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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Can-Am League Update: Nashua Finds New Manager

I just saw this article on the Can-Am league's front page and thought I'd share......

RICK MILLER NAMED NEW NASHUA PRIDE MANAGER
Former Red Sox Outfielder to lead the 2007 Can-Am League Champions in 2008




NASHUA, NH - After an extensive search, Nashua Pride officials today announced that former Red Sox outfielder, Rick Miller (pictured), has been hired to manage the 2007 Can-Am League Champions. Miller will be formally introduced at the third annual Nashua Pride Winterfest on Thursday, December 13th, beginning at 6 PM at Historic Holman Stadium. Rick Miller spent 12 of his 15 years in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. He was a member of the 1975 team that won the American League Pennant, but lost to the “Big Red Machine” Cincinnati Reds in the World Series.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to manage in a city with such a rich baseball history as Nashua and in one of the best baseball markets in the world, the greater Boston area,” said Miller. “I want to thank Mr. Stabile for giving me the chance to get back into coaching, especially at the professional level. It is great to be back in New Hampshire, and to manage for a championship caliber organization.”

Since his playing career ended in 1985, the 1978 Gold Glover has kept busy within baseball circles. In 1992, Miller took the hitting, outfield, and first base coaching positions for the San Jose Giants, the High-A Class Affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Shortly after, he started the Rick Miller XSOX Baseball School in the New England area. From 1996-2006 Miller served as the assistant baseball coach for Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire. Miller was a 2nd round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox in the 1969 amateur draft. Miller made his big league debut with the Red Sox in 1971 and enjoyed one of his best seasons in 1973 when he hit .261 with 6 HR and 43 RBI in 143 games. The Grand Rapids, Michigan native spent the other 3 years in the majors with the then California Angels.

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Congrats to Nashua on getting a new manager. He doesn't seem to have any managerial expereicne, but his experiences and input should be invaluable to some of Nashua's players.
What do you guys think about this?

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Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

Seems like a desperate move to leech off the Red Sox obsession and take advantage of his local roots. I have to wonder how well a 59-year-old is going to adjust to managing professionals for the very first time.

Anonymous said...

A cheap shot in this election year. Your franchise or political party authors a stroke of genius, while the opponents "make a desperate move to...take advantage of" a strength. Compare NBC on Bush. Now that the Pride are no longer an on-field adversary, why should you treat them as an enemy? The only thing you have to fear is the "new business model" mentioned in the Nashua paper, in which Pride baseball gets so cost-reduced that Fraser Field becomes a lot more fun (which it always was in certain ways).

--Spike

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

Spike - I do have a few questions for you, starting with: With skin that thin, how do you survive the New England winters?

Explain to me exactly how hiring a guy with no professional experience as a manager is a "stroke of genius?"

Explain to me exactly which credentials Miller has BESIDES his ties to the Red Sox or that he was a pro player?

Explain to me exactly how I am treating the Pride as an enemy; does the fact that I went to Pride games at least twice a summer from 2000 to 2005 indicative of hatred?

Explain to me exactly how posting anonymously (read: no login that produces an electronic signature) and then accusing me of taking a cheap shot is not hypocritical?

Anonymous said...

Speaking of cold New England winters, it is too cold for a pissing contest with an equally anonymous fan. (Most readers here know who I am and have met me at Fraser.)

But anyway: Why the negativity toward the Pride? Miller has coached baseball, though this is his first stint as manager. Indeed it might not work. Do you have a better nominee--consistent with the low-budget approach that the Pride reportedly are taking this year?

--Spike

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

I can't help you with your incorrect inference of negativity towards the Pride, or your specious assumption that I am not known to the other readers here. Any team that hires a manager without professional managerial experience is gambling that he'll be successful with no track record to go by.

Coaching small-college kids with a limited travel schedule over a few weeks is significantly easier than managing young men for 94 games over nearly four months across three states and two Canadian provinces.

More importantly, the real question is: Who's going to be in charge of player procurement? In other words, has that changed? In my view, that's arguably more important than the manager, especially at this level.

That written, this is still professional baseball and it would be wise to choose someone with prior professional managerial experience, preferably at the independent level, over someone who hasn't managed or coached professional athletes in more than a decade.

If the Pride are going low-budget, then perhaps they ought to focus on hiring a young manager that's recently been displaced from the affiliated or independent ranks. Has anyone, for example, hired Mike Church from the former New Haven County Cutters?

Anonymous said...

same ol same ol

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

Brevity isn't always the soul of wit...

Anonymous said...

I'm a pride fan and I think
this criticism is a low blow.

attending two games a year
does not give you insight to the Nashua situation. Mike Church does us absolutely no good when Buchholz, Ellsbury and Pedroia are playing 20 minutes to the Pride
in either direction...

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

Mike - What part of "any team" did you not understand? My criticism is that the Pride are hiring an inexperienced manager. That is an undeniable, indisputable fact. This is a "low blow" how? Because you say so?

Church was a suggestion based on Spike's challenge to name someone else who's cheap-but-experienced.
Unlike Miller, he has managed at the independent level. Unlike Miller, he has managed in this league. Unlike Miller, he has a track record of success as a manager, at this level, and in this league.

Now a couple of questions for you, my similarly thin-skinned friend:

Since when do people go to baseball games to see the manager?

At what point did I claim to have insight into the Nashua situation?

Did I not make reference to my attendance to Pride games as evidence that I do not hate the team?

Do yourself a favor and read fully before responding.

Anonymous said...

What part of "seems like a desperate move to leech off the Red Sox obsession and take advantage of his local Red
Sox roots" is NOT a low blow...

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

All of it. It's a fair and accurate comment. He still has no professional managing experience and he is still local to New Hampshire and his affiliation to the Red Sox is still mentioned first and foremost in the press releases. I'm sorry you're unable to face these facts, but they are still facts.

Anonymous said...

typical wooden BS...ignore him

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

My, what a clever retort... from someone without the spine to sign his or her name.

Anonymous said...

(1) Chris Hall admirably managed player procurement last year, and is probably in the running for the GM job now that Robin has returned to Lynn. (But no one goes to ball games to see the VP of Player Procurement, either.)

(2) Potvin is right; hiring a guy with a Red Sox name is not "leech[ing] off an obsession," it is MARKETING. Might bring a few dozen Red Sox fans up from the metro Boston area. I know the three Japanese in the starting rotation brought a lot of Boston-area Japanese to Holman Stadium. Was that "a desperate move"? It was a lot of fun!

(3) Wooden, you'll now see I disagree with none of your observations, just your adversarial tone of voice. Without a doubt, this is a big promotion for Rick Miller and we'll see how he does.

(4) Hmm, no one here votes that the Pride consider "fan-friendly" Vic Davilla as manager?!

--Spike

Wooden U. Lykteneau said...

Spike, the first question was rhetorical, but you have tacitly agreed.

Secondly, it may be "MARKETING" to hire an inexperienced ex-Sox player as your manager, but it's neither GOOD nor SMART. It's lazy. And that's my opinion as a marketing professional (read: I am paid to make those judgments), which just might have a bit more weight than those of a "fan" or an unpaid intern.

Thirdly, if you agreed with my opinions, why call them a "cheap shot" in the first place? Why make a weak comparison to an age-old (Agnewian) complaint of conservatives instead? Sorry, but your concession is both late and hollow.

Fourth, ummm, probably because the Sussex Skyhawks hold his rights as a player and until Lanier was named the new manager earier this week, it appeared they may have been considering him?

Anonymous said...

Good and smart if he and they do well.
Adversarial is what he does best Spike ...he thinks.

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