Come on. Come on. This is ridiculous. You're looking for Joe Girardi without him being Joe Girardi. Just hire the real deal. Stop interviewing everybody but the bat boy and waiting to see how the media reacts.
Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman are so dumb, they'd reject Miller Huggins, Joe McCarthy and Casey Stengel. Those are the first three Yankee managers elected to the Hall of Fame. George Steinbrenner hired the fourth, Joe Torre, but George's son Hal along with Cashman forced Torre out and then hired Girardi ten years ago and recently refused to sign Girardi to a new contract.
If either young Yankee hot shot Aaron Judge or Gary Sanchez had any balls they would have stuck up for Girardi long before Hal Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman had a chance to do their dirty deed. But too many young players are too corporate and don't even realize just how much a guy like Girardi protected them. Even now it might not be too late but if one, or preferably both, went quietly to Steinbrenner and made a plea for the Yankees to hire Joe Girardi as their new manager, it might work.
Does bringing back an exiled Yankee manager sound a bit familiar. On Yankees Old Timers Day in 1978 fired manager Billy Martin was shockingly introduced from the dugout as the new Yankee manager for 1980. George was nuts but had a flair for entertainment, like P.T. Barnum.
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