southsider2k5

More excuses, please.

Um, duh. Did you pay any attention at all to his talk after firing Ricky? Same with the Tony hire. He did everything but say the Tony wasn't his idea.

I mean I obviously can't say one way or the other, but the timing is interesting to note.

Tony only gets credit, but not blame.

Since TLR told Yermin to stop trying, our offense has scored 11 runs in 51 innings, working out to a 1.94 era.

Considering he never played the OF before, he's been great out there. He's already better than Eloy.

Man the line up looks a lot better if Andrew Vaughn gets hot.

That would be a best case scenario for us.

Really? That Cishek account is a great troll.

More importantly, not everyone let's emotion get the best of them and walk out of a bad situation without a back up plan. We have no idea if Rick has put out feelers or something since then, or even if teams have begun contacting him thinking that he might be willing to jump now where he wasn't before.

But extraordinary claims like no one wanting him, despite a team being publicly revealed to be interested in giving him a significant promotion in the last year, aren't just making shit up? lol, ok.

If you think Kannapolis is off to a bad start...

But if you are under-performing your winning percentage by a margin over the longer haul, then you start to look at reasons why.

For the record, this is Game #1 of Tony LaRussa managing against the Cardinals, ever.

And let's be honest here, if fans can see what it is like working for JR, you KNOW other owners know it. If Rick could put this team together even having the yolks of Jerry's restrictions, imagine what he could do with some more breathing room.

But you are less likely to have them against good teams, and since we want to be a playoff team, learning how to beat good teams is kind of important.

Essentially if we aren't blowing teams out, we are pretty mediocre this year. <5 runs is 16-17 (.485). >5 runs is 10-2 (.833). Last year was 25-20 (.556) on the under, and 10-5 (.667) on the over. We just happened to have played a larger portion of our games as blow outs, probably corresponding to the weak schedule to start the season. (25% over 5 runs in 20, vs 26.7% in 21.)

Where is your proof?

For comparison, this is what they did last year.

Not to mention what the recycling rate is amongst pro sports executives going from team to team.

As always, thanks for these insights.

Well for obvious reasons almost all of that stuff isn't going to make the public eye, but I also remember there being about half a dozen teams in the past who wanted to interview him as GM when he was still assistant GM. But if you want to fight instead of get actual information, feel free to keep working that angle. Again.

Now that is pretty telling. We are under .500 in close games, despite having played a pretty crappy schedule so far. I wonder what the reason for that could be...

Just last year the Phillies had him on a list to interview for President of their organization.

If someone could break entangled particles as a form of travel or moving consciousness, they wouldn't have to send a physical self.