Sports Justice: Congratulations to Gerry Hunsicker and the amazing Tampa Bay Rays

Justice? Hunsickness? A stack of Bibles?.....What am I stuck inside of Reinhard Bonnke’s tent?

Drayton McLane’s most serious mistake as an owner was showing Gerry Hunsicker the door after the 2004 season. I still don’t know whether his departure was an outright firing or if it was as mutual as they tried to make it appear.

I believe McLane was jealous of Hunsicker and that he couldn’t wait for him to leave. I also believe McLane would emphatically deny this to be true.

Based on conversations with array of people that worked around both men, they’d gotten to the point where neither could even stand being in the same room with the other. Neither man covered himself in glory as the relationship came undone in the final months of the 2004 season.

I’ve heard that McLane believed every negative article about him came from Hunsicker. This wasn’t true. I’ll put my hand on a stack of Bibles about that point. McLane apparently stewed about articles that painted a picture of a front office in which competent baseball men were constantly trying to overcome incompetent ownership. I know this to be true because I wrote some of those articles.