southsider2k5

I won't argue that they picked the right guy, but the concept of what they did and how they tried to do it was 100% correct.

It isn't popular to say, but I am OK with what they did in the EE signing. It didn't work out, but instead of trying to force a guy who might not have been ready into a role, they spent only money to sign a guy that carried no obligation past one season, and still had guys like Collins and Mercedes, as well as Vaughn as back up options if they wanted to use them. I wish they had done more EE style moves in this off season to give this squad more insulation and protection against injury and failures.

Rick Hahn's initial press conference after the hire makes a LOT more sense that he was blindsided by this hire, than if he was a part of this process from day one. He was more standoff-ish and very intentionally separating himself from the process in his initial talk.

I am not sure if we ran through this same off season 100 times, that they could have done much more damage than was done to the Sox reputation since the World Series.

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Maybe we should get a lot of Texans on TV claiming that he doesn't speak for Texans as a whole? Oh wait, that is for a different occasion.

Back surgery.