The Sky Sox New Manager Should Be...

This managing stuff, is it hard?
Nope. It ain't rocket science.

Stu Cole got the call and will be spending his 2013 in the 3rd base coach's box for the Colorado Rockies. Congrats Stu!

The sun is shinyer in the big leagues!

Tagging alone with Stu will be the Sox hitting instructor Rene Lachemann. Lach will be hanging out in the 1st base coach's box, yelling stuff and frightening children (read all about it here).

"Don't be lying to me! Understand?!"
We'll miss you Lach!

So that leaves us wondering who'll get the gig with the Sox? Smart money is on Duane Espy, the manager with the Rockies AA affiliate Tulsa Drillers. The Rocks like to promote from within and no one will be surprised if Espy is named. But who should the Rockies pick to manage in Colorado Springs? Our first thought was Jason Giambi. Awesome guy, connected with players while he was down here, knows the game and would make a great coach/manager. But wait you say! He doesn't have any experience coaching or managing! Really? Managing is just keeping the clubhouse on an even keel. Any chimp can do a double switch, contrary to what purist chuckleheads say, so a good manager just needs to be a leader. A good leader. And Giambi is that indeed.

The Giambino would bring professionalism,
and media attention to the Sky Sox...

...plus, he's a really, really good dude.

Then we got to thinking that as good Giambi would be, there may just be a better choice out there. Someone with experience managing at the minor league level, someone that played for the Sky Sox and is also one heck of a good human being, someone named Sal Fasano. 

How awesome would it be if this man
was named the next manager of the
Colorado Springs Sky Sox?

Sal has managed the last two years in the Blue Jays organization, A ball in 2010 and AA in 2011. And Fasano won AA Manger of the Year when he lead the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to an Eastern League championship. So the dude's got skills. Mad phat skillz!

Sal Fasano.
One of the truly good guys in sport.

The biggest problem with Sal is that he thinks he got screwed when he was here in 2009 (read about it here). And I can't really disagree with him. But 2012 is a different time and maybe, just maybe we can dream a little bit about making right past wrongs and seeing Sal Fasano in a Sky Sox uniform with a smile on his face and a lineup card in his hand.