- After a strong start to their season, the Cleveland Indians collapse in the final months of the season, fire their manager, and then waste no time in hiring two time World Series winning manager Terry Francona.
- After a disaster of a season wherein the lost over 90 games, the Boston Red Sox acknowledge their mistake and fire manager Bobby Valentine.
- The Pirates, after collapsing in the final two months of the season for the second season in a row (and this season's collapse was one of historic proportions) announce that they are going to "study" what went wrong and work to a solution. They also announce that all key members of the NHR (Neal Huntington Regime) will return, and the manager announces that the team is pretty much set at most positions for 2013, including short stop, where it can be demonstrated that Clint Barmes was one of the worst hitters in the National League.
Need I remind anyone that since the Pirates last had a winning season, the Indians have played in the World Series twice and the Red Sox have played in and won the World Series twice?
And before you point it out to me, yes, I know that the Red Sox have all kinds of money and can afford to fire a manager after one year, and yes, we will see just how good a manager Francona will be without the Red Sox' money to provide him players.
Still, some teams take ACTION when they see problems, and some teams just STUDY the problems.
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