Bozzuto named manager
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He also announced that hitting coach Bob Didier has "left" the team.
Williams told the O-R that Didier's decision to leave came before any decision to name Bozzuto the manager was made.
Here are some of the comments made by Bozzuto following Washington's 5-2 in over the Frontier Greys Saturday night:
"I'm the luckiest guy in the world, to be involved in professional baseball for a long time doing this. I'm very fortunate. ... I always said, even when I was coaching a college summer league team and American Legion teams, that any time you get put on a uniform, you should feel fortunate. To be able to represent a great organization, city and baseball team, I feel fortunate to have this opportunity.
"This team, this town, the season-ticket holders, the people who have filled this ballpark, they are like my family and friends. They’re very important to me. And this group of players is fantastic. They play through adversity, they do their job, they’re true professionals.
"I don't take this position lightly. It is very special, but it’s not about me. It’s about we and us."
According to Williams, the owner was informed several days ago that Didier had purchased a plane ticket to return to Arizona. After asking the coaches to meet after Friday night's game against Rockford and come up with a plan on how to delegate roles and work out any differences for remainder of the season, nothing had been finalized before the owner left the ballpark. Sometime early Saturday, Williams was told Didier was leaving. The two met at 2 p.m. and Didier informed Williams that he indeed was quitting and going back to Arizona. Didier wanted to talk to the players and inform them of his decision but was denied access.
posted by Chris Dugan at
7:55 AM
40 Comments:
What an incredibly disfunctional organization, it will be anticlimactic if they win anything this year,,,and the attendance still declines anyway.
Bring good food, beverages and beer at reasonalbe prices and you will see what a difference that makes.
The pitching coach must go too.
Congrats to Coach Bozzuto!
Congrats to Bobby Bozzuto. He deserves the job.
Sorry to see that Bob Didier decided to leave. He probably could see the handwriting
on the wall when Bryboski was not punished by the amateur hobbyist team owner, Stu
Williams. We should all admire Bob Didier for having something that is so wanting in the Wild Things
Management – CHARACTER and INTEGRITY.
I have no doubt that Stu Williams knows the right thing to do with Kevin Bryboski. I also have no
doubt that he will NOT do it because he is a power hungry owner-dictator that will have NOBODY
even suggesting to him what to do with ‘his team’. Gryboski is a black mark on the Wild Things history.
He has cost the team the best manager it ever had, I know that is being subjective, but I believe it to be true.
Gryboski has also cost the team a very good coach and, if it ever even had any since the Williams Era, it’s pride. Of course Didier was denied access to speak to the team. Being a man of integrity he was probably tell how things should be. Williams would never allow that!
Williams has zero regard for anybody or anything except Stu Williams. He certainly has no regard for the best interest
of baseball. If he really respected his “adult” players and even cared a little bit about their future, he would have sent
Mister, and I use that term very loosely in this case, Gryboski packing immediately. So these young men are now left with a man
equipped with very little respect for himself and even less for his elders as one of their leaders. Parents, don’t let your kids grow
up to play for a Stu Williams owned team because they will not be in good hands. Case in point – Kevin Gryboski. Your young
sons will learn that it’s not only alright to disrespect their manager and old people but to actually physically them. According to
‘Stu’s rules’, as the facts indicate, you will be rewarded for being a stupid jerk.
A word of warning Misters Gryboski and Zavacky. Stu Williams will cut the legs out from under you just quick as as heartbeat. He will
use you for all your worth, which IMHO is nothing, then throw your butts out the door. Right now you may think you have a
fat hog by the a##, believe me it’s really the other way around and it will be you’re a##s when all is said and done.
The lesson I see here is; become a wealthy attorney, have no knowledge of baseball, buy a baseball team. Never hear a suggestion
that didn’t come from your own family. Work your employees, except your daughters, eighty hours a week, or more. Treat everybody
as mushrooms. and want to win win so badly that any sort of behavior by your pitching coach is not only acceptable, but also,
indeed rewarded. What a sad commentary about both the Wild Things but also, The Frontier League. I can’t believe that a man I
respect very much, Bill Lee, would allow this to happen.
The one fact that Gryboski still wears a Wild Thing uniform, in and of itself, tells us volumes about your value system doesn’t it?
Then after all that, do what most of us would never be able to do – go home and sleep at night.
Just Win Baby! What could ever be more important that? What goes around, comes around.
Tinkering with the roster has already began. I hate to say it but, I actually hope the entire organization collapses. What a guy this Stu Williams is. The man is a just a rich eccentric. If he wasn't rich we would just call him nuts!
You mean to tell us that Bryboski stays? Holy s###!
So Stu Williams once again does the exact wrong thing. Of course, but should we be surprised at this? No, because that all he's ever done.
As anon at 11:51 said, Just win baby. Who cares about right and wrong, just win!
well, the Wild Things just lost me.
people like Gryboski always seem to somehow strike, no pun intended, a tone with people of their own ilk. Can you think of ant three bigger losers than Williams, Steve Z, and Bryboski? The three of them belong together - it's just karma. Bobby B. had better watch his back.
The Wild Clown strikes again.
"He has cost the team the best manager it ever had"
Best manager ever?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
That 6th place finish last year sure was impressive by Bart. Not too many managers could have done that.
Jeff Isom and John Mazz laugh at that one. Maybe even Mark Mason is laughing too.
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Anon at 12.37.
I presume you mean that nitwit
Gryboski. Yeah, wouldn't you just about know Williams would be that ignorant?
I have discovered what the "health" reason was that affected Bart Zellar so suddenly. It's called Williams Syndrome.
It was discovered by Dr. Williams and is also known as “Gryboski Disease”. The only place you can contract this
disease is in a first base dugout at CEP. Once it “hits” you the only known treatment is to retreat to Arizona.
Bob Didier also started feeling the symptoms late last week and decided to go to Arizona before it could
hit him upside the head also! Mr. Didier wanted to say a few words to his players but Dr. Williams denied him
access to them. I guess Dr. Williams didn’t want the secret cure getting out into the public.
Anyway, happy to report that both Mr. Zeller and Mr. Didier are recovering nicely at a non Williams owned
recovery center. The secret cure is a heavy dose of respect and appreciation. These treatments are not available
at Consol Energy Park. The disease is still lurking in that dugout and will remain so until the “carrier” is removed.
Managers and coaches are especially vulnerable to this sudden malady. So, Bobby be real careful in there.
Anon at 4:57 PM
So how many championships did these great managers bring to town?
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
Maz had a big mouth and an even bigger ego. Isom and Mason were much nicer people BUT, no championship.
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
BTW: There are no great managers in the Frontier League. It all relative.
I like Boz, I wish he was made manager of a solid organization, not this rich boys play toy. He should run, not walk back to the North Hills and hide. Nothing good is going to come of this! Williams and Zavacky know nothing about baseball and business. They bully the employees, mismanage everything and wonder why no one cares that the team is winning. This whole situation is a joke. Like someone in Washington said to me once, "The Fish Stinks From The Head Down."
And what did Zeller bring to town? A 6th place team. Mazz and Isom wouldn't have done that if they stayed here 50 years. Hell Jelks didn't have a losing season.
No way Zeller is the best manager Wild Things ever had. But we appreciate your funny comments so keep us laughing.
Hahahahahahahahaha.
Now the WJPA broadcast team has apparently fallen into the lemming crowd.
During the first game broadcast Sunday, first, they spout off about the Rebellion, that fraud softball team with a winning percentage of .166. Blah, blah, blah, about it's good to have a team, etc.
Well, I understand the position they are in so, what the heck.
Then they praise Steve Z for the work he has done in regard to the bringing the team to Washington.
Everybody already knows Z can't blow his nose unless Williams tells him it's okay. Even if he did have even a modicum of independence, why praise him for a team that can't find it's butt with both hands. How about Z being responsible for the Rebellion manager leaving almost before the season got started?
Finally, 12 bucks for a seat that cost 10 bucks if it were a baseball game. Then you get seven innings of the most silly girl stuff I've ever seen. You will find much better women's softball at your local university at a much lower price. Just because it's called professional doesn't mean it's actually anything near that. Come on guy's, your bigger than that!
So it seems a guy who has been with the Wildthings for a long time is named manager and only two people even take the time to congratulate him or wish the man luck and one of those goes on babbling for the next 40 lines about who knows what.
Typical Washington fans.
Steve definitely wasn't responsible for bringing the softball team to town. The idea for the team was a spinoff of an attraction from last year's Frontier League All-Star Game in Washington, which again he had nothing to do with.
He was responsible for both managers leaving. You can ask him why the managers left. He won't tell you why but you can watch his face gets red as he starts experiencing symptoms of "heat stroke". He only still has a job because his nose is the right size for Stu Williams.
"You will find much better women's softball at your local university."
Yes, we have a winner for Dumbest Comment of the Year.
Its great Bob B got the Managers Job. As far ad I can tell he's a good guy. It was nice of him to lie and praise the management. It was very nice of him to give props to the fans, all 50 of them. Wait until Stu and Steve sink their fangs into him and change him over to another day walking zombie! Although, they could do something worst to him, give him free food from the concession stands....nah, that's too mean, even for the un-dynamic duo.
Anon at 1.17 PM said
"Yes, we have a winner for Dumbest Comment of the Year"
Yes, we do and it's YOU! In fact you are so dumb you won without having to even enter the contest
The Rebellion is the biggest farce Williams has come up with yet and he is really good at manufacturing a farce!
He and Gryboski are an absolute cancer to the Wild Things. The man has no scruples and no conscience. Probably has a dog just so he can kick the crap out of the poor animal. He has no redeeming social qualities that I can think of. Gryboski has even fewer qualities than Stu Williams, if that's possible.
Anyway, being the winner of the "Dumbest Comment of the Year" I suppose think Bart Zeller deserved what happened to him. Damn, I wish the Williams family would stop posting stuff on this blog. Haven't you jerks done enough damage already?
Also, why is it Stu's daughters get to take time off when nobody else in the office is afforded that privilege? Good ol' Dad! He's such a great man. NOOOT!
I heard some of the office staff are really starting to get ticked off about that sort of crap.
Why do you think the team is doing well this year? bart took over a team with not much talent. But then again, you can't figure that out. The new players came to Washington because Bart knows talent unlike others in the past. Good luck to Bob. My family and I miss seeing Bart at the field.
""You will find much better women's softball at your local university."
Still the Dumbest Comment of the Year.
Anon at 8.04 PM
Have it your way but, we all know who the biggest idiot of the year is. You can find out who it is too. Just go to your bathroom, find the mirror, and look straight ahead.
Long live Bart Zeller. All the worst to Stu, Steve, and the biggest Adam Henry to ever wear, and disgrace, a Wild Things uniform, Kevin Gryboski.
Oh yea, the Rebellion still stinks.
Did Bando really win more games than Bart did last year?
You're right, the Rebellion still stinks.
"Long live Bart Zeller??????"
that is the funniest line ever. bart didn't put this entire team together. In all honesty he only brought 3 or 4 players on board. This years team is winning because of the players not the managers. Bart leaves and the "players" keep winning. Didier leaves and the "players keep winning. I think we should just understand that we (town of Washington) have a really good team this year and no matter what distractions arises they still find a way to get it done. Go Things!
This is the most negative crap ive ever seen!I sit in the stands and hear fans wearing wild things gears put down their own team, whos in first cough cough. I guess all of you guys just hate your life and wanna bring everyone down to your miserable level. PATHETIC get a life
Sounds like Jeff is posting again but leaving his name off.
Things are so great at the ballpark that people are staying away by the thousands. Could all of them be wrong? No, YOU are wrong.
Bart brought way more players than 3 or 4to the things this year. It certainly wasn't the gm. Also, do you have any idea how many returning players came back because he was the Manager. Again, I'm guessing you never played an inning in pro ball?. I have so I have the knowledge you don't. Watch what happens when and if they make the playoffs. I won't speak until the end of the season. Just watch.
There is nothing positive in this promotion for Boz. He was snubbed more than once for the job. Now that nobody will come to manage the team, all of a sudden he has become 'the man'! Really? How do you suppose the management has not seen all his virtues before now? Apparently the management could not see the forest for the trees as they signed other managers to contracts while overlooking the man right before their very eyes. The management was even stupid enough to give one of these dopey persons a five year contract. Od course, that included the managers son that couldn't play in the Little League. Being that Stu is such a worshiper of ex-MLB players he through he had a fat hog by the tail. Haw, haw, Stu - the laugh is on you.
Now how's this for a combination? A really nice man as the manager and a pugilist as a pitching coach. About the first time the nice man pisses the pugilist off, the nice guy gets his face smashed in and the pugilist probably gets two more days in the owners suite AND, promoted to manager. What a screwed up world it is in the Wild Things hierarchy.
God help us all and save us from Stu Williams.
Well said but, I think Boz can hold is own against a cheap shot, no talent punk! Yeah, you Ski, as your 2 friends call you. As for a trip to the owners phone booth, oh, I mean suite....that suite started the whole thing down the hole in the outhouse which is now our beloved baseball park. Some of us really want the team to be sold, not to be used as a thing. I would love to go to a Wild Things game again...but will not unless someone owns it and remembers why the team was brought to our town.
I have never posted a word on this blog without my name attached to it.
Perhaps you'll actually do the same one of this days. And if you do, be sure to use your real name.
We received a letter from the Washington Wild Things office in today's mail that was truly revealing.
Steve X begging the season ticket holders can bring guest to the games at a discount! Hell, they can't get even get people to show up for free so why should we rip off our friends for the Wild Things. At our age many friends are dying left and right. I don't want to lose any more of them by dragging them to a WT game.
The WT allow a young pitching coach to beat up a person in our age group and go unpunished. Shows Stu's respect for old folks doesn't it?
This letter is an admission that things are really bad in the attendance department.
The team is really desperate and we are supposed them out?
Fat chance of that!
When you get your letter please note Stu Williams didn't sign it He had his chief lackey Steve Z make a fool of himself instead.
Jeff said...
“I have never posted a word on this blog without my name attached to it.
Perhaps you'll actually do the same one of this days. And if you do, be sure
to use your real name.”
...........
Jeff, that's not going to happen.
I agree that real names should be used also. That is up until today, Aug 7th when
I posted something using my moniker Ima Fraid. Now I must admit that I probably posted it under the wrong thread but I don't think that made it a major crime except to Chris. Everybody knows my real name is Ron Wilson.
I posted something about what I felt should be allowed on the blog, and why. Instead of taking it at face value Chris Dugan decided to point the finger at me as trying to tell him how, when, or what to post. He even suggested that I wanted him to get permission from me on what to post. NEVER HAPPENED!
That was NEVER said nor even implied by me. Read it yourself and you’ll see that. I was honest
about what my thoughts were and used my moniker so as to not be a keyboard cowboy.. Would I have done that if I was trying to do what be accused me of? I am old and dumb, but not stupid. I am, and always have been, honest and don’t hide my feelings about things. It's that is a crime then I'm guilty as charged!
So Jeff, as of today, my mind has changed about using your name on this blog. It will get you nothing but ridicule and a reprimand from even the blog owner just because I let him know who I was. In other words, for just expressing myself and taking responsibility for my words.
I’m not suggesting that you don’t use your real name Jeff, but I don’t need that sort of baloney in my life. That’s enough for me.
I’m too old for that. So much for holding on to my lifelong set of values. The younger set does not appreciate honesty and, as today proves, will just get you set up for, and singled out for, insults.
Of course your “real name” should also include your real last name!
Also Jeff, I know that you know who I am as a result of reading a post earlier this season. Since you have the advantage of me, please stop by my seat some evening and introduce yourself.
Well shows how much you smart people know!! Boz has always been the man he has the respect from any one he works for and is the one to bring those men on the field through this storm! And since when did you guys become managers/ owners your fans! You pay to sit in the stands stop trying to call the shots and pull for the players its about them and they looked pretty talented for this year!!
Anonymous at 9.33 PM said.
Well shows how much you smart people know!!
Of course, you are correct in your assessment.
I just can't help but wonder why they passed over this incredibly talented man so many times when he was right under their noses. Why did they wait until nobody with knowledge of the Frontier League, especially Stu Williams and Steve Z, refused to manage this team?
Anon at 3.42
I think Boz can hold is own against a cheap shot, no talent punk! Yeah, you Ski, as your 2 friends call you.
He actually has two friends? You could have fooled me.
I think there may be three. Stu, Steve, and CJ Beatty who, at last check was comfortable with the coaching situation.
So, I told you all what would happen in the playoffs. Boz is a good man but made some crucial mistakes as a Manager. No doubt someone will take Zeller. His record was 31-19 for goodness sake. When are the wildthings going to cut mr.temper pitching coach?
Keep in mind that Zeller's record was compiled with both Ijames and Beatty in the lineup. Bozzuto had neither of those players in the postseason. Think they might have made a difference in that 2-1 12-inning game? I'd think so.
Keep in mind all the players besides them that filled many voids. Again, it would have been better with both Bart and Bozzuto.
Ijames and Beatty were the biggest losses. They were the difference-makers.
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