Mismanaging a baseball team will do it. As James Wagner reports in the Washington Post:
After a tumultuous and disappointing 2015 season, the Washington Nationals have fired Manager Matt Williams with a year remaining on his contract. Expected to repeat as National League East champions and contend for their first World Series title, the Nationals and their team-record $164-million payroll finished with a 83-79 record and failed to reach the playoffs.
The wisecracks (remember that word?) almost write themselves. But the most interesting element of this saga is, perhaps, the efficiency with which Williams was dispatched. No thirty day investigation. No hearings. No reassignment to some other position. He didn’t get it done, even with a bloated budget (this is Washington, after all) so nice knowing you, hope you find work, and watch that doorknob on your way out.
Meanwhile the heads of the Secret Service, the VA, the EPA, and the IRS still have their jobs.
