The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, a team known throughout its existence for its bad play, bad stadium, bad uniforms, and bad fans, has finally moved to undo some of its decade of negativity, firing general manager Chuck LaMar on Thursday. During Chuck's tenure- which started three years before the Rays began play in 1998- the Devil Rays were more than 250 games under .500, and LaMar's run included such memorable moments as Wade Boggs vowing to wear a D-Rays cap into the Hall of Fame, the signing of high school gym teacher Jim Morris to a major-league contract and, uh, that's about it.
As an executive and evaluator of talent, LaMar makes Ed Wade look like Branch Rickey. But even that firing wasn't as long-awaited -and cathartic- as the Twins' recent release of Luis Rivas, which was probably one of the top five moments in Aaron Gleeman's life.
Posted by Stephen Silver at October 6, 2005 02:57 PMYou left out Kazmir for Zambrano. He fleeced the Mets pretty good.
Posted by: Tainted Bill at October 6, 2005 05:11 PM