We’ll Make It Work—#Nats introduce Dusty Baker as Manager

At 11 a.m. on the dot, F.P. Santangelo introduced Mike Rizzo. Mike was in a good mood, pointing out that he had a tie on and had broken out his World Series ring–which he only wears on his favorite day of the year, the first day of the draft. Then he turned it over to Dusty Baker (also sporting World Series rings). Dusty put on a show, a very entertaining show. This is going to be fun, I thought. Baseball should be fun.

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Press Conference Questions Take 2

After the serious discussions, especially Breaking: MASN lawsuit Decided for the moment, time for a light-hearted article.

Now that we know the manager is Dusty Baker and not Bud Black, here are some questions for the press conference, including some that almost certainly won’t be asked. Note that a few of them are carry-overs from the Bud Black list.

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Breaking: MASN lawsuit Decided for the moment.

MLB/Nats lose this round in court. Judge rules in favor of the Orioles on the arbitration award lacked impartiality. Reported in the comments for the previous article by MicheleS.

Read the ruling here. Discuss here!

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“Nats News | Dusty Baker Officially Named Manager. Who is he?”

Everyone in baseball knows the name Dusty Baker, but few Nats fans really know him. The most recognizable man in the world with a toothpick.  Johnnie Baker, Jr. will turn 67 years old on June 15th of the 2016 season and he says he feels young and ready to take on this managerial job, and don’t call him Johnnie.

Yesterday in the early morning, Mike Rizzo threw the baseball world another curveball and it was caught by Dusty Baker who accepted the job as the 6th full-time manager of the Washington Nationals. Baker will enter on Opening Day only behind Bochy as the winningest active manager.

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So you want to be a manager? Dusty Baker took the job that most thought Bud Black would get.

We will repeat this that there are only 30 MLB Managers jobs in the world.  Compare that to a typical 750 man workforce of MLB players made up of 60 catchers,  90 outfielders, 120 non-catching bench players, 120 infielders, 150 starting pitchers, and 210 relief pitchers is the total make-up of the MLB.

With a population of 320,090,000 citizens of the USA, your odds of making it as a MLB manager are about a .00000000937 chance and even worse when you consider they could hire a non-US citizen.  Your odds of winning a Mega lottery jackpot in a year has even better odds at .0000000649 on a per person basis.  Your chance of getting struck by lightning is even better at .0000000143 than being an active MLB manager.

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A wild pitch! Dusty Baker officially named 6th manager of the #Nats

As we wrote last night after we broke the news that there was a snag in the Bud Black deal and have said dozens of times “It’s never a deal until pen is on paper by both parties” and it is now! Dusty Baker is officially named the Nats manager.  Early last we found out that the Bud Black deal was not close to a ‘done deal’ much to our surprise as all these other reports were not accurate.  In fact, we were told there was a snag.

OFFICIAL!

We posted this earlier last night:

BREAKING 7:15PM 11/2/2015: Our Source: the Bud Black hiring has hit a snag over years in the contract. Will this get worked out?  We sure hope so!

We Tweeted this at 7:18PM:

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Avoiding a ‘Black’ eye: Make the pen mightier than the sword. Dusty Baker or Bud Black #Nats

It’s never a deal until pen is on paper by both parties.  Earlier this evening we found out that the Bud Black deal was not close to a ‘done deal’ much to our surprise as all these other reports were not accurate.  In fact, we were told there was a snag.

We posted this earlier:

BREAKING 7:15PM 11/2/2015: Our Source: the Bud Black hiring has hit a snag over years in the contract. Will this get worked out?  We sure hope so!

We Tweeted this at 7:18PM:

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BREAKING: Snag on Bud Black coming to the Nationals

BREAKING 4:15PM 11/2/2015: Our Source: the Bud Black hiring has hit a snag over years in the contract, and the deal has fallen apart. The Nats have now moved on to Dusty Baker. 

UPDATE 3:30PM 11/2/15: No press conference yet because the Nats  still have not officially announced Bud Black’s hiring and consistent with that, TalkNats has been careful to qualify that it was not a done deal because it was not as the contract had to be negotiated after the final interviews on Monday. As we posted on October 26, 2015 at 8:03PM EST:

Our source has told us that Mike Rizzo has made his decision on who will be the 6th full-time manager for the Washington Nationals and that person is __________________; however, the official announcement won’t happen today and might not happen tomorrow as the World Series starts on Tuesday which would mean this official announcement could take until after the World Series ends.

Our source has said repeatedly Bud Black was offered the deal first but it has not been fully negotiated and signed.

As you know, until the deal is signed and terms agreed to it is not a done deal.


Well, now that the Mets blew it (again), the World Series is over. That means the press conference to announce Bud Black as the manager could be today if the deal gets done. So here are some questions for the press conference, including some that almost certainly won’t be asked.

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Constructing a coaching staff #Nats

Rumors, rumors, rumors. Have the potential Managerial candidates been talking to potential coaches for a coaching staff? Just because nobody has been ‘officially’ announced as the 6th full-time manager of the Washington Nationals, you have to think about it. Continue reading

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Exclusive: Talk Nats talks with Bud Black’s former players and it’s unanimous that he’s a great guy!

We formed a group to reach out and talk to people who know Bud Black, and the resounding responses we heard over and over is “he is a great guy”, “a wonderful guy”, “someone you can talk to”, “a person who has your back”, “a Manager who believes in you”, and those words were spoken to us by every player we talked to in similar phraseology. Continue reading

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