I used to think firing was fairly straightforward. The Donald always made it look damn easy. Stare person in face. Tell them they are fired. Fired person then immediately leaves room, grabs bags and leaves. Not that hard a concept, right? Same thing used to apply to sports, for the most part. There were also some general unwritten rules, if not guidelines on how and when. Folks got fired at the end of a season, in the offseason or sometime during the middle of the season when a new guy would have a chance to show some improvement. Ahhh, if only things were so easy today. On Wednesday, Eric Wedge got canned with six games left in the Tribe's dismal season. He and his entire staff were shown the exit, except they have the pleasure(!) and privilege of staying on through the final week of the season. Right, because that makes total sense. Perhaps I'm being an ignoramus (of legal implications and what-not), but wouldn't part of you want to say: "You know what, I'm ju...
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