It's all going according to plan....so far

Remember when I suggested Sandy Alomar Jr. for this coaching staff a few posts ago?

That as purely speculation and wild hope.

But it turns out that there may be some ideas from the Indians to do this.

ESPN's Buster Olney broke the news that the Indians are working on Alomar for their staff, and Hoynes says it might be in a catching instructor/bullpen coach role.

Which would be a slight upgrade to his catching instructor/bullpen catcher role.

However New York has made changes on their staff and could easily promote him to keep him around. However they did fire his Dad.

So it's going to be interesting to see if we can pry him away. A catching instructor/bullpen coach role would be perfect for Sandy. He'll get to potentially work with Carlos Santana.

Now there is a chance the Indians still go with someone like Scott Radinsky or Dave Miller as their bullpen coach, if they hire one or neither as their pitching coach. The first two coaches that Acta is aiming to get: Pitching Coach and Infield Coach (Torey Lovullo would probably do that if he was hired, seem coincidental?)

Manny has been doing some things while the World Series has been going on, but now that it is officially over, he can probably ramp up the search and get into it.

And Hoynes throws in this tidbit at the end of the last link.. The staff may be split 50-50 on in-house hires and outside hires. I don't know how accurate that is, because Acta and crew are going to hire who they want to hire, regardless of where they came from. We have no clue.

Anyway, like I said, this is the point when things will start to accelerate as far as the coaching staff. All of Acta's time will now be devoted to finding people for his staff, so expect a flurry of activity in the next week or so.

Let me end this by saying Grrrr to the Yankees and their World Series win. Why do we hate the Yankees? Because it's fun. I will say this though.

I seriously undercut CC a lot. I said it was going to be a mistake just like it was for many star players (mostly pitchers) who went to New York and their careers took a nose-dive. We all know the CC that gets over-emotional and starts to overthrow and get all uncontrollable. Well we didn't really see that from him this year in the postseason and in a way, I'm proud of him.

I thought it was a decision he was going to regret and I thought it was going to end in disaster. It didn't and in a way, as much as I don't like the Yankees and have a little loss of respect for C after those comments he made a few weeks ago, I'm glad it worked out for him.

But that's enough about that. The real reason I was cheering for the Phillies.

This hilarious shirt.

Philly fans are awesome.