That night the Royals won another game. Again the Royals went out and won. He worked as a hitting coach with the Reds, Phillies and Devil Rays before getting a second chance earlier this year. That's the paradox of sports. One man's firing is another man's chance.
Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder much the same as an injury is a curse only to the injured.
When Larry Rothschild was fired as manager, McRae was promoted to manager of baseball's worst franchise. The same fans that booed him seven years earlier now wonder what might have been. The Royals are struggling and manager Tony Muser, like the fiery McRae and the pseudo-intellectual Bob Boone before him, is the new man drawing the wrath of Royals fans. It's the same in all victory-starved cities. Fans always want what they don't have.