Originally Posted by DMBZeppelin
Listen I know the main reason you'll always back up Ozzie is because of he made fun of the writer you hate most. Not the point though, the team went from 90 (and under achieved) in 2006 to one of the worst records in 2007. Not to mention most of the players are sick of him in general. Who wants to work for an @$$hole? Sounds great for trying to get FA's "Well if we don't win, you get a full year of Ozzie."
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No, the reason I'll always back Ozzie is that shiny hunk of metal for which you've been waiting for nearly a century. The 2006 team did not underachieve, it simply had no bridge to Bobby Jenks, which was why it lost so many games in the late innings. Kenny Williams went out and tried to fix that over the winter, but wound up missing on a bunch of arms filled with potential with little results to that point, and, when none of those arms reached their potential, giving the 2007 team the same problem, only now the entire offense decided to go into the tank. When given the components necessary to win, Ozzie has shown he can and will win. You can't expect any manager to win with no bullpen and no offense though, and that's basically what happened to Ozzie this year.
