Terry Francona in as Tribe bench boss

I'll get to the Browns review of the tape of their loss in New York to the Giants tomorrow and maybe a look at the West Coast Giants baseball version's two home losses to the Reds as well.
I thought that the Indians hiring of Terry Francona as the new Cleveland manager should take precedence today and a few thoughts on what I think on this topic

Well,what I think about is this-What is Terry Francona thinking???
This is a manager with two titles on his resume' and this is the job that he takes?
The man that ended the Curse wants this job?
And he WANTS to work with Mark Shapiro and Chris Antonetti?

OK,Terry Francona is quite an addition to the organization-I get that,but to take over a bad baseball team with little hope on the horizon for impact help from the minor system shows that Francona was pretty desperate to return to the field.
Keep in mind that the great minds that put the Indians in this situation are still the same people running the team in Mark Shapiro and Chris Antonetti and as good of a manager as Francona is,his experience in Philadelphia with the Phillies when the team was in a similar situation as the Indians (read bad baseball club) shows just how much a manager can do with a lack of talent.
Francona never won more than 77 games in four full seasons with the Phillies and yet won two titles in Boston.
Rule of thumb-good managers cannot overrule bad talent,but bad managers can ruin good talent.
Terry Francona is undeniably a good manager and the Indians would have been lambasted in the media had the Tribe made an uninspiring hire,but unless the front office gets their act together and I see no reason to believe that will happen anytime soon.

Francona knows the way things are done with the Indians having spent time with the organization before accepting the Boston position,so he cannot go into this blind.
He knows the teams less than stellar record in trades and free agency,the awful drafting and player development and Francona has to know about having one of the smallest budgets in the game to work with.

So again,the question-Why would Terry Francona want this job?
It has to come down to love of the game and maybe his love of the Indians>
I cannot come up with any other reason.
I wish him luck,he'll need it....

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