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Bob Klapisch gets three more years in which to bury Joe Girardi

Texas Rangers v New York Yankees, Game 3

NEW YORK - OCTOBER 18: Manager Joe Girardi of the New York Yankees looks on from the dugout during pregame festivities against the Texas Rangers in Game Three of the ALCS during the 2010 MLB Playoffs at Yankee Stadium on October 18, 2010 in New York, New York. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

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So Joe Girardi’s contract seems to be in order. Three more years, around $9 million dollars. Keep things running as-is, the Yankees are saying. Is everyone happy? Nah, Bob Klapisch isn’t:

Girardi gets three more years to wean himself off managing-by-numbers. Good luck.

Not that ripping Girardi for actually playing the percentages is anything new for Klapisch. But even if Klapisch can’t help himself, you’d think the guy would get more than, oh 360 days after winning the World Series before having to wean himself off anything. But then again, I’ve never understood New York.

What I would like to see, though, is what kind of reception Girardi would get from the media if he did something just totally counter-intuitive, it backfired, and then when asked about it he said “I know the book said not to do that, but I had a gut feeling.”

Figure he’d be celebrated for it?