Marlins make offer to McKeon to come back as interim manager...

[madinmaryland]

Jack McKeon is the choice to be the Marlins' interim manager.

An announcement is expected early Monday. McKeon, 80, is expected to accept an offer to manage the team through the end of the year and will be the oldest manager in the majors.

After the season, the top candidates are expected to be White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and possibly Bobby Valentine, a former Mets and Rangers skipper and current ESPN analyst.

This will be McKeon's second time taking over the the Marlins in the middle of a season. He was famously brought on in June 2003, taking the team from 16-22 all the way to an improbable World Series title. More recently, he had been working as a consultant with the team. Guillen was a third-base coach for McKeon's 2003 Marlins.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/baseball/mlb/06/19/florida.marlins.jack.mckeon/index.html#ixzz1Pp6DvaM6

:wow:

[Yavin4]

1. Florida Has Some Serious Managerial Issues

Now, they're going to bring back an 80 year old man to manage the club? Are they serious?

[brendan120678]

2. I'd say their issues are usually more ownership-related,

and not managerial.

But then again, with the slump they are currently in, who knows.

[TSIAS]

3. Loria

That's why owner Jeffrey Loria has been deemed "the Steinbrenner" of the south (without all the championships and winning seasons).

[madinmaryland]

4. Haven't the Marlins won two World Series. Not bad considering it took the SF Giants 56 years

to win a World Series for their city.

[TSIAS]

7. Yeah

But Loria only was there for one of them. It's always nice to think back to the 1997 and 2003 playoffs, when Florida dispatched the Giants to advance to the NLCS.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Fish announce permanent manager for 2012

From the Jack Rabbit News Service
Dated Monday, June 20

Marlins Announce Permanent Manager for 2012
By Jack Rabbit

Casey Stengel will take over as manager of the Florida Marlins for the 2012 season, it was announced today by owner Jeff Loria.

Stengel, who will be 121 years old in July, died in 1975 after an illustrious managerial career with the Dodgers, Braves, Yankees and Mets. His greatest successes where as manager of the Yankees (1949-1960), when he won ten American League pennants and seven world championships.

Loria said that negotiation with Stengel were conducted through his agent, Sarah Palin, who claims that having been governor of Alaska and a candidate for Vice President make her as qualified as any attorney to negotiate a contract, and psychic medium Oda Mae Brown of New York City.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Ms. Palin and Ms. Brown said that Stengel will be available for comment sometime before the end of the season.

[madinmaryland]

6. Stengel hated the DH, also. Probably what led to his death.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. You know that El Sup will blame it on the fact that Casey was 85 or something like that

. . . but we know what it really was.

[hughee99]

9. "Hey, you kids get off my grass!"

Actually, I just saw an interview with him. For 80, he looked pretty good.