Manny Acta Named Manager Of Indians

[sportznut02]

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this sucks. I hate this ownership and managment, man do i miss Dick Jacobs.

[snepp]

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Acta lives in his mother's basement?!?!

No, but he does sit in front of his computer in his underwear.

[Segagendude]

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Sizemore and Hafner will be next to be dealt out of town. All superstars we have will be gone. Dolan doesn't like spending money, it seems...

(And I like how he says "we're building for the future"......what's that, Dolan? 2030????)

[Lintyfresh85]

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I like Acta because he appears to be (at least acknowledge) sabre stuff.

And honestly, a baseball manager really doesn't do anything.

He knows of it... but he uses it in all the wrong situations.

I've spent a couple years watching him on the Nats broadcast. The Tribe will only get worse under him.

[J0nnD0ugh]

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Acta wasn't the sole reason for the Nationals' failures last year (or 2 years ago). There was no pitching and in 2008 no offense.

He wasn't the sole reason. But he was a reason. Like I said before on this forum, no one expected the Nats to finish above last & they still managed to underacheive w/him as manager.

w/Acta: 26-61
w/o Acta: 33-42

Why would a last place team hire a manager who made a last place team worse?

[pfunk880]

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There's no way in hell we went from Wedge to Acta. Is Shapiro pulling a Major League and trying to get the franchise relocated?

LMAO

Acta lives in his mother's basement?!?!

[rsox]

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Sizemore and Hafner will be next to be dealt out of town. All superstars we have will be gone. Dolan doesn't like spending money, it seems...

(And I like how he says "we're building for the future"......what's that, Dolan? 2030????)

Lucky for Hafner he's not a superstar. Sizemore on the other hand will probably be dealt when it comes time for a new contract.

[PVarck31]

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Sizemore and Hafner will be next to be dealt out of town. All superstars we have will be gone. Dolan doesn't like spending money, it seems...

(And I like how he says "we're building for the future"......what's that, Dolan? 2030????)

We have been building for the future for 7 years. Every time we get a home grown player that turns into a star or superstar we trade them when their big league deal is up. How is this building for the future? The only thing I can think of is the Dolan's hope we will get lucky before these deals are up and win a sausage.

As far as Manny Acta, simple logic would say that he was a poor choice for a manager. But when do Cleveland teams ever let Logic get in the way of a cheap deal??

[SPTO]

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He wasn't the sole reason. But he was a reason. Like I said before on this forum, no one expected the Nats to finish above last & they still managed to underacheive w/him as manager.

w/Acta: 26-61
w/o Acta: 33-42

Why would a last place team hire a manager who made a last place team worse?

You should put some context to those numbers as it was Jim Riggleman, a manager who has been mediocre to sometimes outright bad as a skipper that got the Nats to play better.

Think about that for a bit.

The Tribe may as well get used to playing in front of empty seats for the next few years.

[Segagendude]

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I actually wanted Cito Gaston when he was available before. But the FO was happy with Wedgie.

[Segagendude]

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The Tribe may as well get used to playing in front of empty seats for the next few years.

Ahh, the 80's revisited. Talk about going retro.......

[bjf1377]

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The Tribe may as well get used to playing in front of empty seats for the next few years.

Woo, back to general admission tickets! Why oh why do I root for the Indians and the Padres?

[SPTO]

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I actually wanted Cito Gaston when he was available before. But the FO was happy with Wedgie.

I've often wondered how Cito would've done in a place other then Toronto. He was a 50/50 shot from getting the Chicago job as it came down to him and Ozzie. I think the main reason Ozzie was hired was due to Reinsdorf being more familiar and comfortable with Ozzie being the manager.

[Marino]

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How about a Manny for Sizemore deal. :wink:

[ryan36]

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Ya'll need to bring back Grover. And John Hart.



...like a true M's fan!