“It’s not a real good feeling knowing there’s a target on our back,” McLaren said Monday in a telephone interview. “I don’t even read the computer anymore. Those blogs will eat you up, no matter what.”

Meaning, I guess, that McLaren used to read the blogs. Weird.

“We aren’t firing anyone”
Later that week…”We decided to let Mac go” ROFL. That would be just sweet. I hope they don’t stop there though. Kick out bavasi, Armstrong and Lincoln too. Obviously Lincoln is the hardest to fire, but Bavasi and Armstrong aren’t, so get them out of here too.

I dunno if anyone is thinking about replacements…but what about Jay Buhner or Mark Maclemore. Obviously niether have any experience which bit us in the butt with Mac. But man Jay Buhner would just be awesome.

These guys are invisible to Joe Random Baseball Fan, and probably to the ownership as well.

In the unlikely event several of these guys were interviewed and/or selected the press and the entire fan base (except ussm) would do a collective “WHO?”.

You hit the nail on the head: nobody knows what to look for. I don’t. And you have offered no names…. (hint).

There are no stat-head friendly FO guys available that I can se

If you mean the kind of new-breed all-the-information-I-can-get-including-stats GM candidates, there are a ton. They’re just not bandied about as openly as the retread guys.

Look at Tampa: that whole front office is composed of people who got almost no ink ever, and they’ve done a great job turning that team around.

You can find good people if you know what to look for.