ESPN, the Tampa Tribune. Pravda and Cat Fancy are all reporting the Devil Rays will name former Angels coach Joe Maddon (shown above, getting ready to take his clothes off) as their new manager.
More details to follow after the 8pm showing of “Get Rich Or Die Trying”.
(UPDATE : Details culled from the Tampa Tribune’s Scott Carter.
In their extensive six-week search to replace Tampa native Lou Piniella, who stepped down in October after accepting a $2.2-million buyout of the final season of his original four-year contract, the Rays chose Maddon over John McLaren, Piniella’s longtime associate and Tampa Bay’s bench coach the past three seasons.
The offer is believed to be for three years and financial terms have yet to be finalized between the Rays and Maddon’s agent, Alan Nero.
Maddon’s hiring is the latest move by the Rays’ new regime to cut ties with the past and start over completely with a fresh outlook. Maddon, a veteran Angels coach who has spent the past six seasons as Mike Scioscia’s bench coach, is expected to arrive in the Tampa Bay area in the next 24 hours for a Tuesday press conference.
Maddon has built a solid reputation over the years for his baseball acumen and use of computers to analyze players and trends in the game.
Which explains, presumably, why he wasn’t under consideration for the Dodger job. Nor was Mike Schmidt a finalist in Tampa.)
Is this supposed to be funny, or something? So, you sit at the computer 24/7, pretty much, right? You life of the party, you.
well, if I had a date to the 8pm showing of “Get Rich Or Die Trying”, then clearly I’m not sitting at the computer 24/7. And really, who is more entitled to call his or herself the life of the party ;
a) me, enjoying a first-run, major motion picture in the company of a beautiful young woman
b) you, reading CSTB looking for something to moan about, while I’m at the movies.
c) a person who repeatedly posts to the CSTB comments sections under the names “Rog”, “Fucky”, “Dick”, “Lenny”, “TK” and seems to have a serious hard on for hstencil, yet has trouble hiding his IP address.
d) Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
I’m inclined to think this is a tie between “b” and “c”.
But seriously, I’m not at the computer 24/7. At least an hour a day is taken up by dog walking and/or trying to get telemarketers to tell me what they’re wearing.
C’mon CSTB, isn’t it possible that hstencil, Rog, Fucky, Dick, Lenny, and TK all live in the same flat, and have pooled their money to buy a single computer? Or are filming the upcoming Real World Staten Island?
I know it’s off topic – but speaking of telemarketers…one hung up on me Friday night after a series of comic misunderstandings about a trial offer of the Scranton Times being delivered to my home free of charge courtesy of the department store Boscovs. Furthermore, and still off-topic, was 50’s movie any good?
you forgot Mr. Roper.