Jon Heyman: A’s had to can Geren but not many other firings expected yet in ’11

Jon Heyman: A’s had to can Geren but not many other firings expected yet in ’11
When A’s GM and part owner Billy Beane fired his very close friend Bob Geren as manager on Thursday, Beane was doing what was necessary for the organization. Geren had lost the clubhouse, according to people with A’s ties who spoke anonymously on Thursday. In making the announcement, Beane cited the need to put the focus back on the field, “where it belongs.” The A’s players had become …
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The Outlaw Josey Wales (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Clint Eastwood’s 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales is an exceptional Western, not quite traditional, not quite as boldly revisionist as the other films (like McCabe and Mrs. Miller or The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ) that challenged the genre in the 1970s. Its innovations are mostly quiet ones, shifts in conventional characterization or storytelling, augmented …
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