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Originally Posted by Chip R

You trying to steal my thunder?

http://www.redszone.com/forums/showp...&postcount=629

Besides the tendancy to overwork starters and his teams drastically improving in his first year, I don't think the comparison holds as much water as I thought it did.

Billy never really stayed in any one place long enough to see if his teams went downhill after he was there for a while.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ma...artibi02.shtml

Dusty stayed quite a while in SF and while they plotzed after his first season, he got them back to the Series. Dusty coddles his players - especially the vets. Billy coddled no one. Billy was a drunk and had problems off the field with his fists. Other than almost getting his kid ran over, I don't recall any problems with Dusty. Billy was known as a genius in the dugout as far as strategy went. Dusty, not so much. After thinking about it, I really think they have more differences than similarities.

Can't. Read. Everything.

(And if I take the time to read until the end of a thread to see if someone else already made the point I was planning to make...I usually forget what the point was by the end of the thread...does that make sense?)