Do we have the best front office in the NL? MLB?

[David]

Assuming it's Epstein/Hoyer/McLeod at the top.

[tfarks]

indubitably

[minnesotacubsfan]

not until we get Dusty back

[Guest]

And, if so, is this real life?

[tfarks]

babes in toyland chicago cubs style

 

Oh what, you didn't like babes in toyland

 

[expletive] you

[17 Seconds]

all tom ricketts does is steal gm's. all day.

[17 Seconds]

if the epstein stuff never happened and was never even considered, we'd all have probably been pretty pleased with hiring hoyer as GM, right? yea, well go ahead and throw theo epstein on top of that.

[Guest]

A better question... does any team have a better setup when you consider the combination of front office/resources/divisional resource-disparity?

 

 

Resources should only get better as they find more revenue streams.

[C.C.]

Might as well get Friedman while he's on a roll.

[bukie]

The Mets actually have a good front office now with Alderson, DePodesta and Ricciardi.

[Magnetic Curses]

The Mets actually have a good front office now with Alderson, DePodesta and Ricciardi.

 

i remember when i desperately wanted the cubs to fire hendry and hire depodesta.

[Magnetic Curses]

A better question... does any team have a better setup when you consider the combination of front office/resources/divisional resource-disparity?

 

 

Resources should only get better as they find more revenue streams.

 

there are no yankees in our division, nor is there a friedman. so we got that goin for us

[Sammy Sofa]

The Mets actually have a good front office now with Alderson, DePodesta and Ricciardi.

 

Yeah, if those guys are still together once the Mets have money again and a less horrible owner they could be monstrous.

[davell]

We may have the best, but at the absolute least, we're in the discussion. Considering we were possibly bottom third this time last year, it's a pretty damn pleasing and shocking turn of events.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

Mets have a pretty amazing group with Alderson, DePodesta, and Riccairdi.

 

Yankees have Cashman, Newman, Oppenheimer.

 

The Indians have Shapiro, Antonelli, and Chernoff.

 

Rangers have Ryan, Daniels, and Levine.

 

Dombrowski, Reid, Avila in Detroit.

 

Seattle has Zduriencik, McNamara, and and Kingston.

 

Schuerholz, Wren, and Coppolella in Atlanta.

 

Etc...Beane, Fuson, Forst....Hunsicker, Friedman, whoeverthirdguyis....

 

Plus, doesn't most everyone else in the FO suck or something like that? I think the owner is the trump card. Tom is putting money and work into this whole owning the Cubs project.

[Sammy Sofa]

Why in the holy blue [expletive] should I be impressed with Seattle's FO?

 

Seriously, I have no idea. They must be new, right?

[XZero771679666304]

And somehow Rosenbloom will spin this into Ricketts being a starry-eyed neophyte fumbling around in naivete.

 

Really, any people who have trashed on Tom Ricketts for not doing enough are due to eat a titanic helping of crow. Can you imagine now if he had canned Jimbo months ago (like many wanted) and hired whoever was available?

 

We sure wouldn't have the top three FO we're looking at now.

Edited October 22, 2011 by XZero77

[XZero771679666304]

Why in the holy blue [expletive] should I be impressed with Seattle's FO?

 

Seriously, I have no idea. They must be new, right?

 

Jack Z. was a rising star a couple years ago, but he has largely fizzled in Seattle.

[Sammy Sofa]

And somehow Rosenbloom will spin this into Ricketts being a starry-eyed neophyte fumbling around in naivete.

 

Really, any people who have trashed on Tom Ricketts for not doing enough a due to eat a titanic helping of crow. Can you imagine now if he had canned Jimbo months ago (like many wanted) and hired whoever was available?

 

We sure wouldn't have the top three FO we're looking at now.

 

Mike Murphy even trumped Rosenbloom last Saturday. I had the misfortune of hearing him rant how the hold up at the time was just yet another in a "long line of failures courtesy of Tom Ricketts. He then went on a rampage insisting that the "right way" to have handled this would have been for Ricketts to go to the Red Sox, ask for permission to talk to Theo, then offer them compensation and get them to agree to it...BEFORE HE EVEN TALKS TO EPSTEIN.

[erik316wttn]

Yes, and yes.

[Sammy Sofa]

Why in the holy blue [expletive] should I be impressed with Seattle's FO?

 

Seriously, I have no idea. They must be new, right?

 

Jack Z. was a rising star a couple years ago, but he has largely fizzled in Seattle.

 

That's an understatement.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

Why in the holy blue [expletive] should I be impressed with Seattle's FO?

 

Seriously, I have no idea. They must be new, right?

 

Yeah they're new/young.

 

Lots of good power pitching coming out of Seattle with Felix, Pineda, Paxton, and Hultzen. Plus they've got Ackley and that 1B who didn't do so well this year but is a good future talent (Smoak). They've also put together good defenses, but they can't score runs.

Edited October 22, 2011 by KingKongvs.Godzilla

[minnesotacubsfan]

I dont care. Has there ever been this level of FRONT OFFICE THIEVERY in any major sports venue before?

 

HOLY [expletive] [expletive] EPSTEIN HOYER AND MCLEOD

[Sammy Sofa]

I dont care. Has there ever been this level of FRONT OFFICE THIEVERY in any major sports venue before?

 

HOLY [expletive] [expletive] EPSTEIN HOYER AND MCLEOD

 

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

 

IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE GREAT OUT THERE THEN RICKETTS WILL HAVE THEM AND THEN FEAST ON THE LAMENTATION OF THEIR WOMEN.

[minnesotacubsfan]

Why in the holy blue [expletive] should I be impressed with Seattle's FO?

 

Seriously, I have no idea. They must be new, right?

 

Yeah they're new/young.

 

Lots of good power pitching coming out of Seattle with Felix, Pineda, Paxton, and Hultzen. Plus they've got Ackley and that 1B who didn't do so well this year but is a good future talent (Smoak). They've also put together good defenses, but they can't score runs.

 

they also trade their kids way too early. they suffer from lack of revenue