When Domonic Brown was promoted by the Philadelphia Phillies from Triple-A, manager Ryne Sandberg said all of the right things about Brown being given a chance to prove himself. Inside, though, he was seething because Brown was never Sandberg’s kind of player and he, like most of the fans, had seen enough of Brown.

So it was not surprising that coinciding with a week of living with Brown as his starting right fielder, Sandberg decided that being manager of the Phillies was not the right job for him. Again, Sandberg said all of the right things to the media in his resignation press conference, but being force-fed, Brown again was probably the final straw. Sandberg liked guys who were players like he was, a high-end talent who squeezed the most of out of his athletic ability. Brown never was that and never will be and the Phillies calling up a player who could hit no more than two homers and .257 against Triple-A competition was too much. Brown, who many think has high-end ability, never seems to care when he is between the white lines, and that is why Sandberg never liked him.

In his first game post-Sandberg, Brown was being Brown when he half-heartedly reached up and dropped a fly ball in left early in the game that led to two runs. He also became the final out by turning third base in that game, a 5-2 loss to the Washington Nationals. Brown was being Brown by not thinking when he was tagged out on a rundown to end the game. The Phils had a rally going, with two runners on, and Brown’s lazy turn at third was inexcusable, but par for the course considering Brown’s history with the Phillies.

It was a good thing Sandberg was not around to see that or his ticker might have given out. Had there not been other straws before Brown, Sandberg might have remained with the organization, but Brown was the latest example of GM Ruben Amaro Jr. meddling in Sandberg’s business. Sandberg benched slugger Ryan Howard for three games in the middle of last summer in favor of Darin Ruf and would have happily allowed Howard to remain on the bench longer if it were not for Amaro, who ordered Howard back into the lineup.

Howard was not Sandberg’s kind of player, either, and now the manager can move on to an organization that believes it is the manager’s, not the GM’s job to make the lineup card out every day. Only then will Sandberg be able to show what kind of manager he can be.

Mike Gibson is a Phillies writer for www.RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @papreps , “Like” him on Facebook or add him to your network on Google.