{"id":118990,"date":"2012-09-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2012\/09\/18\/poll-who-do-you-consider-an-upgrade-over-mike-scioscia\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:00:00","slug":"poll-who-do-you-consider-an-upgrade-over-mike-scioscia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/poll-who-do-you-consider-an-upgrade-over-mike-scioscia\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Who do you consider an upgrade over Mike Scioscia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tTime for a little thought experiment.&nbsp; It seems that the angry mob as lit their torch and sharpened their pitchforks with designs on storming Arte Moreno&#039;s castle to demand the head of Mike Scioscia if (NOT when, at least not yet) the Angels fail to qualify for the post-season, but I can&#039;t help but wonder to what end?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe all know by now that I am a card-carrying Scioscia apologist, so I have to ask who it is everyone thinks will do such a better job than Scioscia is currently capable of.&nbsp; In my mind, there is only really one name that qualifies, but I am curious what the rest of you think in order to provide contrasting frames of reference.&nbsp; So, rather than open things up to suggestion, let&#039;s try this.&nbsp; Below is a list of <strong>current<\/strong> MLB managers.&nbsp; That obviously isn&#039;t a full list of potential replacements for Scioscia, but it does provide some good comps since these 29 men were already deemed good enough to manage someone.&nbsp; We can talk about the Terry Franconas and Ryne Sandbergs of the world some other time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI know how I expect these results to come back, but I don&#039;t want to taint the voting by tipping my hand too much.&nbsp; Vote now though because I want to talk about this on my next podcast. And please note that you can vote for <strong>multiple managers:<\/strong><\/p>\n[polldaddy poll=6542422]\n<p>\n\tNot to sway the results or anything, but if you vote for Jim Tracy I am going to throw out your vote, ban you from the site, find out where you live and punch you in the sack.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for a little thought experiment.&nbsp; It seems that the angry mob as lit their torch and sharpened their pitchforks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96690106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkey-with-a-halo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>POLL: Who do you consider an upgrade over Mike Scioscia? 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