Screwball that is what I felt at the time too, Ralph Houk left and Jim Leyland had been managing all these young guys, Trammell and Whitaker and the others, and I really wanted him to get the Tigers job...and they gave it to Les Moss. Les Moss? Come on, wtf. To be fair Les Moss had been managing in the Tigers' system too and had developed Lance Parrish as a catcher. But it should have been Leyland.
That really, really disappointed me. And then Moss gets booted out after less than half a season for Sparky Anderson who, with that incredibly loaded team from 1983 to 1987, gets to exactly 1 World Series. It should have been Jim Leyland.