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Pirates Coaches Walked Plank Because of Disloyalty to Manager

When the Pirates fired pitching coach Joe Kerrigan and bench coach Gary Varsho on Sunday, there was immediately speculation that personality conflicts with manager John Russell contributed to the decision. Some confirmation of that came on Monday. Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that "several...

Pirates Fire Pitching Coach, Bench Coach

One night after their most dramatic win of the season, the Pittsburgh Pirates have fired pitching coach Joe Kerrigan and bench coach Gary Varsho. There's not much in the way of details at the moment, but both general manager Neal Huntington and manager John Russell stressed that the decision was Russell's to make and that...

Overheard and Understood: Girardi Recalls Humbler Hanley

Hanley Ramirez wasn't always like this. His first manager in the majors said he never had an issue with Ramirez like the one last week when Ramirez didn't hustle after a ball he misplayed and then, after being pulled from the game, insulted his teammates current Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez. That picture didn't jibe...

Tempers Boil Over Again Between Pirates And Brewers

It's hard to think of a more one-sided "rivalry" in sports than the one currently contested between the Pirates and the Brewers. Before the Pirates' 8-5 win last night, the Brewers had taken 17 straight games between the two teams, dating back to May 22 of last season. Somehow (or maybe because of the losing streak, though...

Futilitywatch '09: Pirates Attempting to Stave Off the Inevitable

Futilitywatch '09 is a our semi-regular update on the Pittsburgh Pirates and their march toward their record 17th consecutive losing season.In our last installment two weeks ago, we left the Pittsburgh Pirates for dead as they sat at 12-16, in the midst of what turned out to be an eight-game losing streak that dropped...

joe kerrigan News From the Web

04/19/12 Is Bobby V's act already wearing thin? Source: The Lowell Sun - Lowell MA I never envisioned myself writing this, but all of a sudden Joe Kerrigan is starting to look like a pretty darn good manager.
04/10/12 Should You Fire Your Coach Midseason? Source: High School Sports Zoom Politicians are voted out of office, CEOs are booted out at the behest of nervous shareholders, and the manager of Gadzooks gets demoted after failing to move the SNAPE KILLS TWILIGHT T-shirts or whatever, so it shouldn't surprise us that head coaches of pro sports teams get fired on a regular basis.

Background on joe kerrigan

Joseph Thomas Kerrigan (born November 30, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former relief pitcher, manager and longtime pitching coach in Major League Baseball.

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