Eagles-Panthers, Mailbag, and Phillies Misery

KapadiaHey, we did an analysis of Don Mattingly managing the bullpen. And guess what? It all fell on deaf ears because Dombrowski wanted his guy. Now, the reports were he was going after Cora, which we talked about in the funeral episode, That was plan A and Mattingly was plan B. And that was it.

KapadiaNow, I know there will be some reporting. I've already seen some that, oh, no, they interviewed other candidates. Come on. That feels like just a complete sham. Unless there's reporting that convinces me otherwise, I will just believe that they were going to go to Cora. And if they couldn't get Cora, they're going to be like, oh, you know what?

KapadiaWell, there's probably going to be a work stoppage. Let's just status quo. You know, we don't want to do anything crazy. Like, give me a break. Like a manager could literally show up on opening day and have no contact with the team prior to that and do a good job. I mean, you really tell me that that's because that's what we're going to hear because Dombrowski talks Thursday, Bunsy.

KapadiaAnd you know that's going to be a big part of the reasoning

Dabbundohere.

DabbundoIt's not that dissimilar from what happened with the United States men's national team where they did this investigation of Greg Berhalter after the World Cup. And then there was an off the field investigation in Berhalter. and then the search firm came back and said, we've made our determination of who we think the best guy is.

DabbundoIt's Greg Berhalter.