Touchet: Fired “For Being In First Place”

In this Paul Gough piece, Andrew Tyndall makes an interesting point about Tom Touchet’s firing: “They’re still in the lead. It’s tough when you get fired for being in first place. It’s something that (New York Yankees owner George) Steinbrenner would do. You’re not clobbering the competition, you’re just beating them. That’s pretty hard.”