Macha out in Oakland per Gammons...and back in!

[treebird]

macha is a horrible manager. this makes no sense.

 

and don't say poor tree. say poor zachary d manprin.

[USSoccer]

macha is a horrible manager. this makes no sense.

 

and don't say poor tree. say poor zachary d manprin.

 

I feel so badly for him right now. He must be getting ready to jump off the bay bridge.

 

imagine if Hendry let Dusty go, only to bring him back. That's how he must feel right now...

[series65cubsfan]

macha is a horrible manager. this makes no sense.

 

and don't say poor tree. say poor zachary d manprin.

 

I feel so badly for him right now. He must be getting ready to jump off the bay bridge.

 

imagine if Hendry let Dusty go, only to bring him back. That's how he must feel right now...

 

If Hendry let Dusty go, only to bring him, think how we would feel! :evil: :cry:

[treebird]

Zach's taking this even worse than I thought.

 

 

Link

 

Ugh.

 

Sorry, you'll have to give me a few hours. I have a lot of thoughts going everywhere at once.

 

It's like the girl you're interested in finally broke up with the guy who date raped her and beat the [crap] out of her for three years, while you consoled her and counseled her all the while - only to have her ask him back ten days later.

 

And they took off for Las Vegas with the $1000 you gave her to move out on her own.

 

In your car.

 

And your wallet was in the front seat.

 

And they hit your dog as they sped off into the night.

 

And the dog is not dead, but he's going to have to be put down.

 

Here you were trying to give her space and play it cool.

[David]

But the notion that Beane is "smarter" is without any support, IMO.

 

If you gave the two an SAT or something, I'd put my money on Beane.

 

Good for Beane. :roll:

 

I would too. Beane appears to be the much smarter guy, from what I know.

 

As for who is a better GM, I don't think there's any question. Look at what Beane has done with a much lower payroll (and this year nobody can say the A's success was due to the big 3, and make no mistake, 2005 was a good year for the A's, playoffs or no playoffs)...

 

Besides, even if you do attribute Beane's earlier success to Zito, Mulder, and Hudson, Hendry hasn't been able to achieve the same success with his similar blessing of 3 young stud, relatively cheap pitchers.

 

I'm hoping Hendry proves me wrong, but I would trade Hendry for Beane in a second... and I'd give up any of our prospects along with him. :wink:

 

I'm not sure that the question here was who is the better GM; I think that's fairly obvious. Whether he's smarter or not is only relevant in terms terms of his abilities as a GM, though... So, as a GM, he definitely is smarter..

 

 

(and I agree with goony in that I think he probably would score higher on any real test of intelligence, not that it's really pertinent here)