Comments on: The Worst Run Organization In Baseball

By: stoyboy

stoyboy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:16:09 +0000

Now after this post, do you know why FA don’t want to come to this organization?

By: Brian Rust

Brian Rust — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:49:56 +0000

He doesn’t need to be “fired,” and there doesn’t need to be a “coup.” High executives with a long record of dedicated service are not subject to such ugly circumstances, especially in a business environment influenced by Japanese culture.

I’m just saying that I consider a Lincoln departure to be a likely outcome of frank and honest discussion involving Lincoln and the board which will include frequent occurences of the phrase “empty seats.”

By: downwarddog

downwarddog — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:45:57 +0000

It’s fun to think these people could be embarrassed by failure, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Zeroes is this: nothing bad that results from the actions of the rich and powerful in this country is ever their fault. There’s always someone else to blame. The buck can always be passed. Even if these jokers do get fired, they’ll land somewhere else and keep doing what they’re doing. Look at Bavasi – dude didn’t exactly have to pound the pavement looking for a new gig.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:30:39 +0000

Lincoln would need to be fired by Nintendo — the minority owners have 0 say in how the team runs. There’s no coup possible as things stand now.

By: Brian Rust

Brian Rust — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:17:35 +0000

As I said when Bavasi was fired, I believe the LincStrong era is coming to a close. The embarassment is simply too great NOT to be dealt with by the board of directors.

By: skyking162

skyking162 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:07:50 +0000

The Twins should look almost as dumb in all of this as the Mariners. Why the hell would a low payroll team with boatloads of young, talented pitching want a below-average starting pitcher that’s overpaid? If the Mariners had dumped Washburn on them, what do they do with him?

By: PADJ

PADJ — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:41:04 +0000

After sleeping on it, I’m left with the conclusion that the Mariner FO stuck to their demand of a player from the Twins 40 man roster because of their stunning player evaluation abilitites.

After all, if someone is paying a player @ $10 million a year, then that means the player is really really good. Right?

They blew it on evaluating Washburn’s talent when they gave him the contract they did, and since there hasn’t been any significant difference in who’s running the ship (LP was stalking the halls somewhere during this time) they overestimate him now.

Yeesh…

By: pinball1973

pinball1973 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:02:14 +0000

I’ve mostly stayed well out of it, since the trade for Bedard (and that was something vaguely defendable even to me.)

The ownership also clearly hold their fans in utter contempt, even more than is typical for MLB, whatever they say in public (and whatever pretense they make to themselves.)

I’ll drop back regularly only when the rubbish at the top goes, as there is no hope before that – the latest inexplicable idiocy served, in rubbing its hew-and-improved super-radium salt into you sad, still-faithful fans of the team, to prove that proven beyond doubt fact.

Go Ichiro!

By: melo_otto15

melo_otto15 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:57:13 +0000

I’m thinking we should fire everyone, change our logo, change half of our name (if possible?), and change our colors slightly, and then we have the complete recipe to go from worst to first!

By: jteckmann

jteckmann — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:37:59 +0000

#58 – as I understand it, the M’s leverage comes from the fact that they don’t have to waive Wash again. They’ve shown the Twins they’ll cut their nose off to spite their face and keep Wash around rather than take the salary dump. So basically they make a handshake deal beforehand, “send us X in a separate transaction, and we’ll waive Wash so you can claim him again”