I like Gardy so it's hard for me to point the finger at him completely, and, as good of a Manager as Gardy may be, he can only do so much with the lack of talent dealt to him by GM genius Terry Ryan. With that being said, I was not at all happy with the way the team pretty much mailed it in the last month and a half of the season of last year and 23 games into this season, I'm already disgusted with this organization from top to bottom. If Gardy is going to remain the manager, he must starting holding himself, his staff, and his players accountable for what's happening. Once proclaimed the greatest pitching coach of all time, Rick Anderson has shown he has no idea how to deal with Liriano and the rest of the headcases or talent lackers on this pitching staff. Joe Vavra simply doesn't derserve to be a major league hitting coach and has done nothing since he's been here to prove me wrong. I realize the players have to perform no matter who the pitching and hitting coaches are but, you can't fire the entire team and making a couple coaching changes may spark something in a few guys on this team that are in desparate need of having a fire lit under their asses. As long as Gardy is here, he'll never get rid of his coaching staff of buddies because he'd rather ride this sinking ship to the ocean floor than get some guts and make a change to help save this team, and probably his own job. Time to clean house, from top (Terry Ryan) to bottom (Scott Ulger).
The Twins are now 6-17 and it's not a fluke, it's a small dose of reality. Terry Ryan had plenty opportunities in the offseason to improve this team, especially the pitching staff, and didn't do it. Examples? Erik Bedard, 1 yr $4.5 mil. (Same as Matt Capps is being paid this year) would've instantly become our best starter, but wasn't on Terry Ryan's radar. Chris Capuano, who we made a feeble effort (low balled him so he signed elsewhere) is 3-0 with an era that our current pitchers can only dream about. Bartolo Colon, Edwin Jackson, Roy Oswalt, etc. In the interest of not making this 5 pages long, I'll skip others and won't even address our lack of bullpen additions but if anyone wants to throw out a challenge I'd be more than happy to tell you how Terry Ryan failed miserably in all areas. But, bottom line, Terry Ryan is the puppet of the Pohlad family who only care about personal financial gain and don't care if the Twins win 50 games or 100 as long as they can keep butts in seats enough to keep making as much money as possible.
