Comments on: Top 10 Reasons Cecil Cooper Got Fired by the Astros http://thedugoutdoctors.com/2009/09/top-10-reasons-cecil-cooper-got-fired-by-the-astros/ Baseball News, Rumors, Blogs, and Videos Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James http://thedugoutdoctors.com/2009/09/top-10-reasons-cecil-cooper-got-fired-by-the-astros/comment-page-1/#comment-127 James Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:30:22 +0000 http://thedugoutdoctors.com/?p=370#comment-127 I think the only one of these ten that can be attributed to Cooper is #3, just in how he handled those two, jerking them around from the bullpen to the rotation so many times. It's very true he mishandled the entire pitching staff. But this is more like an assembly of reasons why the Astros were a wreck this season, and if the extension of that is firing Cecil Cooper, okay. Cooper was guilty of Starting Quarterback Syndrome (SQS), in which you play the guys who make the most money, not the guys more deserving of taking the field. ("Who's the Starting QB? Player X, because he makes $10 million, and Player Y is playing for league minimum.") But these ten are not the reasons that Cooper was fired. If the post was sarcastic, then I'll go ahead and withdraw, and smile. I think the only one of these ten that can be attributed to Cooper is #3, just in how he handled those two, jerking them around from the bullpen to the rotation so many times. It’s very true he mishandled the entire pitching staff.

But this is more like an assembly of reasons why the Astros were a wreck this season, and if the extension of that is firing Cecil Cooper, okay. Cooper was guilty of Starting Quarterback Syndrome (SQS), in which you play the guys who make the most money, not the guys more deserving of taking the field. (“Who’s the Starting QB? Player X, because he makes $10 million, and Player Y is playing for league minimum.”) But these ten are not the reasons that Cooper was fired.

If the post was sarcastic, then I’ll go ahead and withdraw, and smile.

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