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It's a strictly either/or thing for me, for immersion reasons. It's two completely different jobs that by rights no one man should be able to do at the same time, so there's a verisimilitude aspect to it - but perhaps more importantly, it'd feel lonely and stressful to have to be both. There's no one you can blame - as a manager you can only do as well as the roster allows, so if you do poorly you can always blame the GM for not giving you proper baseball players. As the GM, you can shake your fist at the manager for not realizing the potential of your magnificent roster; if necessary, you can fire him, which always gives a cathartic sort of pleasure.
In an online league, of I were to approach the game from a strictly competitive angle, it'd be ideal to be both, but OOTP lives and dies by the roleplaying aspect for me, so I suppose it really comes down to the verisimilitude thing again. Being two people and governing the franchise as some sort of baseball deity just doesn't feel right.
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