Time to Promote Sandberg to Manage the Phils

Between the human bobblehead running the team as if it's still got four 30+ HR per season starters (flounder around each game waiting for a couple guys to knock one out) and the pitching coach whose super power is turning average pitchers into human gas cans, I think we have to take immediate action on multiple fronts.

The team is 6 games under .500 right now and a mile away from the chance at a wildcard play-in game. The players have checked out because they know how good they are compared to the likes of the Tigers. They know they have no chance of winning anything this season.

Charlie isn't bright enough to make any change in his managing approach, which again, the players already well know. (OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration - he did start bringing in relievers for one hitter instead of intending to keep them in for a full inning, which is the lazy way to manage relievers that you can get away with when you don't have an incendiary relief staff and terrible coaching..... but he only started doing that around the all-star break when we already had lost multiple leads in games due to his lazy, sloppy methodology.)

So it's human nature to pack it in when you recognize the utter futility of this sort of situation - it's bad and unlikely to get better soon.

Anyone who tries to tell them they can compete with the Cardinals and Tigers is going to get no respect at all. "Ummbh, welluhhh, we'bbuh gotta just go out and fight! Dats all." Inspiration!

We need to sell before the deadline passes to load up on near-term prospects. Then we need to send Charlie (maybe re-assign to work with Amaro temporarily as a goodwill gesture?) and Dubee (he's horrible) on their way now so that Sandberg can grab hold of the clubhouse and start working on a plan for 2014.

Some players may not like that approach, but everyone has to be on notice that the team has to alter it's approach at the plate and field to become successful in the absence of four 30+ HR hitters. It may be considered unfair to Charlie, but it can't get any more clear than it is today that he can't get anything out of these players. And running this mess out for the next couple months is more unfair to the fans than to any of the millionaires wearing a uniform (coaches and players alike).

If he's going to be gone next year, there is no sense to me to waste the rest of the season running into brick walls - use the opportunity to start working on a new approach.