Daily News | Like Gabe Kapler, firing Joe Girardi won’t help the Phillies
Every columnist has a little grab bag of gimmicks that he or she can pencil in depending on the time of year. Some use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to write about things to be thankful for. Others mark New Year’s Day with a column about resolutions. Me? I wait for Memorial Day, when everybody wants to fire the Phillies manager, and I write that they shouldn’t.
First, though, it’s important to make sure we’re all on the same page about the nature of the holes. A lot of people are starting to point fingers at a lineup whose run production has far underperformed its preseason hype. Among those people are the man who assembled that lineup. It’s sad. It really is. An unreliable bullpen is a storm cloud that hovers over every move that a team makes. You heard it in Bryce Harper’s voice on Tuesday after the one-run lead he gave the Phillies in the top of the ninth lasted exactly four batters.
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