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Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox was awarded the NL Manager of the Year award. I’ll give him credit for this year; he had a lot of rookies and a lot of injured stars that he had to handle. The Braves won the division when it wasn’t expected by all. (Of course, they lost in the NLDS…it wouldn’t be an official baseball season without an NLDS loss).

I’m sick and tired of hearing all this cheering about how great of a manager Bobby Cox is. This year, yes, he did a fine job and probably deserves the Manager of the Year award. But all we hear from local sports folks (like the totally awesome Pete “Snake” Davis on 640 AM) is how wonderful Bobby is. I’m sorry, but my mother could have managed those 1990s Braves teams to the post season. When you give a man that much talent, the team is going to be successful. He hasn’t done all that much in the manager’s role.

As a general manager, yes, he was great. But Bobby needs to step back out of the dugout and let the Braves get a real manager in his current role. 14 post seasons since 1991 and 1 World Series championship. Yeah, we almost won, but if I almost did my job 13 out of 14 years, I’d be writing this from the unemployment line while leeching off of some guy’s unsecured wireless internet access point.