Kendall was a hell of a player in his day. Wish he was around about 10 years earlier or 10 years later.
Wehner was Bill Cowher's clone. Seemed to always get a clutch hit or make a great play when the game was on the line. I'd take either of them. Couldn't be any worse than Lloyd McClendon. I don't think he had any managerial experience.
I'm not going to bash Lloyd. Danny Murtaugh couldn't have won with the slop he had to work with. You might remember that Yankee fans groaned when the team hired Joe Torre. "Horrible hire" they said. What a bum! Amazing how much better Joe became when he had material to work with. Go hire the best guy you can get. Looking for a local guy, or one with ties to the Pirates is dumb. Watching Tampa Bay, I'm reminded of all the folks who always want the Bucs to trade their prospects at the trade deadline. You better get it right. Horrible trade, and at a horrible time. If you make a trade like this in 2015, and it blows up in your face, I can live with it. You had a team capable of winning it all, and you took a shot. You don't make this trade trying to finish above .500 like in 2018. That team was never going to bring home the bacon. Teams like the Pirates are going to live and die with what they bring up from the farm. You have to be very careful to get great value if you trade any of these guys away. Dumb trade!
Good luck to Clint Hurdle going forward. He didn't get it done in the postseason, but at least we became relevant for a while under his leadership. I'd compare Clint to Marvin Lewis. Lewis gets bashed here, but burdened by the worst owner in sports (even worse than Nutting), he produced winning teams in a place where all had failed since Paul Brown died. Bengal fans are going to look back on the Lewis era with fondness when the 4-12 seasons become the norm again. Hope that doesn't happen with the Bucs.