Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
He pisses me off. He is supposedly a "good" baseball man, when compared to other owners. But, the son appears to be an idiot. And he's the one running the day to day stuff, right?
That seems impressive that a low life org like us that we landed someone 2 years removed from the top executive on baseball. So why is not a good thing? He didn't really build those teams or what? Why are you down on a guy 2 years removed from executive of the year awards?
Contracts are both up for Mo and the idiot manager net year, right?
Why isn't this a situation where Dewitt hires this guy to do the deep dive into what's wrong with the minors? Who's the problem? What needs to be implemented.
Then in 2025 Bloom becomes GM and he brings in his own manager and minor league staff thats on board with his modernization of the minors?
I wanted Mo gone like 4-5 years ago. So him not being fired sucks big time but we wanted Pioli gone years before he was actually fired.
Zaidi won it. And got fired today. Mo didn't and kept his job.
As for the rest - it's all bullshit.
It's the public face they put on cutting payroll. That's all. They didn't talk about any vision - just a new facility in Jupiter.
They didn't talk about the current big league coaching staff - they just threw Laroque under the bus.
They didn't discuss a strategic vision, just threw out platitudes and wined about the sports media landscape while assuring us that a 'direct to consumer' app (read PPV) is on the way and sports gambling will save the bottom line.
They didn't apologize for stasis. They instead insisted that things are better than we realize.
Everything was bullshit.
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Originally Posted by Rams Fan:
And had non-winning seasons the other 4 seasons of his tenure.
And maybe he deserved to lose his job.
Point being that Mozeliak does as well. Publicly and without remorse.
And Shildt deserves an even louder public apology.
Instead we get a Mozeliak farewell tour and inevitable red jacket ceremony.
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