In 2006 the Florida Marlins hired Joe Girardi as their manager after previous manager Jack McKeon retired. It was Girardi’s first managerial job and he nearly turned the Marlins completely around and had a struggling team from the year before in wild card contention late in the ’06 season. He was liked by fans, liked by his players, but he and Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria didn’t get along. After the season Girardi was named the National League’s Manager of the Year, but he was also fired by Loria, becoming the first manager in history to win that honor and be fired in the same season. Well, as you know Girardi was soon after hired by the New York Yankees and led them to a World Series title in just his second season with the team. The Marlins are on their third manager in just the four and a half years since Girardi’s firing, and oh by the way that manager is once again Jack McKeon. Loria made a horrible baseball decision back in 2006 simply because he couldn’t get along with Girardi and I hope he thinks about that every day during the Marlins recent skid toward the bottom of the NL East.
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