Cubs Nip Fish; Bye-Bye, Dusty

Monday, October 02 2006 @ 02:25 PM EDT

So you (like everyone, pretty much) figured Florida's Joe Girardi would be the first manager dismissed after the end of the regular season? No so fast my friend ... this morning the loveable, loseable Cubbies axed Dusty Baker to start what may or may not be an off-season managerial merry-go-round.

• Late Update: Dusty's old team, the Giants, hurried into second place in the axe-the-skip sweepstakes by firing Felipe Alou.
• Still Later Update: And Girardi, as expected, is gone -- the fourth skipper to get a pink slip, along with Alou, Baker and Frank Robinson on Saturday. ESPN.com is tracking all the 2006 MLB managerial changes.
• Yep, A Still Later Later Update: The Rangers say Bye-Bye, Buck and bring to five the number of '06 managers now out of work.
  

So ...

1. Discuss
2. Who's next (other than Girardi)?
3. What else needs to happen, whether it will or won't?
4. Predictions: next stop for Dusty (and Felipe and Girardi and F-Robby)?

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