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Actually, looking over what the club needs more than anything else, a quality DH, I say allow Dunn to pick the new manager. Dunn hitting .265 with his usual power would add more to this club than any manager.

I want a manager who successfully redefines how the game should be played today, not following the crowd.

Ozzie was working in a situation that happens to a lot of employees, you don't get along with your boss. And as been noted in other threads, they may never have gotten along. On top of that your boss continues to send employees into your department that are not always what you ask for, or what you need. Most of your employees seem to like you, but your boss is their boss too, and that conflicts loyalties on their part. Meanwhile there is another company that has tried to hire you several times. Your boss doesn't seem to want you, this other company wants you a lot, and you sit there. Frustrated. You hate the company you work for, but love most of the people you are working with. You even love the owner, even though he isn't coming to your rescue. Then it appears there is an end in sight. However it will happen after the company that really wants you already has someone. Your boss is going to get his final revenge, you will be unemployed with no obvious job opportunity available. You do like having an income, the awards and s*** you earned while working for the company are nice, and you'd like to earn a few more, but money in the bank pays for food, raiment, and shelter. So what's your only way out? ----------- I always predicted Oz would be fired for some Al Campanis type comment. I easily see his career going in one of two directions. A Tony La Russa type, a long time in Florida, or a spectacular explosion of his mouth. Either way, thank you Oz. You left a season or two too late.

X - Why I sometimes visit this thread and slowly back away.

Just say the word and let's go. Do you know anything about mountains?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2011 -> 08:00 AM) Texas, St Louis, or Milwaukee. No one else. That's my list along with the Tigers. I know I'm a minority by I usually cheer for the AL Cent champ. Seems like there is some bragging rights for playing in a division tough enough to produce the ws champ.

By the end of the nomination process, Dems will love Perry more than the GOP faithful. In the general he will pull more Dem voters away than Obama will pull Rep voters away.

BTW Hawkaroo, every team doesn't win 60 games, the Astros say hey!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 28, 2011 -> 09:16 PM) but the point that they're not really creating any jobs if they're refusing to hire the unemployed but are instead "job shufflers" taking advantage of a depressed labor market still stands. It creates an opening and when the merry go round stops, someone new has to get on. It's just not at the largest firms. It may be with a start up, or a smaller firm.

BTW, for our last teacher opening we had over 300 applicants. The applicants that received an interview had to work their butts off to get noticed.

Tex > Tigers > TB > Yankees Cards > I don't care

When you have this many to sort through, going with someone who is currently employed saves time by having a solid reference. The references from former employers are basically crap now because of the various laws and potential law suits from negative information an employer can give. Additionally, if they are in the same industry they may bring with them current knowledge of what their old employer is doing. They may have fresh customer contacts. In the back of interviewers minds, who have little time and many applicants is why has the rest of the world passed on this person?

f***, why hire a person, all we need is Have the guys check the screen and go with whatever is statistically best.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Sep 28, 2011 -> 07:11 PM) The other constant is Kenny Williams. This organization doesn't do a good job in identifying good offensive players. Yeah, bringing in guys like Thome and Dunn, based on hall of fame numbers, proves that.

As an announcer I hope. I was worried he was being hired as the manager

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 28, 2011 -> 03:02 AM) I literally laughed out loud at this line from that piece. The author clearly hasn't followed our team the last two seasons. I mean, you seriously could not write a more inaccurate sentence than that if you tried. There have been FAR more personal squabbles (many over relatively meaningless issues) than winning in the last six years. They believe Oz gives then the best chance of winning and are willing to tolerate the personal squabbles. It seems pretty accurate to me.

Awesome. I hope he is resigned and ends his career as a Sox player.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 26, 2011 -> 10:21 AM) Hmmm, Maybe I should get down there so that I can get in front of the line to open up a Rick Perry campaign office in NWI? http://www.indgop.org/rickperry/ You're gonna love him when he has the nomination!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 26, 2011 -> 07:45 AM) Of course it is "worse". They aren't taking capital from the current "investors" and paying it out to the former "investors". Isn't this how the whole government is funded? We cut taxes, run a deficit, and "somebody else" pays the deficit plus interest.

If I was KW hiring I'd be asking the candidates if they would want to retain Coop. Of course it is a trick question, I wouldn't hire someone who wanted to get rid of Coop.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 04:15 PM) I can see why, with the track record, you'd insist on keeping Koop regardless of a manager's opinion. The other, I dunno why. Maybe the White Sox have been doing some tampering as well. If I was Coop, I'd turn it down until I knew who my new boss would be.

The new manager should have had an opportunity to at least voice his opinion.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Sep 27, 2011 -> 08:40 AM) I really thought Sox could of done better than this IMO, but then again it is KW at the helm. Really? For a manager? Four times in major league history a manager was traded. Four times.

ZZZzzzzing when oZZZZie was leaving.

I have a small Viz monitor / TV that has performed very well. I also like my Sony. But I'm not too critical about TVs, it just isn't that important.