People should quit being so damn sensitive. I seriously doubt that that is the full story.
. . . and a certain guy whose been biding his time doing morning drive sports talk will start salivating.
I doubt Glavine wants to work that hard. Mazzone on the other hand would leave in the middle of the morning show and be at Turner Field in about 10 minutes.If McDowell is fired (which I think will happen, remember, some people still hate Atlanta for the John Rocker fiasco), then either Tom Glavine or Leo Mazzone will be named interim pitching coach for the year, or they call someone up from the minors.
If McDowell is fired (which I think will happen, remember, some people still hate Atlanta for the John Rocker fiasco), then either Tom Glavine or Leo Mazzone will be named interim pitching coach for the year, or they call someone up from the minors.
If this guy's story even sort of holds up, then it won't be the anti-gay comments that get McDowell fired; that would just earn him a nice long suspension. What will get him fired is yelling the thing about kids not belonging at the ballpark. If the Braves don't fire him then Selig will.
If I spent over a hundred bucks to take my family to the ballpark, and one of the coaches screamed at and threatened me in front of my kids, I'd probably make as big and nasty and public a stink about it as I could too in order to get the MFer fired.
There was a time in Leo's career when serious columns were written about him asking whether it would be possible for a pitching coach to get in the Hall of Fame. Remember that?
Even then, though, everybody sort of wondered what kind of a job he would do if he didn't have a rotation full of Hall of Famers. And what happened is he went to Baltimore and showed us.
To be fair though, Baltimore isn't the best situation. I mean, they do kind of suck.
No question. But Mazzone's reputation before the Baltimore gig was as a miracle worker. And then he put himself into a situation where actual miracles sort of needed to be worked, and shockingly it didn't happen. Once you took the HOFers out of the rotation and John Schuerholz out of the talent-acquisition process, there wasn't a whole lot left under Mazzone's dress.
I think he'd be fine if he came back; he's a good pitching coach. But it's funny to think back about all the credit he got 10-15 years ago.