by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
by Andrew Lang
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:
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.
So what are your questions? Continue reading
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
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
Introducing a new series of articles on Talknats: If I am Mike Rizzo for a day. This is actually the second article in this series.
If I am Mike Rizzo for a day, I am spending that day going hard after my #1 FA target this year: Ben Zobrist (sorry to steal your thunder Ghost).
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Rawlings announced the Gold Glove finalists today and Wilson Ramos and Bryce Harper were both finalists, and the winners will be announced on November 4th.
For a complete list of 2015 #Rawlings #GoldGlove Finalists, check here: https://t.co/2nereMglPm pic.twitter.com/Qk7dv0uAvO
— Rawlings Baseball (@RawlingsSports) October 29, 2015
Former Major League baseball player Lenny Dykstra is handcuffed at his arraignment in Los Angeles on June 6, 2011. (POOL / REUTERS)
Cheating in baseball is nothing new and guarantee you it happens in every game and you probably haven’t thought of framing pitches as cheating, but think about it, taking a ball you know is out of the zone and jerk it back to deceive the umpire is cheating. Cheating in baseball can be illegal like taking unprescribed performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) or sleazy like stealing signs or using an unfair advantage like a corked bat or other equipment that goes against MLB rules. Someone once coined the adage “if you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying”. Saying you were hit on the hand when it hit the bat knob or missed you altogether was performed well by Hollywood standards by Derek Jeter once to be given first base on a gifted hit-by-pitch. Pitchers put pine tar on baseballs and some will wipe some extra slop on a baseball for different movement, and the irony is that most cheating in baseball doesn’t raise an eyebrow with even the most honest people. Continue reading
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 it’s Bud Black and just waiting for the contract to be negotiated and signed. The buzz last night was that today would be the day that Bud Black would be named as was strongly hinted by this Tweet:
Bud Black is lead candidate to replace Matt Williams and could be offered deal as early as tomorrow. Dusty Baker only other candidate left.
— Jim Bowden⚾️ (@JimBowdenGM) October 26, 2015
There is no secret formula to finding a winning manager. Even 3-time Giants World Series champion manager Bruce Bochy was considered a poor manager in his 1st managerial stint during his 12 year history with the San Diego Padres although Bochy had one very successful year managing a Padres team of Tony Gwynn and Kevin Brown. When the Padres and Bochy parted ways in 2006 after a combined career .494 winning percentage, Bochy was replaced by World Series champ pitching coach Bud Black.
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