Jeff Sullivan has a story up talking about the Don Wakamatsu firing, and in discussing it, has a good discussion about what a major league manager's job really is:
We talk a lot about why it is Ron Washington is still here, when he makes so many baffling decisions during a game, when it seems to us like he's one of the weaker in-game managers that is out there.
But the reality is that you can use the iceberg analogy with a major league manager...the in-game decision making is the tip, the part that the idiots sitting in our offices in Portland or Houston or Addison or wherever can see. Jeff's point is that what matters a whole lot more in evaluating a manager is his ability to, well, manage people. His ability to deal with the egos and personalities of a bunch of young males, the majority of whom make more money than he does, and many of whom have been treated as special and better than everyone else for much of their lives.
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