It would be nice to see Orel as manager of the A's, but I still want them to hire Ron Washington.

i'd still be pretty upset @ our management for not hiring Orel i mean come on! he's our last true CY YOUNG!

Orel Hershiser will be in the ESPN booth next year. The A's will hire Bob Geren.

As for the Dodgers, who knows what kind of manager he would have been, but I like Grady so I'm ok with Orel not getting get the job.

I love Hershiser and think he's smart enough for any job, but I think he needs more of an apprenticeship before becoming a ML manager than he thinks he needs. Hence, the sportscasting gig.

Maybe pitching coaches have bad track records as managers because most of them were pitching coaches when hired to become managers but never spent time learning the craft of managing in the minors. Or not.

If the Dodgers know this I am sure other teams know this as well.

Hershiser came up through the Dodger organization and thus would not make a good manager, minor league chief, or announcer for that matter.

Good thing baseball has such a good retirement system because long time Dodgers arn't qualified to be in key positions after their playing days are over.

Hershiser and Karros arn't wanted by the Dodgers because the Dodgers don't want their own culture getting in the way of their future.

Sad. Very sad. Now, let's go get another Giant or Indian to lead the the Dodger future. And, if possible, let's sign a few old Giants to play for the Dodgers.

For some reason, the Yankees are reported to have picked up Gary Sheffield's option:

"This will not work, this will not work at all," Sheffield told the newspaper. "I don't want to play first base a year for them. I will not do that."
...

"I don't know what they're (Yankees) going to do," Sheffield said. "Maybe they picked it up just to trade me. If they do that, if I just (go) to a team for one year, there's going to be a problem."

"The Mets can be pretty certain their pen and lineup will be strong next year. They need to find a second baseman, preferably righty hitting, and an intriguing possibility is Rich Aurilia, a New Yorker who was signed to his first pro contract by a Rangers scout named Omar Minaya. Minaya loves free agent Julio Lugo. But so does new Cubs manager Lou Piniella (who had him in Tampa Bay) and the Red Sox, so the price is going to get steep."

http://tinyurl.com/wy3vt

21 - Sheffield's character, or lack thereof, is ultimately his undoing. I have had a feeling for a while now that he would not handle his aging well, and his comments about playing first base prove it.

They've built themselves a nice squad of DH's out there in the Bronx.

23 - Richie would be an intersting pick up for LA (not just as an ex-Giant with a sweet mustache either), who could face a steady diet of lefties as a backup 3B and 2B.

Trouble is Cincinnati has a $3M option for him next year. They'd be wise to pick that up. He had a really great year for them, easily earning his money.

Joe Torre, John McGraw, Gil Hodges, Ozzie Guillen, Hank Bauer, Lou Boudreau, Tris Speaker, Bob Brenly, Al Dark, Ralph Houk, Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Miller Huggins, Frank Chance, Rogers Hornsby, among others, all won championships without I believe ever having managed in the minors. Also some other accomplished managers who never won championships, like the Robinson brothers (Frank and Wilbert).

There are so many Sheffield gems in that quote its hard to know where to start:

1. He is bullying and threatening Steinbrenner, the only guy to stand by Gary and give him the respect he thinks he deserves. At least Sheffield doesn't discriminate. He is an equal opportunity jerk.

2. Gary, what will be the "problem"? Is that a threat to loaf again? You are under a contract, if they want to trade you to SF so you can play in the same outfield as your ex-juicing buddy Barry there isn't anything you can do about it (absent a no trade clause which I presume you don't have or you would have mouthed off about that).

3. Nice going Gary, you want your new team to give you a multi-year deal---threatening your old team is a real good way to get it (NOT).

4. Continue to piss off the richest team in baseball and they will sit your butt down for a year and watch you rot. See who picks you up after that.

5. Finally, thank you for removing any doubt that you had changed. All these years later and you still threaten the owner. Good luck in Japan in 2008 (if they will have you).

Random thoughts:
#1 What is a 'Pee Chee' folder?

#2 - What do Dodger fans think of Orel Hershiser, Cleveland Indian? He averaged 15 wins and had a .681 winning percentage in 3 years in Cleveland. That had to hurt after averaging about 5 wins a year and being below .500 in the 5 previous years in LA. I forgot how good Orel H. was in CLE and how mediocre he was in LA during those years.

30 - Almost every boy I went to grade school with at one time or another had a Pee Chee folder to hold their homework - it was yellow with sketches of different people playing sports all over it.