{"id":226,"date":"2018-08-09T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/?page_id=226"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:22:13","slug":"wo-is-me-no-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haughtcorner.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"“Wo” is Me? No, but …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently ran two stories about Giants coach Ron Wotus, a longtime favorite of mine. There’s an op-ed piece here<\/a> and an interview\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ron appreciated the stories, but as it turns out, he also interviewed for the manager’s job \"WotusSF\"with the San Diego Padres, in addition to the five<\/em> other teams mentioned in the story.<\/p>\n

Good grief.<\/p>\n

This is beyond ridiculous. Each season we see guys managing teams who seem to be functionally illiterate and can barely tie their shoes; yet Ron and other “solid baseball men” are kept on the outside, looking in.<\/p>\n

Shame on them.<\/p>\n

And shame on the Giants most of all, for not realizing what an asset they have in Ron, and for not having a succession plan in place. (And the way this season is going for San Francisco, several people in the organization are going to need some succession planning.)<\/p>\n

When I started The Haught Corner<\/em>, I swore I wouldn’t do “fan rants” full of uneducated opinions about teams and how they operate.<\/p>\n

Well, this is an exception. It’s galling, and on some level, insulting. It happens time and again: the “name” manager gets the nod over someone like Ron, who has 20+ years of service to the organization and has succeeded wherever he has gone.<\/p>\n

I asked Dave Bristol about what it’s like to be fired from major-league managerial jobs.<\/p>\n

“That’s baseball,” he told me. “You just do the best job you can, and move on.”<\/p>\n

But does it really have<\/em> to be that way? After all, as Larry Dierker famously wrote, “this isn’t brain surgery” — and he should know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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