage the team

They should do it in rotation, by alphabetical order, or height. I really want to watch the game when Mora manages. He'll put himself in the lineup twice.

by tbone shelby on Jun 21, 2007 2:06 PM EDT reply actions

But will he let himself know

when he's not in the line up?

The new Oriole way...Finding new ways to suck.

by elktonfan on Jun 21, 2007 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions

re

That way he can drag bunt one time and bunt in drag the next.

In Loving Memory of GWP October 23, 1986 - May 13, 2006

by BPinOK on Jun 21, 2007 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions

RE:

Lewis Black had a plan on how the President should be selected; I'm thinking we could apply the same technique. Really, what do we have to lose?

Every four years, the winner of American Idol is blindfolded and throws a dart at a map of the United States. Wherever the dart hits, you fly over in an airplane and toss out a monkey with a parachute. After the monkey lands on the ground, the first person whose hand it touches is the president.

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Jun 21, 2007 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions