mike scioscia is cool

Scioscia won the AL Manager of the Year on Wednesday. Very much deserved, not only for the way he handled Nick's death and the injuries, but the kind of leader he is. For all the second-guessing he gets in the playoffs, the way the team played for him in ALCS Game 5 shows how the guys in the clubhouse feel about him.

Not saying that he shouldn't be accountable (the squeeze last year was painful), but that there's a reason why he has his picture on a banner at the entrance of the big A.