Nats GM, speaks on Williams firing: but never said a word about the Papsmear/Harper event...... I as others here think, that incident was the "last straw" of Williams demise..... http://m.mlb.com/video/v519843583/rizzo-on-making-a-managerial-change-for-nationals
once again, honest questions going unanswered, you started this thread, you said a coach is not responsible for the player's lack of production, so why do you think williams was fired?
When you have some idiot choking out the franchise player in your dug out and then you send the same idiot out to the mound afterwards. That pretty much gives a rather larger picture of why he's out of a job.
^^^but don't you understand?...the coach is responsible for telling each of his players that they should not choke each other.
can't agree with this at all, papelbon went after the youngster cause he didn't hustle down the line, its my understanding there was no other issues between the 2 before it, and papelbon took full responsibilty, can't just admit that the coach has to take the hit because he was given the talent and was expected nothing less then a championship, and team did not even sniff PS.... so i will leave it at that
Firstly, there's no defense of somebody assaulting somebody. Not in a dug out, on the street or any place else. Secondly, nobody including myself doubts it had mainly to do with the Nationals non performance this season so you can save your passive aggressive nonsense on the issue. The reason the Papelbon and Harper issue comes to the forefront is because of how Williams handled it at the time which lends itself to his lack of overall competence to run the team.
Assault? I saw boys being boys. Newsflash, that's what testosterone is supposed to look like. This society needs to see more of that.
My passive aggressive nonsense, lol, I guess all the code b posts are for the selected 2 on this board that have different opinions. Are we really in America here? .... and it's also nice to see staff members who claim they have no interest in our posts taking sides in a discussion with the biggest culprit of all. Last thing I will say, and I heard this on the fan, players fight 1 another all the time!!! So it had nothing to do with Williams gettin canned IMO.
With a few exceptions most of these altercations take place away from the viewing public (dugout) This was in full view of everyone (including Williams) and to allow the lunatic (Papsmear) to go back out to the mound was a joke at best.
i will say this tho about that incident, going for the throat, should require a little more of a look into , throwin a punch, pushin someone back i could see, but there's only 1 thing u r going to accomplish, thats takin the breath away, to me thats something steroids do, like clemens makin a move towards piazza with a jagged edged bat in hand that could do serious damage
