On the other hand...

I posted Plaschke and Simers and their negative opinions earlier, so it's only fair that I link to this blog, FireJimTracy.com. In their first post (almost a year to the day ago), the reason for starting the blog was this:

Are you tired of drinking the Kool-Aid for mangerial mediocrity? Does it scare you to pick up the Los Angeles Times, right after Jim Tracy blew yet another game, and read that Ross Newhan is advocating signing Jim Tracy to yet another multi-year contract, subjecting us to another several years of random, seemingly arbitrary mangerial decisions? Since Tracy is going to get his extension (something I’ll discuss in a later post—why Jim Tracy put himself ahead of his team for his own job), I was going to save the debut of this website until April, when we could all sit and watch the 2005 Season unfold, rather than referring to the sins of the past. But when all I see is misinformation, even about a situation as obvious as last night’s, it becomes apparent that though nobody will read it, it is important that somebody says it.

If anyone read Simer's article, the complaints seem to be stemming from his reputation as "The Micro-Manager." And like I said, just because the newspaper writers are backing a manager doesn't make what they say true, as this guy clearly dislikes Plaschke. If you have time to sift through, it's pretty clear that this guy (and most of the commenters) have a LOT of complaints about Tracy. Just a little more to stick in your pipe and smoke about Tracy.