In honor of Grady Little...

Yeah you read that right!

I am honoring the man I spent two postings trashing and did a Cold Pizza segment calling for him to be fired.

Why am I honoring him?

Two reasons:

1) If he wasn't so staggeringly moronic managing in the 2003 playoffs... if that was just a normal playoff loss instead of a hair pulling choke job instigated by his inability to manage in the big spot... Theo might not have made the "push all the chips to the center of the table" moves before and during the 2004 season.

Maybe if the Yankees had won in 6, Grady would have stayed as manager, Schilling would have been a Yankee, Foulke would have gone to a place like the Dodgers and Garciaparra would be limping through a new contract and there'd be no 2004 title.

Instead Grady butchered the playoffs in a way that made the most logical people in the world say things like "maybe there is a curse!"

Theo said "F--- This! We have to win NOW!"


2) He seems like a nice guy. Not a good manager, but a nice guy.

So for you Grady...

THE MAGIC NUMBER IS 3!