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There was a follow-up question on this. He is still rookie eligible and was bumped off of the list

Especially since pretty much all of our dev staff is the same.

I am impressed the news came two weeks earlier than I figured.

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DFA? That puts him into Ol Yeller territory for most teams.

I said what I said.

Probably still a better hitter than most of this line up today.

Which is a whole different problem and one that would also deserve an explanation to fans.

"Of attendance" was the rest of that sentence

Right, as you were lobbing insults in your previous post. Run along then.

These two sentences back to back. Just perfect. One minute we should know better, and the next we should listen to his "perfect" interview.

It also doesn't jive with their actions last year. If they REALLY thought this was a 110 loss team in the 2024 off-season, why the hell didn't they trade Luis Robert at his absolute peak value to try get players on this full rebuild timeline? Either it is negligence by the GM, or he thought he could do something quick to win some games and get some good well. Which is it?

Because let's be honest here. If we were ACTUALLY rebuilding from the ground up, Chris Getz would have been just as unemployed as everyone else responsible for this mess.

Look, you might like getting talked to like you are stupid, but most people don't. If my kid gets up and lies to my face, I usually give them one chance to reconsider and offer them an out to stop digging the hole. As often as this happens, they have either chose to keep lying to us, or were so completely disconnected from reality, they believed what they were saying. Honestly, I am not even worse which is better, but neither is very good for a relationship with the fans. Either get up and say you were wrong, or tell me the truth.

Again, fans expectations aren't equal to what we were told by management. The fact that fans already knew this team would suck (well most of us did anyway) and they STILL tried to feed us the company line is what makes it even worse, not better. This excuse doesn't help at all. It makes the insult even more grave.

The entire rest of the world could see it.

Well, there goes our closer.

I think you finally got it.

The way they roster built and then massively churned the first half of the season told me they thought maybe they could luck their way into mediocrity. The tone totally changed after the losses piled up. Either they lied to us early, or late.

Sure. Which is why guys like Jerry and Getz getting up and either lying to the public, or completely delusional, is a point. They COULD have just gotten up and been honest from the beginning. But they didn't. They are the ones who should be shamed.

Wasn't Chris Getz the one who spent time talking about how weak the AL Central was?

Instead they either lied to, or flat out insulted the fan base and set them out as enemies not to be believed.

Scratch Vaughn from the list.