I know, I know, Woody Paige is a blowhard. But his column in the Denver Post today brought back a rush of bad memories for me.
One of the charges against Tracy in Pittsburgh was that he took too much credit when the team won and blamed the players too much when the Pirates lost.
After the game Sunday, Tracy blamed his starter Jorge De La Rosa for not pitching properly to Gonzalez when he had an 0-2 count, allowing the Padres slugger to homer.
Gonzalez wouldn’t have homered if he were standing on first base. Don’t give me that old manager’s lame excuse of lefty on lefty. Couldn’t the Rockies use Gonzalez?
Tracy then blamed his pinch-hitter Smith for not hitting properly when he had a 3-2 count. According to Tracy, the Rockies cannot “do any hitting with the bat on their shoulder.”
Is Jim Tracy a bad manager? Well, it’s hard as such to say that someone is a bad manager when he’s stzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz …
I don’t think the Pirates will ever have a manager that annoys me more than Tracy did.
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