PHILADELPHIA — When the Phillies finally fired Sleepy Joe Girardi just 51 painful games into a dying 2022 season, it sent a message to the public that sloppy, stupid baseball no longer will be tolerated at Citizens Bank Park.
Unless Rob Thomson delivers that message to the players, Girardi’s firing won’t matter.
Larry Bowa, the incendiary former Phillies skipper, told me last year that Thomson was the best managerial candidate in the major leagues who’d never gotten a chance to manage. This is his chance. Some advice:
