Report: Fired Macha Critical Of Beane, Kotsay

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Ken Macha threw a couple of brush-back pitches at the Oakland A's on Saturday in his first comments since he was fired on Monday.

"The reason I was fired," he told the San Francisco Chronicle, "[was] there was too much interference."

According to a report in the paper, Macha said that general manager Billy Beane made on-field suggestions that made the manager uncomfortable. Specifically, he said the GM wanted Bobby Kielty to start against left-handed pitchers, but Macha started lefty Mark Kotsay in the playoffs against Minnesota's Johan Santana and Detroit's Nate Robertson and Kenny Rogers.

Via ESPN.com

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