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Group think can be dangerous.

@The Beast I agree. I'm hoping for a Phil Jackson / Tex Winter type situation.

I'm interested in knowing how many were great at their first stop versus that first stop is a stepping stone.

So the 36 year old GM with no previous GM experience hired the 51 year old finalist with no previous HC experience. A couple names that are being bounced around for OC have no previous OC experience. When did the Bears become a starter franchise? I like seeing an opportunity to bring new, fresh ideas and perhaps reinvent how organizations function. But, it also seems like a risk.

I'm predicting he winds up as a MLB coach someday.

Yes it is about money. The per player/personel share is close to $300,000 most years. That's a nice check for most players and members of the organization. But I can see the point that the players are already earning a lot of money so why pay them more by adding teams into the playoffs.

I'm underwhelmed, but a lot really depends now on who comes in as OC.

Lol. But you are still in favor of expanded playoffs?

And the players on that 85 win team can go to hell instead of playing in a playoff series. Better they tank and win 60. Drop eight games from the regular season, they are meaningless anyways, and add another round of playoffs. I'd much rather watch playoff baseball at the end of September than meaningless regular season crap.

I thought we had playoffs to determine who the better or lesser teams are. It seems if a "mediocre" team wins a playoff series from a "superior" team, one of those team's ratings were wrong.

Great point about being experienced in being interviewed. Hopefully someone in the organization can adjust for that. It is a different skill set than actually being a head coach. Having someone on the hiring side with experience could help.

But you do want playoffs? Why more than two teams? I enjoy an upset. I don't mind if the lesser team prevails.

I wish I understood better how coordinators work with the head coach. I'm my mind the head coach should hire great coordinators and kind of get out of the way. So here I'm more concerned with who the HC brings in as the OC than what they are bringing in themselves. Am I way off in that?

I'm in complete agreement with @Balta1701

So if a top seed can't beat a team that sneaks into the playoff they should be eliminated. What matters is playing head to head with the season on the line.

Right. And there will always be someone willing to drop a billion or two to own a team. How about using the same logic with players . . . don't like playing for $600,000? Cool, quit and go make more somewhere else.

So you can raise salaries without raising cost?

How is a raise to the minimum wage not an easy verification of a cost increase?

I'm talking in general terms. Any forced increase can put someone from being able to afford something to not. But it really just means it's time to find a buyer and cash out.

I kind of understand his point. Those of us that own homes, if suddenly the house cost 3x to own, because of taxes, or required minimum maintenance, we would have concerns.

Why have playoffs at all? The Team with the best regular season record is the champion. Playoffs diminish the regular season and make it meaningless.

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I use the my rule of 13. If I can stand there and tell a thirteen year old that this is someone the game should be proud of without a bunch of excuses, he's past the first test. I can't do that with guys like Bonds, Rose, Mac, Ortiz, etc. I'd much rather stand there and tell a kid about Baines or Mark. They added to the legend of MLB. The game doesn't have to make excuses for them. /Off soap box for the day.

This year I'm just focusing on Minnie finally getting in. There are so many players I can go to Cooperstown to celebrate I won't waste time at Ortiz' display.

I'm just repeating the lame ass excuses from some of the baseball writers.