John Marossi

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I drove.

Well, we got another manager fired.

Not we didn't do it.

Rob Thompson rinsed by the Philadelphia Phillies today.

We'll be joined in a few minutes by John Marossi of the MLB Network to talk about that.

That's two managers in, what, three days?

Two managers in four days.

um this is kind of an interesting story uh rob thompson will be replaced by don mattingly donny baseball on an interim basis don's son preston is the general manager of the phillies that's kind of kind of interesting um david dombrowski will i would imagine have the final say in the hiring of the manager but um

That in and of itself is not the most interesting part of the announcement.

According to Bob Nightingale, and it's a report that has been confirmed by other sources, David Dombrowski tried to hire Alex Cora, who was fired a couple of days ago as Red Sox manager.

And Alex Cora said, nah, I think I'll take my $13 million and go down to Puerto Rico, spend some time with my family.

Essentially what he was saying is,

Not right now.

I mean, get back to me in November maybe, but not right now.

And, you know, Kevin, this is something we talked about, and we'll talk about Trey Savage.

We'll get around to it.

But this is clearly the breaking news today.