Joe Girardi won't be managing in 2007, so I offer these notes on the 2006 NL Manager of the Year as my final Girardi bash for at least a year (from the little I've heard, he's a pretty good commentator).  The Manager of the Year Award was created in 1983, and unless I missed something...    

• Joe Girardi is the only manager to win the award with a sub-.500 ballclub
• He is also the only on to win the award with a fourth place club or a club one spot out of last in its division
• 2006 represents the third consecutive year in which the NL Manager of the Year Award was presented to the manager of a team that posted a worse record than it did in the previous season.  Yet those three winners (Girardi 2006, Cox in 2004 & 2005) are the only ones besides Jim Leyland in 1992 who can say that (4 of 49 winners in both leagues).  
• Girardi is both the only winner not to manage for the same team in the year following his award-winning season and the only one not to manage anywhere in baseball in that following year.
• Girardi is an overrated tool

In other news, Jim Leyland won the AL Manager of the Year Award with a team that had a .667 winning percentage before the trade deadline and a .439 mark afterwards.  Without the crunching the numbers, I doubt that any of the previous winners could have come close to that mark.

Who should have won:

AL - Ron Gardenhire, Minnesota Twins

NL - Willie Randolph, New York Mets