Astros fire skipper Phil Garner
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by Behbigben15
Woah!! Something big was talked about on ESPN today besides Michael Vick pleading guilty. It's a miracle, ESPN took 20 seconds off the Vick discussion to talk about the Houston Astros firing manager Phil Garner, but after about 20-30 seconds were back on the Vick topic. Well, anyway, the Astros needed a change, although Garner did take them to the world series in 2005. The Astros fired GM Tim Purpura as well. Garner, the Astros skipper since midway through the 2004 season, had a career record of 277-252 with the Astros. Garner had a pretty good career as the Astros manager i'd say. But, the Astros needed a change (the Astros are 58-73 this year, 5th place in the NL Central). The blame for the Astros failure this year shouldn't be put on Garner, but it's always the manager that gets the blame for failure.
I wouldn't expect Garner to be on the market for too long, he is just a good manager. I expect him to be hired by a team sometime this offseason, if not, then many teams are making a big mistake.
