Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Mike LaCoss called in to The Murph & Markus Show, KNBR’s morning show hosted by Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher, on Thursday and tore into CEO Larry Baer and the hiring of first-year manager Tony Vitello....

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“The hiring of the college guy, don’t you think that’s kind of a slap in the face to all of the minor league managers in professional baseball and all of the bench coaches in Major League Baseball that think about becoming a major league manager? They just bypassed all those guys and threw this college guy in there,” LaCoss said. “And of course, when you saw the look on his face in his first real press conference, you saw a totally different look on this guy’s face, man. Like he just saw his dog got run over in the driveway.”

While LaCoss said he wasn’t rooting for Vitello to fail, he added that the manager’s “word salads are going to get worse and worse” if the Giants keep losing. When Murphy told the ex-player that, “If you think the negative takes might be miffing some of the Giants brass, some of the front office guys don’t want the negative takes.” LaCoss was ready to take it there.

“They have the most hated executive in Major League Baseball still around,” he said. “Until they cut the head of the snake off, the baseball gods are going to continue to punish. That’s all I’m going to say. You’ll figure it out.”

(AwfulAnnouncing)

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