Balta1701

Well at least we never have to hear anyone complain when protests involving African Americans shut down roads or highways after the last 2 days.

All right now I’m pissed. You think I don’t know those lyrics? Go check motherf***er!!!!! (Sarcasm) https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rem/itstheendoftheworldasweknowitandifeelfine.html

While we might want to, it’s a path to the cellar more often than not. Good sports owners hire good front office people and although they will do things like set budgets, when it comes to personnel decisions they stay out of the way and let the good front office people they hired do their jobs. Go look at places like the Cleveland Browns or Phoenix Suns, both have had big expose pieces in the last few years about how ownership was stepping in constantly to overrule their front office, change coaches, and pick different types of players. This is literally how those teams have been stuck in the basement, the owner thinks they know everything, overrules their baseball people, and when it starts backfiring they have no clue how they got there. If an owner wants to interfere, they are setting up the Cleveland Browns. A good businessperson hires good people, sets a professional tone, and does not push themselves into every single thing happening in their business, that’s why they hired good people. If Rick Hahn wants to hire AJ Hinch, he’s my GM he can do that, but I expect a couple things. He should conduct a series of interviews with a diverse group of candidates, present to me his decision making and why Hinch came out on top, and how he’s going to deal with the PR issues and questions he’s setting up. If Rick Hahn does that, then he can hire that guy because that’s to the letter what I pay Rick Hahn to do. If he can’t answer those questions, then it’s time to replace the GM because for some reason he’s no longer operating as a professional.

Why? Why is centrism for its own sake a good thing? It sets up one obvious problem - if one party lurches to an extreme beyond what was there previously, then the so-called centrists lurch with them. 13 or so years ago the conservative on this site and I discussed immigration and there was a lot in common, but he wanted to know why we were giving preferential treatment to people from a neighboring country rather than somewhere like Africa. Now we basically have shut down immigration from both those locations as that party lurched into racism, Bush’s immigration concepts would be laughed away as socialist amnesty designed to dilute the white gene pool by the center today. Or on health care for example, in the 1960s Richard Nixon offered an employer health care mandate for a way to reach universal coverage, Ted Kennedy turned it down because he wanted a single payer plan. In the 1990s, Hillary Clinton’s plan was based around a similar employer mandate and the conservatives opposed it as government run health care. Mitt Romney then passed an individual mandate while he was the Republican governor of Massachusetts, getting that state close to universal coverage. When Obama proposed a similar individual purchase mandate, it was labeled a socialist takeover of health care and a theft of all freedom. The republicans have lurched to one side and are now at the point where they believe that poor people should simply not have health care. How is a centrist position obviously correct when one side moves farther away and the other side chases them in the same direction?

Al Davis/Jerry Jones has been around football and it's people longer than most of us. I'm sure he feels well versed in its intricacies since he has watched literally thousands of games. I can't imagine most of us owning this club and sitting quietly while our favorite coach is passed over to hire someone else. I know it sounds reasonable to hire the people to run the team and let them do it. However, most owners take some role in these matters. See, works for the bad examples too.

What the hell? So for steroids it’s only bad if an entire team does it, but for the electronic system it’s worse if they just know about it? How’s that for a double standard. “Hey Mark what’s this bottle androstenedione in your locker? And why do you and Jose keep going into the toilet stall and dropping your pants? And what’s with all the acne? And why has the size of your head changed? Oh well, go hit some dingers!”

The phone incident during his last year of managing?

A month from now he might decide to accept that.

If he’s a free agent next year, I have no idea why he would try to come over into this mess. Go play one more year and sign after the lockout ends.

That is totally fair and I was in that group.

I simply tired hearing about how AJ Hinch is a cheater in a thread where we hired Mark McGwire's manager. If the cheating scandal is disqualifying for Hinch, then the decades of steroid abuse on his teams should be disqualifying for LaRussa. We don't know how many other teams were cheating, but we do know that Tony LaRussa couldn't have possibly cared less about his teams being clean.

At least it's the second worst, because Tony LaRussa's teams were absolutely loaded with people violating federal controlled substance laws openly jabbing needles into each other's butts in order to cheat, and that cheating scandal lasted basically his entire managerial career. But for some reason for the LaRussa defenders, that gigantic scandal is forgotten and Hinch's is the worst thing eva!

I'll go the opposite way - Rick Hahn is in a lose-lose situation. His job is not to put the best team on the field, his job is to find players that Tony LaRussa wants and who will work with Tony LaRussa, but he's also expected to win somehow. If he tries to do things that Tony LaRussa isn't ok with, he's already lost that fight. So, if the White Sox have success - it's LaRussa redeeming himself with his players. If things don't go well, then Rick Hahn should have done a better job of bringing in Tony LaRussa's players. Management isn't going to blame or fire Tony LaRussa, they'll blame Rick Hahn. Although, to be fair, he's spent 8 years pulling down 7 figure salaries in the most low-pressure, zero-accountability job in baseball, so I'm really not going to feel that bad for him if he suddenly now gets blamed when things don't work out after he should have gotten that blame for 7 years in a row.

Well they’re not bringing in an experienced outside GM unless he’s one of JRs buddies, but yes if Hahn isn’t going to be allowed to be the GM then it’s time to find one who is at least allowed to do the job and who has the confidence of ownership.

I’d say Steve Stone doesn’t have the temperament to manage these days, but then again look who the team just hired.

I’ll add a 4. Despite this being a $2 billion valued business with a major multi year revenue crisis, ownership still views the whole thing as their personal play toy. Thus, we can expect the clown show setting of stories and actions to continue.

Well an obvious next thing you’d want to hear from someone, either TLDR or a player, is some version of “yes the coach reached out to me yesterday and we spoke on the phone for a few minutes” (edit accordingly).

I figured so but I can’t get past the Tribune paywall so no way to know for sure.

Day 3. Any comment or congrats coach or anything from players in press today?

Well in that case would you like to see some very fine young white people chanting “Jews will not replace us”? Cause that’s a thing in this world too.

I’m sorry for so many reasons.

That’s great it starts with an earthquake; birds and snakes an aeroplane.

I never felt I had to use the ? music for Ricky. I feel like that should follow Ventura around the rest of his life, playing constantly. These two were both terrible hires, like LaRussa is, but each of them is an awful hire for a different reason. Blame RR for what he was bad at, like the bullpen moves that lost what, 1/12 of the games this season? But, they at least hit a cutoff man occasionally.

Like that slavery thing?

This year I think that’s 100% true. If Brad Hand is a top 5 reliever in the AL and no one will pay him $10 million, then Morton isn’t going to get the kind of money that will make him come back...especially if the league has no idea what it will look like in April yet. Of course if he really liked both Hinch and Keuchel he might have helped them out for a year, but....