Both thought it would be big news if father and son fired their manager on the same night.

The 1999 season hasn't even started, and they have changed managers, becoming perhaps only the third team to fire their manager in spring training.

However, the manager can be fired by a majority vote of the council at any time.

No manager, alive or dead, was ever fired so early.

When the manager of the store was fired, he quit.

When another team fired its manager, those other teams then did likewise.

The owner would fire his manager if he didn't set it up that way.

Castro did not fire his manager for losing the game in Havana.

It is entirely possible that if one team had fired its manager sometime this season, others would have followed.

Their jobs are less in jeopardy than his; only the manager gets fired for a loser.