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Posted in Baseball, Fired, Transactions on Jun 23rd, 2010
After winning two straight games and playing .500 ball over the last 20 games, the Florida Marlins decided that something had to be done. They went ahead and fired Fredi Gonzalez, their manager of the last three and a half years. As for bench coach Carlos Tosca and hitting coach Jim Presley? They are gone [...]
Posted in Baseball, Fired, Transactions on Jun 4th, 2010
This isn’t terribly surprising. Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore Orioles have fired manager Dave Trembley. Trembley was the manager for the Orioles for most of the last four seasons. He finishes his sparkling tenure there with a 187-283 record. Photo Caption: Not fully understanding who does the hiring and firing [...]
Posted in Baseball, Fired, Transactions on May 9th, 2010
The Seattle Mariners needed someone to blame for their miserable 11-19 performance that has landed them in the basement of the American League West. And that person was hitting coach Alan Cockrell. The Mariners have an AL-worst .617 OPS and have lost eight straight games. They have also scored less runs than 28 of 30 [...]
Posted in Fired, NBA, Transactions on Apr 15th, 2010
The Philadelphia 76ers have done what everyone hoped they would do months ago. They have fired their head coach Eddie Jordan. OTR thinks that GM Ed Stefanski should be hitting the bricks soon too. After all, he’s the one that thought Jordan and his Princeton offense (which is predicated on passing and jump shooting) would [...]
Posted in Basketball, Fired, NCAA, Transactions on Mar 16th, 2010
The Oregon Ducks have decided to part ways with Ernie Kent after 13 years as men’s basketball coach. Kent compiled a record of 235-173 becoming the Ducks winningest coach, but Oregon now sucks. PHOTO CAPTION: Oregon Ducks alumni are pulling for Isiah Thomas to be the next coach and president of basketball operations During his [...]
Posted in Fired, NFL, Transactions on Jan 8th, 2010
The NFL is becoming a lot like the music industry anymore. Record labels aren’t going to wait for you to find your groove and hope the third album is a hit. Your first album only sold 300,000 copies? See ya. Much is the way of the NFL. You were here for one year and the [...]
Posted in Fired, NFL, Transactions on Jan 4th, 2010
The New York Giants have fired their defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan after just one year on the job, according to Mike Garafolo’s twitter account. “Bill Sheridan fired, #NYG announce,” Garafolo tweets. This isn’t a huge surprise to anyone that caught a whiff of the Giants defense in the second half of the season. They were [...]
Posted in Fired, NFL, Transactions on Jan 4th, 2010
In a surprising twist at the end of Washington’s season, the Redskins organization has chosen to cut ties with head coach Jim Zorn. PHOTO CAPTION: “What do I care, I still got paid.” Zorn was viewed by many to be the best coach in the toughest division in football, the NFC East. Although he was [...]
Posted in Fired, Football, NCAA, Transactions on Dec 3rd, 2009
Sources tell the Kansas City Star that Kansas University head coach Mark Mangino and the school have reached a settlement and he will no longer be the coach of the football team. The school has been investigating his treatment of players since November 17th and several players have come forward and alleged verbal and physical [...]
Posted in Fired, Football, NCAA, Transactions on Nov 30th, 2009
I don’t think this is much of a shock to anyone, but Notre Dame has fired Charlie Weis as their head football coach. PHOTO CAPTION: ‘Charlie Weis’ is latin for ‘man fupa’ “We have great expectations for our football program, and we have not been able to meet those expectations,” said Notre Dame athletic director [...]
A day after ESPN terminated baseball analyst and former Mets GM Steve Phillips, the company today announced Brooke Hundley has also been fired. The reason Hundley (the 22-year-old production assistant Phillips was banging on the side) was let go was not revealed. If we had to guess, we’d say she was showing up late for [...]
Posted in Baseball, Fired, Transactions on Sep 21st, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Baseball, Fired, Transactions on Jul 27th, 2009
According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Mets have fired VP of Player Development Tony Bernazard. But why? Because the Mets farm system sucks a big one and they have no one to replace the injured lineup right now? DUI? Dog fighting? What could it be? Was it a string of recent [...]
Posted in Fired, NBA, Transactions on Jul 1st, 2009
After just one year as the Detroit Pistons head coach, Joe Dumars has kindly asked Michael Curry to get the hell out and never come back. Curry only managed to squeeze out 39 wins for the Pistons this year, including a first round playoff loss against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The last-year Pistons led by Flip [...]
Posted in Fired, NBA, Transactions on Jun 17th, 2009
The Minnesota Timberwolves have decided that Kevin McHale can do anything he wants in the whole world, as long as anything he wants doesn’t include coaching the Timberwolves. “This is going to be a transition period,” said president of basketball operations David Kahn. “And with the changes that have occurred, and with the changes that [...]
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