A shakeup in the candidates

Yesterday I posted about how Honest Wagner blogger Bones had jokingly tossed his name into the ring to manage the Pirates. He unveils his playbook today. He was already ahead of Tekulve and Mackanin, now I'm pretty sure the new playbook vaults him over Sveum, Wehner (assuming that if Sveum gets a look than the Rock will as well), Leyland, and probably evenHowe in my book. That puts the current standings at

1. Macha
2. Tracy
3. Bones

Since the only two ahead of him are still employed by other teams and may not even become available this offseason, I hearby declare Bones the front runner to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2006 on the basis of the "Reverse Wiggy Wheel."

Page 1 is the new defensive play "the reverse Wiggy wheel". In this one, Wiggy plays first. Upon contact, the whole infield sprints into clockwise rotation. P covers 3B, 3B covers SS, SS covers 2B, 2B covers 1B. This frees Wiggy up for a full-speed head-on collision with the unsuspecting baserunner.