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So, do you consider Paul Sullivan a complete buffoon as well? He also had some negative comments on Kenney. Are you serious, Clark? You'd seriously take the opinion of [expletive] sportswriters over the guy that runs the [expletive] team? :shock:
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But what if he demands that Crane Kenney be fired? =D>
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I'm still not convinced Nowak isn't Phil Rogers, or Gordon Wittenmeyer or some other meathead writer (no offense Bruce) trying to gauge interest in Kenney being fired. To be honest, I'm half joking.
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B/c you are more in tune w/ the league than them? Id like to know what questions you asked Hendry during his press conference on Friday. B/c I know more about baseball than most of them, and understand how a president of the team, in charge of the business side, won't have any influence over a GM who reports directly to the owner, you know, the guy who hired the GM. It doesn't take someone who is a beat writer to figure that out. In fact, those beat writers, who are probably biased against Kenney because they like Hendry are probably in a worse position to be critical than I am, looking at it from the outside with no biases.
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Considering Ricketts said he's the one doing the hiring and the new GM will answer directly to him? No, I'm not concerned about Kenney in the least. BTW, are you Phil Rogers?
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The fact that Chicago baseball writers don't like Kenney actually makes me like the guy a little bit more.
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Tim's neighbor.
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I read that article earlier. The top four they list, and even a couple of the other possibilities would be fine. There were a couple towards the bottom that scare me.
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If he was lazy like Aramis, that wouldn't have happened.
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With Zambrano gone Cashner needs to be a solid contributor to the 2012 rotation. Dempster Garza Cashner Wilson Wells/Struck/FA/Trade I agree about Cashner, but I hadn't heard that Z got traded.
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Running a top 3 baseball market team with a top 5 payroll in a division full of small market teams? I can't imagine how there'd be interest in a position like that. Particularly after a press conference where the owner states flat-out that it's the GM's job to sign players and make baseball decisions and that the new GM will have carte blanche to hire whomever he wants. Did Ricketts really say that in regards to players or just personel, because if that extends to players, it makes me very happy, and if neither Prince Fielder nor Albert Pujols are in a Cubs uniform come next spring, our future GM will waste no time finding his way onto the [expletive] list. I don't know if you want to give an incoming GM that much power. I just fear another Soriano-type contract if you hire the wrong guy. I think the intent was to say that the GM could get who he wanted, but that major contracts, ie Soriano-esque, would have to be approved by Ricketts. It sure appeared to me that he meant that most things could be worked out by the GM, with Ricketts providing a "rubber stamp".
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How much will they be paying combined for Castro, Barney, Soto, Garza and Brett Jackson? $6-8 mil? I can't remember how much Garza is due next season.
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I beilieve his actual title is "Executive Vice President for Baseball Operations" for the Rays. Or "The guy who turned a terrible team into a perennial contender in the toughest division in baseball without a huge budget because he's good at his job" of the Rays That works too.
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Hit submit too soon. He also is the GM there.
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I beilieve his actual title is "Executive Vice President for Baseball Operations" for the Rays.
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I don't want to be too declarative, but if we get Andrew Friedman we might win the division every year for the next 15 years. We [expletive] better.
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I thought it was because I was tonguing his [expletive]. Why am I picturing Commandant Lassard right now?
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What is it specifically that you feel Kenny has done wrong? I don't understand some of the dislike for Kenney. The guy is a businessman, not a baseball guy, and from the sounds of it, is pretty good at his job. If there's a good GM under him, he'd be fine.
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I'd love to trade Johnson because there are some young OF's that I'd like to see get time in September. I really don't care if we move Pena or not, though. Someone has to play 1B. Hell, put Colvin there. He gets ABs without blocking someone like Jackson in September. Or go with Baker, who cares.
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Thanks jerk, my lieutenant just came into my office to see why the hell I was laughing so hard.
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This is an oversimplification, and wrong. Oversimplification, probably. How is it wrong though? There is nothing good accomplished by drilling people, which was my point. It would be dumb to do it too much. Just like it would be dumb to IBB too many guys, or dumb to always throw a strike. But there's nothing wrong with the occasional purposeful bean ball. It's a bad thing to go head hunting, but it's not dumb to occasionally hit an opposing hitter. If nobody else ever did it, then fine, no reason to ever do it. But that's not the case. And your comment about hockey fights is even more simplistic and wrong than the baseball comments. I disagree. I don't care if it's done once every ten years, there is no good place in baseball for beanballs. And my thoughts on fighting in hockey isn't wrong. It might be different than your views on it, but it isn't wrong. There's no place for it. I'd enjoy hockey even more if it was removed from the game, completely. Of course, that would require a change in attitude in the players, predominantly the North Americans. But if it's enforced at the lower levels, they'll learn it from an earlier age and not think it's a part of the game by the time they hit the NHL. That's really the only part of the NHL I don't like.
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I love hockey, but the fighting is stupid. The argument has been made that allowing fighting keeps hockey safer. Maybe you knew that. I know there is that arguement, but it's wrong.
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I love hockey, but the fighting is stupid.
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This is an oversimplification, and wrong. Oversimplification, probably. How is it wrong though? There is nothing good accomplished by drilling people, which was my point.
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Hmm, I didn't realize Z was Russian. ;)