Astros fire manager

Mike Siano of MLB.com tweets that the Houston Astros have fired manager Cecil Cooper.

“#Astros have relieved Cecil Cooper of his managerial duties. 3B coach Dave Clark will take over on an interim basis through remainder of 2009,” he tweets.

OTR does not know at this time if it had anything to do with the team being 16.5 games back of the division lead, but we will look into it.