Bud Black new manager

[OBBoltsFan]

Just reported on 1090; he was my second choice behind Baker, butmy first choice at first.

I'm definitely satisifed with today's news.

[padrefanforever]

Padres have a new skipper........Bud Black

[DirtyKash]

Baker would have focked up Peavy's career, this is a good choice.

[love_that_reefer]

Congrats on Black. I would have wanted the Giants to hire him over Bochy but oh well.

[OBBoltsFan]

I already posted this.

[OBBoltsFan]

Baker would have focked up Peavy's career, this is a good choice.

Iwanted Baker simply because perhaps he was due for a championship, but Black certainly seemed the most ambitous of all the cnadidates, so I am happier with him now that I think about it.

[padrefanforever]

Yeah they posted at the same time...........but since I don't have the power to remove it.........you'll just have to look at it

[love_that_reefer]

Plus Pads spelled it right.

[realmofotalk]

There is a weird cycle going on with the Dodgers hiring ex-Giant staff members, and the Giants hiring ex-Padre coaches, and the Padres acquiring players, coaches, and front office members formerly associated with Los Angeles teams.

[padrefanforever]

ty.... I was going to point that out and thought it in bad taste........lol yah right

[OBBoltsFan]

Plus Pads spelled it right.

It's funny how when you have a bad day, everything seems to go bad, even things as completely, totally insignificant as this.

[HollywoodLeo]

merged the two threads.

I heard the news right as I was leaving for the movies.

[HollywoodLeo]

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/9788363

Black has temperament, tools for winning debut with Padres

Dusty Baker never made sense for the San Diego Padres. Bud Black does.

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But here's the reason Black, and not Baker, is a better fit for the Padres: If San Diego opted for Baker, it would have simply been a case of the Padres chasing their tails, because he brings the same managerial style as Bruce Bochy.
Each man manages a clubhouse extremely well. Their strength is in how much the players like playing for him. Neither man is particularly known as a tactical genius.
If the Padres had hired Baker, the obvious question would have been: Why did they allow Bochy to walk in the first place? The man was in the organization for 24 years, guided the Padres to back-to-back division titles and knows every dark corner of the NL West. As does Baker, the former San Francisco skipper -- which is where Bochy landed last month.
In Black, 49, the Padres bring aboard an intelligent and savvy baseball man with a future as wide open as Montana. Black could have had the Cleveland managerial job before Eric Wedge; he was invited to interview in Boston a few years ago but backed out for personal reasons; he interviewed in both Oakland and San Francisco this fall; and he's one of the most respected pitching coaches in the game.

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