Joe Girardi rips into Joel Sherman

Can we set up a YF-BYH point-counterpoint on this?

 

That's a pretty good theory. Some rules are the same on and off the field. Don't show someone up.

Or Girardi might have already specified it was a question he wouldn't answer.

 

It's an OK theory, except Girardi did answer the question, earlier in his news conference, then again for Sherman. (CC Sabathia is fine, if you're wondering.) What set Girardi off was that he thought, by Sherman asking a question that had already been asked earlier, he was insinuating Girardi was lying. That almost certainly was not the case as Sherman preceded his question with, "You may have already been asked this, but ..."

I think he should have addressed the blowup, in some way, though. Everyone else, even your own publication, is writing about it. And you have first-hand knowledge of what happened.

 

After 16 years I would think that Sherman would know what questions were going to set Girardi off and at same time Girardi would realize the purpose of question.

Let's say that they had an off the record conversation prior where Girardi was candid with Sherman and said that CC had tender shoulder.

 

That seems less likely than Girardi flipping out from stress after a crucial loss hinged on a shitty call.

 

In the end Sherman deserves credit for asking the question and doing his job. It has to get tougher when you have had a working relationship with someone for 16 years.

 

Maybe a little of both. Unless he was physically absent, it's also not very likely that Sherman missed the first version of question entirely.

 

Right? Where the fuck is BYH on this?

I mean, he came back? How is he resisting posting on this thread?

 

BYH is really Joel Sherman

 

That explains it!

 

But doesn't that cost you and your employer hits? This type of story, told by Sherman, would get linked all over.