Y2Jimmy0

You seem fun at parties. Who exactly should "run the sport"?

Well it seems as if the players were preparing for AJ Hinch

I hope Tony quits in spring training. It'd be hilarious. I wish there was a way for the players to win and Reinsdorf to lose somehow.

Oh yeah. He thought they were getting Hinch.

Benintendi sucks so I hope not.

I mean basically, yeah.

And she's 100% correct in that clip.

I made it up apparently.

First of all, I'm not your guy. I wrote an article last week about how La Russa was getting a bad rap. The hatred is overblown. That doesn't mean it's a good move though. These things aren't mutually exclusive. La Russa managing wouldn't be the end of the world for fans because the team is really good and managers don't matter that much. Hahn is getting overruled if this happens and he should go elsewhere. That part is also true. I'm not really sure what is so difficult to understand.

Beats me. My info in regards to big league team is spotty as best as some posters have pointed out. I'm gonna sit this one out from here.

Tony La Russa is getting a bad rap in some areas. He's not some dinosaur traditionalist. He'll use all the analytics used in the modern game. He always has. I have no doubts that he can manage from the dugout and be fine. He's also dealt with lots of players. If Tony can coach Ricky Henderson, he can coach Tim Anderson. My issue is it essentially would be a short-term commitment. It makes more sense to find a guy that could be here fora decade instead of hiring Tony. Also, regardless of what some posters are willfully choosing to believe, it suggest disharmony in the ranks. Rick Hahn didn't have the end of season press conference, describe his ideal manager, zero in on his buddy AJ Hinch and then be totally fine with the owner swooping in and hiring his buddy. Will Hahn leave? Probably not. There are only 30 GM jobs and he has one but it makes thing even harder to decipher going forward. We never know who is responsible for which moves and that will absolutely continue. At this point, if Jerry wants to run the team, he should get on the phone with the agents and start working on free agent deals and trades. He apparently doesn't need a General Manager. That's my issue. Tony being the manager on a random Tuesday is the least of my issues with this.

I've never heard that specifically other than all the reports that you are all seeing and Harold's eyeballs earlier.

I'm telling you what happened and you keep disregarding it. I'm not sure what the next step is here. It's apparently you just willfully believing whatever you'd like to believe.

Loyalty? What loyalty? The dude was just named Executive of the Year by his peers and he's not allowed to choose the club's next manager which is part of his job description.

I don't really give a shit what you're buying or not buying.

No shot on the latter.

Hahn didn't pick La Russa. That's not true at all. Hahn got his nuts cut off and he should go elsewhere ASAP.

Yeah. He's afraid to hire Hinch because of the "cheating scandal". Jerry Reinsdorf is a fucking coward. A short-sighted one at that.

He’s likely quiet because he deals in logic. He thought it would be Hinch. Jerry Reinsdorf is cheap. Everyone knows it. I didn’t know he was a fucking coward too.

Either would be fine with me. He’s held the organization back for my entire life.

Kenny Williams has no desire to do the General Manager job again.

The best was when La Russa traded for Luis Alejandro Basabe instead of Luis Alexander Basabe.

If we are going to be sanctimonious over cheating, we shouldn't want La Russa either.

Hahn wants AJ Hinch.

For two years maybe. Or until Tony decides that 200 baseball games is just too tough at this stage of his life. I have no doubt that TLR would be fine managing in the dugout. The fact that they would sign up for a short-term marriage is very puzzling though.