I'm afraid I agree with Tom...Steve was fun to watch, but I think Sean would
be a better choice as manager. That said, do we REALLY want to have any
dealings with the Central League?? They've already screwed us over TWICE.

Cynde


>From: "B R E N T" <tyler_roughnecks@...>
>Reply-To: TylerBaseball@yahoogroups.com
>To: TylerBaseball@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [TylerBaseball] Colts release Steve Maddock
>Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:26:59 -0500
>
>Our Fall/Winter project is to create an ownership group for a Central
>League
>franchise & HIRE STEVE MADDOCK AS OUR MANAGER!
>
>:)
>Brent
>
>========================
>Colts won't renew manager's contract
>
>Maddock released after two seasons, search for replacement to begin 'almost
>immediately'
>
>By JEFF MCDONALD, San Angelo Standard-Time Staff Writer
>September 9, 2003
>
>When Steve Maddock left the manager's office at Foster Field following the
>San Angelo Colts' final game of the season, he had an inkling that he might
>be leaving it for the last time.
>He'd already asked his bosses if his contract was going to be renewed. They
>didn't give him a firm answer.
>On Monday, less than two weeks after packing up his things and heading home
>to a state of uncomfortable limbo in Arlington, Maddock wondered again
>whether he still had a job in San Angelo.
>So he picked up a phone and called the Colts' front office.
>This time, the powers-that-be gave him an answer. It wasn't what he wanted
>to hear.
>''I had a feeling that this was coming,'' Maddock said, reacting to the
>news
>that the Colts would not be renewing his contract when it expires at the
>end
>of the month. ''If they had wanted me back, they would have said something
>before now.''
>In Maddock's case, no news was bad news.
>He has essentially been fired after a 2003 season in which the Colts failed
>to make the playoffs for the first time ever, and a year after the team won
>its first-ever Central Baseball League championship.
>Maddock, who was 103-97 in two seasons with San Angelo, was the second
>manager in club history. The Colts will set out looking for their third
>manager in five years, ''almost immediately,'' Executive General Manager
>Harlan Bruha said.
>He said he hopes to have a new manager in place by the end of December.
>''It just wasn't a good year; it was frustrating for me, it was frustrating
>for the fans, it was frustrating for everybody,'' said Bruha, who
>ultimately
>pulled the trigger on Maddock's ouster. ''How can we overcome that
>frustration if we don't make a change? I think we can solve that
>frustration
>by bringing in someone new with fresh ideas.''
>Maddock does not disagree that the season was frustrating.
>He just figured that the 2002 CBL championship campaign would have banked
>him more goodwill than he could exhaust with one lackluster season.
>He figured he'd earned the benefit of the doubt.
>''I would have thought so,'' he said. ''I got my ring, and I'm happy with
>that. I just would have thought it would have bought me more time.''
>Maddock's time ran out, apparently, during a 2003 season in which the club
>led the league in both hitting and errors - and ranked last in pitching -
>and missed the postseason.
>''Winning is everything,'' Bruha said. ''I just didn't feel like we got the
>performance out of our ball club for the quality of players that we had.''
>There were other grievances that led to the decision, Bruha said.
>Maddock made limitless personnel moves during his tenure, and the roster
>was
>almost always in a state of flux.
>When he took over prior to the 2002 campaign, he kept only one player from
>the 2001 team. That player, Franklin Taveras, was waived before the
>all-star
>break.
>This year, he kept just one player from the 2002 championship squad.
>Gilbert
>Landestoy, too, was waived before the all-star break.
>This year, the constant tinkering never paid off. In one instance, the
>Colts
>released a pitcher - Jake Carney - who went on to be the league's pitcher
>of
>the month of August for Coastal Bend.
>Bruha, who added that he supported the decision to release Carney, cited
>that as one example of a Maddock mistake.
>''Steve's greatest strength was the way he found players; he was a master
>at
>it,'' Bruha said. ''But sometimes it was too much. Sometimes, that was a
>strength and a weakness.''
>Maddock defended the way he managed the team's roster.
>''I stand by the way I did things,'' he said. ''The first year (in 2002),
>if
>we didn't make all the changes we made, we wouldn't have won a
>championship.''
>Bruha agreed.
>Still, when the Colts go looking for their newest manager they'll be
>looking
>for someone who wants to build on the nucleus of players who are already
>here, he said.
>Bruha said two of the players he expects to be a part of that nucleus are
>veteran outfielders Buck McNabb and Juan Rocha, who were all-stars for the
>Colts last year. McNabb was named the CBL's Player of the Year, the first
>Colt ever to win that honor.
>The relationship between Maddock and McNabb was icy near the end of the
>season. During a late-season game against Edinburg, McNabb was pulled from
>the game and sent to the clubhouse after a confrontation with the manager.
>Bruha did not say his relationship with McNabb was a reason behind the
>decision to part ways with Maddock.
>''I just think a different style of leadership in the clubhouse and on the
>field might help us get back to the playoffs,'' Bruha said.
>Maddock, meanwhile, is out looking for another job.
>He says he's already talked to at least four different teams, some of which
>are in the CBL and some aren't. Alexandria, Coastal Bend and Ozark are the
>three other CBL teams with managerial vacancies.
>Maddock, it turns out, had a little bit of a head start in the race to find
>a new employer.
>''I'd already been looking around, just in case (the Colts) didn't want me
>back,'' he said. ''Unfortunately, I was right.''
>
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