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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Ripken Says His Desire to Manage Baseball Is Growing

Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. says his interest in becoming a manager is growing nine seasons after retirement.

Ripken, a two-time Most Valuable Player who played in a record 2,632 straight Major League Baseball games, said in 2007 that he would consider returning to the sport as a manager or coach after his teenage children were grown. His daughter, Rachel, is now in college and his son, Ryan, is a sophomore in high school.

“I valued that time frame and I wanted to be there, and I’m starting to think about it a little more now,” Ripken said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Surveillance.” “When my boy goes off to college, if there’s a time to come back to the game, maybe that’s the time.”

Trembley! You have roughly 3 years at most, then you are ....ah crap, I already used the “D word” this week….

(grabs thesaurus)

You are RUUUUUUUUUUUUUIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEEED!

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   1. Gamingboy Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:02 PM (#3475806)
Of course, we have no idea if Ripken would even be a good manager, although I'm sure he'd be fine with teaching the fundamentals and such. And we'd get hilarious scenes going in our head like this:

"Skip, I think I tore a ligament in my leg."
"Go out and play a few innings, we'll see how it feels later on."
   2. Rich Rifkin Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:06 PM (#3475813)
Trivia: Who is the only player to be inducted into the HOF (as a player) who later went on to win the Manager of the Year Award (in the majors)?
   3. Gamingboy Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:08 PM (#3475815)
Trivia: Who is the only player to be inducted into the HOF (as a player) who later went on to win the Manager of the Year Award (in the majors)?


Oh, this is a good one. Was it Frank Robinson? I think it would be Frank Robinson.
   4. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:09 PM (#3475818)
My WAG is Frank Robinson or Pete Rose.
   5. Barnaby Jones Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:12 PM (#3475822)
Definitely Rose.
   6. Rich Rifkin Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:13 PM (#3475823)
I don't know the answer to this one: Which HOFer, inducted as a player, has the most wins as a major league manager? (Is it him?)

EDIT: I now know the answer. It's this dude. One note about his career as a manager: Every season he managed, he was also a player. I would guess no one in any sport was ever a player/manager as long as he was. It also explains his nickname.
   7. Rich Rifkin Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:16 PM (#3475826)
#3 is correct.
   8. gef the talking mongoose Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:28 PM (#3475838)
Wasn't Ted Williams manager of the year circa 1969?

Edit: Make it 1970.

I must be missing something subtle in the wording of Rich's question, because this one was a no-brainer for me ...
   9. Guapo Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:31 PM (#3475843)
Rifkin, isn't Fred Clarke the answer to your second question?
   10. Dag Nabbit and his imaginary friends Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:35 PM (#3475846)
I don't know the answer to this one: Which HOFer, inducted as a player, has the most wins as a major league manager? (Is it him?)

No way. Off the top of my head, there's Cap Anson (formerly the all-time win leader among ALL managers, not just HoF players who managed), Fred Clarke, Frank Chance, Joe Cronin, and Bill Terry. My guess would be Anson.

(checks).

Eh, it's Clarke. (may as well give the answer - I did already list him as a guess). Anson is second. Then Cronin. Then Jennnigs, Boudreau, Frisch, Frank Robinson, Schoendienst, Chance, Terry, Hornsby, Speaker, Duffy, Walter Johnson, Ewing - and then Yogi Berra, just five wins ahead of Ty Cobb.
   11. SoSH U at work Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:37 PM (#3475850)
My WAG is Frank Robinson or Pete Rose.

Definitely Rose.


I was damned positive it wasn't Pete.
   12. Ron Johnson Posted: March 09, 2010 at 06:39 PM (#3475855)
#1 "innings"?

Don't you mean weeks?
   13. Steve Phillips' Hot Cougar (DrStankus) Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:10 PM (#3475884)
If your desire to manage grows for over four hours, seek medical help
   14. Jerk Store Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:20 PM (#3475894)
Why the need for the modifier of baseball in that headline? Was there fear that without it readers would think Ripken wants to actually manage his time more responsibly or possibly manage a Denny's?
   15. DL from MN Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:30 PM (#3475906)
Being the son of a pretty good manager, my guess is Cal Jr. would be a pretty good major league manager.
   16. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:42 PM (#3475919)
Anson and Clarke were outstanding players, but some of those others, like Chance, Schoendienst, and Boudreau, got a significant HOF boost from being successful managers. Neither Chance nor Schoendienst is a HOM player, for instance.
   17. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:42 PM (#3475920)
Being the son of a pretty good manager, my guess is Cal Jr. would be a pretty good major league manager.

This kind of attitude is how we get stuck with the Joe Bucks of the world.
   18. OsunaSakata Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:54 PM (#3475938)
Being the son of a pretty good manager, my guess is Cal Jr. would be a pretty good major league manager.


A .402 winning percentage makes for a pretty good manager?

The top eight in games managed without a playoff appearance:
1. Jimmy Dykes 2962
2. Clark Griffith 2918
3. Ned Hanlon 2530
4. Frank Robinson 2203
5. Harry Wright 2145
6. Paul Richards 1837
7. Jimmy McAleer 1658
8. Patsy Donovan 1597
Only Wright never managed in Baltimore or Washington.
   19. willcarrollsux Posted: March 09, 2010 at 07:55 PM (#3475939)
Hopefully he'll be better with putting the team above the selfish goals of his players than his own managers were.
   20. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:22 PM (#3475963)
Ripken for commish.
   21. Gaelan Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:34 PM (#3475978)
Jon Miller tells a good story about playing strat-o-matic with Cal Ripken on an airplane and how Ripken learned about managing platoons from that game.
   22. Gaelan Posted: March 09, 2010 at 08:50 PM (#3475987)
You can find it here, on the left.
   23. jwb Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:18 PM (#3476009)
Only Wright never managed in Baltimore or Washington.
To be fair to Harry Wright, he won six championships. There just wasn't another league champion for his team to play in those years.
   24. chemdoc Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:45 PM (#3476029)
Should Ripken's desire last for more than four hours, he should seek immediate medical attention.
   25. Gamingboy Posted: March 09, 2010 at 09:51 PM (#3476035)
#1 "innings"?

Don't you mean weeks?


Cal has softened up in his old age.
   26. Rich Rifkin Posted: March 09, 2010 at 10:53 PM (#3476080)
Rifkin, isn't Fred Clarke the answer to your second question?

I stand corrected.
   27. Karl from NY Posted: March 09, 2010 at 11:08 PM (#3476094)
Why the need for the modifier of baseball in that headline?


In our age of automated information snarfing, headlines appear without context everywhere. And this article is in BusinessWeek and provided by Bloomberg, so its audience is already focused on an industry other than sports, where "manage" has a distinctly different meaning. Seems reasonable to me.
   28. Rich Rifkin Posted: March 09, 2010 at 11:35 PM (#3476101)
Ripken Says His Desire to Ménage Baseball Is Growing

"... its audience is already focused on an industry other than sports, where "ménage" has a distinctly different meaning. Seems reasonable to me."

Also, Bloomberg wanted to distinguish it from yesterday's headline:

Billy Ripken Says His Desire to Ménage à Trois Is Growing
   29. rlc Posted: March 10, 2010 at 12:40 AM (#3476142)
Why the need for the modifier of baseball in that headline?

There are 27 people with manager in their title at the Ripken Baseball Group; none of them are named Ripken.

If Cal wants to manage a team, he should start with the IronBirds, GreenJackets or Stone Crabs and dress in a suit and straw boater.
   30. CW hits the pinata for the candy Posted: March 10, 2010 at 01:16 AM (#3476163)
A .402 winning percentage makes for a pretty good manager?


Well that all depends on who he managed, dunnit? Do the '87 Orioles look like a good team to you?
   31. Mike Emeigh Posted: March 10, 2010 at 02:20 AM (#3476196)
Wasn't Ted Williams manager of the year circa 1969?


Technically, no. At that time the BBWAA didn't have a manager of the year award (they didn't until 1983), and the Sporting News award was for the Major League manager of the year, which went to Gil Hodges (natch). Williams did win the AP AL Manager of the Year award in 1969, but that wasn't an "official" award. If we include that AP award, Williams and Bob Lemon (who won the AL award in 1978, two years after his HoF induction) also are answers to Rich's question.

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