Like everything else related to the Washington Nationals' front office, the situation with manager Manny Acta has been horribly mishandled.
CNNSI and other sources are reporting that Acta will be fired, "perhaps as early as Monday." Everyone who has ever been asked has had only positive things to say about Acta. All the compliments are probably code for "he's not the reason the guy next to me would struggle to crack the lineup of the Nashville Sounds."
Bill Parcells said he wanted to buy the groceries if he was to do the cooking. If we apply that analogy to the Nats' horrific front office management, Acta has been asked to cook five-star meals using only Spam, Velveeta, sweet gherkins and Triscuits.
At least Acta will be able to spend Fathers' Day with his two daughters, albeit unemployed.
This should come as no surprise as GM Mike Rizzo gave Acta the dreaded "vote of confidence" back in late April. The team, of course, has performed even more poorly since then. Badly enough, in fact, that players have vocalized support for Acta even without prompting.
The Nats are 16-43 this season under Acta and went 148-234 under his direction. Acta is the second manager in team history after Frank Robinson.
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"Acta has been asked to cook five-star meals using only Spam, Velveeta, sweet gherkins and Triscuits."
I'm pretty sure that was the premise of an episode of Top Chef.
Disappointing given what he had been given by management. My impression was that the fan base was kind of impartial as well.
Maybe the Braves will make some changes this year and try to snag him. It's not like we're going anywhere but down. Blown out by Baltimore??? Come on...
@Michaelangelo:
At least I gave him salty and sweet and creamy and crunchy. I assume he would have made a light foam with the Spam jelly, sitting delicately lopsided on circular Velveeta-and-gherkin-relish-filled Spam disks pan-fried so as to curl up into little corpuscles while still resting nicely on the crunchy Triscuit base.
Blend the velveeta, gherkins, and spam into a ball shape. Bread with Triscuts. Deep fry it. Yum...
That actually sounds potentially tasty. Like a cheesy falafel.
Well I'm a great chef/baseball manager...
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