The strangest thing just happened to me.
A few minutes ago, I received a call from Nationals’ team President Stan Kasten. He said that Mike Rizzo was fired by the Lerner family, after being found walking aimlessly along the Beltway, wearing nothing but a Mets’ cap.
Kasten told me Rizzo could have survived the “naked” part, but wearing the oppositions’ colors was a deal breaker.
They want me to take over on a temporary basis until Jim Bowden’s contract runs out with Sirius XM. I can make any deals I want until then—probably till the middle of January—and I can add no more than $10 million to last year’s $60-million payroll.
In an email, he gave me the private phone numbers of baseball’s other 29 general managers, as well as the nam ...
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How I Would Improve the Washington Nationals As Their General Manager
Posted: 28th November 2009 by Farid Rushdi in MLBComments Off on How I Would Improve the Washington Nationals As Their General Manager