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Five reasons Bob Melvin is better than Bob Geren

ComcastSportsNet BayArea justed posted Grant's latest opus in which he gives five reasons Bob Melvin is a superior manager to Bob Geren -- there are a million reasons, really. I won't give away Grant's reasons but it's clear the A's play better under Melvin than Geren, it's so obvious you [...]

By | June 22nd, 2011|9 Comments

Bob Melvin ejected

Bob Melvin just got ejected from the A's-Royals game. Why is this significant? It shows he's active and alive. He argued with three umps today. Bob Geren, the former manager, got ejected from exactly one game before he got dumped. So there are obvious differences. FYI: Matsui just hit a [...]

By | June 16th, 2011|4 Comments

Beane implicated in Geren failure

Here at last is the column I wrote yesterday on Billy Beane firing Bob Geren. Sometimes there are glitches on the web and I apologize for posting this in a tardy manner. The gist of my column is this: Geren was a dreadful manager, but Beane hired him, stuck with [...]

By | June 10th, 2011|9 Comments

Bob Geren scene I remember

This is a quickie before Billy Beane's conference call. Last week after the A's lost their tenth in a row to the Yankees, I went in search of Billy Beane. He was sitting in Bob Geren's office. I asked him about how the A's teach their catchers to handle runners [...]

By | June 9th, 2011|7 Comments

Bob Geren fired

The A's just fired Bob Geren and replaced him on an interim basis with Bob Melvin. They are in Chicago and Beane will hold a conference call at 11 a.m. This firing was long overdue. They never should have hired him -- clueless with players and media. Sure, the A's [...]

By | June 9th, 2011|5 Comments

Strife on A’s

Brian Fuentes ripped Bob Geren. You don't have to  take that seriously because Fuentes wasn't pitching well and you could write him off as disgruntled. Now Huston Street has gotten into the act. He isn't even on the A's and he said on the record he can't stand Geren. He [...]

By | May 25th, 2011|13 Comments

Time for Bob Geren to prove something

I'm in the press box at the Coliseum for the A's home opener, season opener vs. Seattle. This is a nice place to be and that brings me to A's manager Bob Geren. He's gotten a free pass up to now, a pass because the A's weren't very good and [...]

By | April 1st, 2011|2 Comments