"...Disconnect? Macha is blunt and my experience with him is that he tells his players what's expected of them, and he doesn't coddle them. He took three players with troubled pasts -- Jay Payton (who clashed with Terry Francona), Frank Thomas (considered a bad clubhouse influence with the White Sox at the end), and Milton Bradley (incidents everywhere he's played) -- and guided them to productive seasons. He got them playing together. The team thrived."

..."Sources around Major League Baseball during the ALCS said Macha wanted Dan Haren to pitch Games 3 and 7, but was overruled and comebacking Rich Harden (who missed more than three months with a sprained elbow ligament) was given the ball for Game 3 and Haren pushed back to Game 4. Macha also refused to sit Mark Kotsay in favor of Bobby Kielty..."

"...Macha, who went 93-69 and had a four-year record of 368-280 with two first-place and two second-place finishes, will not speak ill of Beane, or speak about him at all. Macha wanted to walk away with the dignity and class he always portrayed. The whole league knows that he did a very good managing job...."

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