southsider2k5

3rd wave? Nah, the first wave never ended.

MLB doesn't want dead people on their watch. It isn't difficult. Why waste lives on a sport?

Look around baseball. This happens to every team, and to tons of pitchers. Baseball is hard, and pitching is the hardest of all.

Only if he is ready to retire. I mean Greg Walker got rehired after a million different pronouncements that he would never work again. Don Cooper is 50 times the coach that Greg Walker was.

It was literally blocked by the State of Illinois.

There is a really long history about gambling in baseball. Like this has been the penalty for a full century now. And there will always be that distinction. Plus cheating ton win will never be equal with bringing the integrity of the game into question.

Depends on if he wants to work again. If not, he will burn it down.

He clarified later that he wasn't talking about just managers.

No timeline announced as people on their list may still be playing games according to Hahn today.

That's just it. He wasn't pessimistic or optimistic. It was a non-answer.

Unless they are going to substitute a managerial change for spending money. When asked about spending next year he didn't really take a convincing stand either for or against more spending. It was definitely a wait and see answer.

It wasn't. He flat out said they weren't limited to just managers.

Possibly relevant.

He did not limit this to managers.

Rick made it clear that adding pitching this winter was job #1 for him, and he didn't think it would be a big deal to the next guys down the line.

They will almost certainly.

I think that was taken the wrong way. I think he was recongnizing that big data is changing the game. In the same breath he said that he did the work on arbitration hearings early on in his career, yet today it was past him because of how much more detail happens in them. I took it as self-reflection and recognition that he couldn't do this forever. Also again, not a single reporter asked him about what he thought about last years signings, so he didn't spend anytime on it. 95% of the call was answering reporter questions. He didn't really do any type of free style where he just made up topics to talk about. The only thing he talked about before questions was Ricky. Everything else was in answer to reporter question.

And they tied the season series against them.

Or someone like Dallas.

Seriously. Steve Stone has forgotten more about baseball than you or I will ever know. If you really want to sit here and judge HIS qualifications, why are we ignoring yours in the process? What makes you qualified to know how a front office works, more than someone like Steve Stone is? Nothing.

This from a guy who is barely qualified to post on a message board about baseball.

Its AJ. Pierzynski (j/k)