I don’t want to see complaints about Girardi. Ever. Again. Until April.
Check this out.
On his way home from the World Series, Girardi stopped to help the victim of a car accident–and could have very well risked his life doing so.
It’s one thing to be a good manager. There are many good managers in baseball and good coaches in other sports.
It is entirely another thing to be a good man.
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Yogi Berra, besides having more rings than God, was at Normandy. He is a hero in every sense of the word. But he has never been above criticism.
Girardi has fewer rings, and for various reasons, has less heroism points to his credit, but he, like Yogi, is a good man, but he, like Yogi, is not above criticism.
I have defended Girardi fervently throughout this year and last, and give him every benefit of the doubt. But he has done and will do things worth questioning, and deserves to be criticized when he does so.
However, criticizing him for his baseball judgement is different from judging his honesty, his integrity, his humanity. But those things ought to have been above criticism long before he played the good Samaritan yesterday.
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Rebecca G. Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Right–which is more or less the point I’m trying to make.
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