September
30 th
The Indians have called a 1:30 press conference for a big announcement. Looks like Eric Wedge won’t make it through the year after all. More details to come when they are available.
(Update 11:40 AM: Entire coaching staff has been dismissed. Reportedly, Wedge has known for days; Derek Shelton, Carl Willis, Chuck Hernandez, Luis Rivera and Joel Skinner were informed last night).
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How do you recover from an atomic Wedgie?
Wowzers!
Cmon now…..he’s got a year left on his contract…….”he won’t be fired”.
Why fire him with 6 games left? They should’ve fired him in May when the season was still salvagable.
WHOOOOO!
its……. about…….. time
uggghh cleveland is a terrible sports town…All hail LeBron James, please bring us championship before you leave.
I know he’s gotta go for PR reasons, but he has been scapegoated in this town in a serious way. Managers have so little to do with winning and losing. I don’t think Wedge is a “great manager” (whatever that means), but the witch hunt was outrageous. At least it’s finally over. Now we can start worrying about hating the next guy.
why so late… like really?
Hey – at least it happened.
I’m happy. This makes the DA news more bearable.
The move had to be made. If you replace Wedge with anyone in the minor league system though I am going to go crazy. I would rather keep Wedge and fire Shapiro then have to watch Lovullo or Sarbaugh here next year.
he’s getting an extension. lol
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4519460
Glad to see they cleaned house. Skinner’s time was overdue as well.
KNR just reported that Wedge is going to finish the season, but Wedge and the 7 coaches have been told they will not return next year in their current positions
Shapiro better be out of here also.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
@ 17: DITTO
if only the owners could fire themselves now
Unfortunately the oly rooting were gonna be doin in the future, is rooting for the management to be fired. While the yankees and red sox have another bout, we at least get the satisfaction of our manager fired. Gotta love the mlb!!
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