Everybody has an opinion on the Phillies managerial search. Some of those opinions are better than others.

I personally believe that this is a solid take from Nails:

Lenny, in part:

“I don’t believe Gabe hurt or helped that much. If you have a ball club short on talent, as this year’s Phillies did, then over time that will be exposed, as they simply couldn’t match up day-in and day-out over a 162 game schedule. The problem for the Phillies, despite all that money they spent – and they spent a truckload – the pitching, the pitching failed miserably. Where Kapler fell short was an inability to light a fire under any of these players asses – the lack of hustle, the lack of playing situation baseball, that ultimately falls on the manager. Bryce Harper and Carlos Santana aside, this might have been the laziest club.. It was almost like watching a Xanax.

Hard to argue with any of that. The pitching was bad and the motivation never really seemed to be there.

Lenny then went on to pitch the Phillies as to why he should become the next manager:

What’s crazy is that it seems players and managers almost make it seem okay that a player is average, which is shit. My whole life, my biggest fear in life was being average. The bottom line is that if you want to win, hire me. But why in the fuck wouldn’t they want to hire me? The fans would come out to the park in droves. There would actually be players playing the game right. And the team’s motto would be, when we hit the road, we’re gonna go to their house, take their money, and fuck their women, and make them like it.

I see no lies in what Lenny is saying. Let’s add him to the shortlist. Joe Girardi, Joe Maddon, Buck Showalter, Lenny Dykstra. Let’s get these interviews rolling.