Pick a Side: Overrated Manager or Thieving Weasel Agent

If they're talking, chances are they're lying. On Thursday, Jim Leyland decided he had no choice but to “try to get Magglio Ordonez away from it (the lineup), whether it be a few days or whatever.” Magglio’s agent, our dear friend Scott Boras, was not happy. On Friday, the same day Leyland was awarded a two-year contract extension through 2011, he insisted that, although Magglio would be out of the lineup indefinitely, it was not a “benching.” Eh?  Where’s he going to sit then? Despite the “clarification” by Old Smokey, Scott Boras is still not happy. “I admit to you that Magglio had a rough April (.240) batting average,” Boras said. “But if you want to talk about why his production is down in 2009, it’s about...