Madden: Reds’ firing of GM Wayne Krivsky a senseless move by an impatient owner

Daily News’ retaining of Bill Madden a senseless...well, you get the rest.

By contrast, the Krivsky firing in Cincinnati was stunning and totally unjustified, the act of an impatient owner who is obviously clueless when it comes to baseball operations. While we’re happy for Krivsky’s replacement, Walt Jocketty, a solid and accomplished baseball exec who was fired under similarly unjustified circumstances by shortsighted St. Louis Cardinals ownership last year, we have to wonder how Castellini could conclude a change of GMs is suddenly going to make the Reds play better. Conceivably that might happen anyway as the team Krivsky put together appeared (on paper anyway) to be good enough to contend in the weak NL Central.

“I’ll be honest, I was flabbergasted when Bob called me in and said ‘This is going to be a very short conversation,’” Krivsky said by phone from Cincinnati. “I’m proud of the job I did in two years there and I’m forever grateful to Bob for giving me the opportunity. His passion’s great, but you’ve got to have more patience. As somebody pointed out to me, last year four teams that made the playoffs - the Yankees, Phillies, Cubs and Rockies - all started out 9-12 or worse.”