Memorial Day weekend is a benchmark for Major League Baseball.
It’s dump the Dodgers, Braves and Rays are awesome and the Royals and A’s fucking suck.
This is also when you start to see managers get canned.
It obviously can happen before this.
Cal Ripken Sr. got fired after the 1988 Orioles started 0-6.
Another early firing was Yogi Berra on the 1985 Yankees.
The Yankees started off 6-10 and Yogi was gone.
He was so pissed, he refused to come back to Yankee Stadium for 15 years.
In 1991, eight managers got fired during the season.
In 2021, not a single one did.
But the Blue Jays and Phillies both made mid-season managerial changes and both teams make the playoffs.
Could that lead to a change to more managers getting the boot this year?
Here are the managers I think are most likely to get fired.
He’s in some real big trouble.
That’s a terrifying stretch.
Everything is going against Schneider.
They have high expectations and play in the toughest division in baseball (all of sports?).
He’s the one guy on this list that could be fired tomorrow and it shouldn’t shock anyone.
I just don’t see Buck Showalter, Bob Melvin or Terry Francona get canned during the season.
They’ve earned too much respect from their long careers.
Bell is in a different spot.
The Reds were supposed to be bad.
They kinda are at 22-29.
I just think they could get even worse pretty quickly.
The upcoming schedule does them few favors.
His contract is up at the end of the season.
Would it shock anyone if the horseshit Reds ownership tries to use him as a scapegoat?
That all seemed to change when they stunningly fired Mike Shildt after the 2021 season.
It’s bee a wild shitshow this year in St. Louis.
They started 10-24 and go back and forth each week if they want Willson Contreras to catch.
They have been playing better of late but still sit at 23-30.
They’ve lost 3 of the last 5…
Rob Thomson, Philadelphia Phillies
Predicted Date He Gets Fired: August 14th
Thomson can save himself pretty easily.
He also did bring his team to the World Series last year so he’ll manage the All-Star Game.
They could each be an 8 game losing streak from carrying out their belongings in a cardboard box.
