southsideirish71

Big fan of this guy now.

We were told money would not be an issue when the time was right. So what bargain basement guys are coming on board.

Hi young fella, Smitty's the name. 3rd base coach. you can now go to home. Stop with that crazy loud music.

So Mr Bauer, Dave Duncan here. Didnt anyone tell you throwing those weighted plyo balls are going to hurt you. Also those drones might hurt you, keep them at home. Now lets talk about your two seamer.

Do you really think that TLR would have a replacement on his bench. His ego wont allow for that. His coaching staff will be filled with old dusters and guys from yesteryear.

I would amend this to say, Hahn was told to interview him. And TLR said he had the passion back. JR then stepped in and sealed it. Hahn didnt object. Hahn likes getting paid for work.

Well unless JR is immortal this type of nonsense will self correct. See Blackhawks.

The cooper firing at the same time now makes sense. Clearing space for Duncan.

This is like the VP of HR at a company saying sure the best candidate for the job was Billy, the 24 year old new VP of Sales who happens to have the same last name as the owner of the company. Maybe he is the best candidate for the job, but in reality its probably because the owner just got his way.

I hope that happens, because Anderson demanding a trade because TLR tells him to take his kneeling act into the clubhouse is another possibility.

Lets hire Tommy Lasorda because age doesnt matter.

How does any of this sound like a 76 year old man who hasnt managed in over 10 years. If this hire is made, Hahn didnt make it. And when he talks about how this was his guy in the presser, he is trying to keep his job.

Ask the Diamondbacks what a few years can do to an organization. When he gets hired he is basically a GM.

The only one that this would happen to is named Hahn. TLR is here until he decides to leave. We have taken the Don Cooper pitching coach for life and made it worse. If that was possible.

When they purge the farm to go for a one year window.

So we had a GM who spent a few years assembling a long term run. The minute we get to the point of this team being ready to compete for a long time our geriatric owner decides to over rule the GM to hire his bestie who is also geriatric. The bestie will have all sorts of powers and will be for all intensive purposes unfireable. Decisions will be made in the short term that will have massive long term consequences. You might as well have Kenny steering the ship now because the chips are all in now if TLR is on the team. I cant wait for TLR to be making GM level decisions on this team. That should go well. Next up Guaranteed Rate to start peddling reverse mortgages as part of our new identity.

Its so Jerry Reinsdorf to hire a geriatric manager during a pandemic when the number 1 at risk group is geriatrics.

My father was always on his mental game until he got to his late 70s. It started slipping and then in his 80s it just went off the rails. This idea that age is just a number is insane. For every well directed energetic 84 year old there are 100 ones that have a hard time remembering what happened yesterday. We have a young team and we cant be changing managers in 2 more years because Tony gets overwhelmed with the job. In the end we will have to wait for the reaper to take care of this one. This same owner allowed someone to destroy a basketball dynasty. I have zero faith that this gets fixed until he is not involved in this anymore.

Dont know if this one makes sense. And his recent championship experience? His managerial experience at all. The time to hire guys who are learning on the job was about 3 years ago.

Zaleski makes sense. I would like that. Curt Hasler ( fixed the name spelling ) is basically Don Cooper. They have similar beliefs and is not a move in a different direction.

How about another angle here. If Jerry gets his guy you basically neuter Rick Hahn. What if Larussa wants to win today and decides to go to Jerry and go all in and torch everything that was built to win today not for 4 more years. Does Rick have a say? How do you ever fire TLR. How do you resolve any disputes when he can go to Dad and get you overruled. This is a dangerous precedent.

I think we found greg's burner account.

Who the hell is fighting for his services. There is no TLR market outside of us.

Then that could change personnel decisions. Short term deals for older trusted players, trading younger players for win now impact players. God they could completely destroy this rebuild for one last shot in the pan.