{"id":1714,"date":"2009-09-16T06:38:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/16\/everyone-loves-a-winner-time-for-cox-to-go\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T15:16:21","slug":"everyone-loves-a-winner-time-for-cox-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/16\/everyone-loves-a-winner-time-for-cox-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone loves a winner.  Time for Cox to go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really do not get the recent criticism of Bobby Cox.  I do not see how another manager would have manufactured more wins, much less a playoff appearance, out of the current Braves or the past few teams that have failed to make the playoffs.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jeff-schultz-blog\/2009\/09\/15\/cox-wont-commit-to-returning-for-another-season\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jeff-schultz-blog\/2009\/09\/15\/cox-wont-commit-to-returning-for-another-season\/', 'Jeff Schultz');\" target=\"new\">Jeff Schultz<\/a> has a blog entry on the current status of Cox; he may be contemplating retirement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But there\u2019s something about this team that Cox\u2019s critics still don\u2019t grasp: The Braves are only good, not great. With Chipper Jones slumping, they\u2019re closer to average. They have very good starting pitching but sporadic hitting.<\/p>\n<p>If and when the Braves miss the playoffs again, it won\u2019t be because of Bobby Cox, it will be because of the personnel. But it\u2019s the easy answer, isn\u2019t it? Michael Vick breaks a leg, fire Dan Reeves. And where are Joe Paterno\u2019s critics now?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cox deserves better than being swept under the carpet, and before the Glavine debacle, I would have said it would never happen to one of baseball\u2019s all time great managers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really do not get the recent criticism of Bobby Cox. I do not see how another manager would have manufactured more wins, much less a playoff appearance, out of the current Braves or the past few teams that have failed to make the playoffs. Jeff Schultz has a blog entry on the current status &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/16\/everyone-loves-a-winner-time-for-cox-to-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everyone loves a winner.  Time for Cox to go?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,61],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}