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Harmony first in the Padres front office
Tim Sullivan has a great article about Bud Black's relationship with new Padres GM, Josh Byrnes. I learned many interesting things from this article, including the fact that Josh Byrnes and Bud Black used to work together, scouting prospects in Cleveland. I don't know why, but this gives me warm...
Bud Black is considering a jump to Anaheim's front office or The birth of an offseason non-story
Here's something weird to me. You're a beat writer. You're bored. You're looking to get more hits to your website from people other than the people who normally read you. So you make up a rumor. Completely unfounded. Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, even to somebody who doesn't follow the...
RUMOR: The Angels are interested in Bud Black... AS THEIR GM!
Being a beat reporter is a tough gig. If nothing's happening, you have to kinda make stuff up. Other times you have to pull stuff out of your ass. I as a blogger have a duty to play along with the system. It's the mechanism. Beat reporters make up completely unfounded rumors that don't exactly make...
Managers of the Year: Twins' Gardenhire, Padres' Black Take Home Hardware
Ron Gardenhire and Bud Black have been named the AL and NL Managers of the Year (respectively) for 2010. Gardenhire and Black each garnered 16 first-place votes; Gardenhire beat out Ron Washington, Joe Maddon, and Cito Gaston, while Black edged out Dusty Baker, Bruce Bochy, Bobby Cox, and Charlie...
Padres to offer Bud Black contract extension through 2013
Your beat reporter and mine, Corey Brock reports that the Padres will be offering Buddy a contract extension. I'll tell you a story about the time jbox and I met Bud Black at Spring Training. I was prepared to not be impressed by the guy, but I'll tell you what. I was impressed. Very even keeled....
NL West Report: Padres Offer Bud Black Three Year Extension
Bud Black is in his fourth season as a manager in Major League Baseball. He took over a team in 2007 that had won back-to-back NL West titles under Bruce Bochy, and they looked primed for another in Black's first year, as San Diego was first in the division as late as September 4. But the Padres...
Padres hire Bob Melvin, continue tradition of redundancy
I'm sure there's a good reason why the Padres have decided to hire Bob Melvin without first firing our current manager, but it escapes me a little bit. I would have thought the days of hiring redundant positions were gone with the new ownership coming through, but I would have thought wrong. Does...
Bud Black is optimistic that Hoffman will return to the Padres
I'm pessimistic that the Padres Front Office is ever even going to call Hoffman. Can Bud Black's intuition be trusted? Black: Hoffman could return to SD "Maybe I'm too much of an optimist. I think he can come back. I don't think that bridge has been knocked down," Black said Meanwhile it's...
Padres let Bud Black keep his job (or There's a witch in our midst)
There's some sort of witchcraft going on. As terrible as this team was, the Padres managed to place the blame on Craig Colbert, the one guy who appeared emotionally involved this season. What? From Padres.com: Black has guided the Padres to a 152-173 record during his two seasons as manager,...
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