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By: Breadbaker

Breadbaker — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:23:34 +0000

I suspect that Chuck considers that the Theory of Sunk Costs involves treasure ships.

Seriously, both Chuck and Howard need to stfu. They aren’t winning over casual fans with talk like this and they’re making themselves look like the idiots they are among anyone who knows anything about baseball.

By: RallyFried

RallyFried — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:15:40 +0000

I figure we are looking pretty good for at least 6 more years of sub .500/3rd or 4th place finishes if Chuck retains his job during this rebuild.

Chuck please step down. The results of your baseball philosophy don’t warrant the privilege of getting to make the kind of decisions necessary to turn this team around

By: Gomez

Gomez — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:30:12 +0000

If that’s the laughable case, then whatever. Such a GM can still easily land somewhere else.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:58:43 +0000

Gomez, it’s pretty likely the new GM will be required to sign an post-firing-zero-defamatory-statements clause in his contract.

That contract will probably be only slightly less restrictive than his actual working conditions…

By: Sentinel

Sentinel — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:47:05 +0000

Wow, another dark comment. The FO has to go, but it’s getting a little macabre in here.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go throw up a little bit.

By: Steve T

Steve T — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:32:07 +0000

This is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard. He blocked the trade? When he asks GM candidates what steps they would take, they should start by shooting him in the face. CHUCK MUST GO.

By: edgar for mayor

edgar for mayor — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:21:27 +0000

What did we do to deserve this?

By: Gomez

Gomez — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:20:37 +0000

GM candidate’s step by step process to fixing Mariners.

1. Get interview.
2. Lie lie lie lie lie through your teeth and tell Howie/Chuck everything they could ever want to hear.
3. Get job.
4. Hire doppleganger and give Howie/Chuck doppleganger’s phone number. Give doppleganger orders to give Chuck the ‘yessir everything you say sir’ treatment when called.
5. Run team effectively.
6. When Chuck approaches you for insubordination, point out team’s newfound success and depth, and take appropriate credit. Watch Chuck stammer as his feeble brain short-circuits in face of logic and facts.

Caveat: If fired anyway, go to media and bury Howie/Chuck’s closed-minded stupidity. Ownerships with functioning brain cells will not hold this against you.

By: joser

joser — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:16:29 +0000

It’s a preposterous stance to take (only “value” back).

The problem, and we’ve seen this before in just about every aspect of the FO’s incompetence, is their sheer incomprehension of what constitutes “value.” That there may be value by freeing up payroll, that the value of a pitcher might be expressed more accurately in something other than ERA, that improving defense may increase the value of the pitchers you already have, that there may be value in players even when they don’t fit into predefined “roles,” that “veteraness” doesn’t in itself add value to a player, that freely-available talent… oh, you know how this goes. They just keep making obviously bad decisions without understanding why. It’s like watching somebody trying to play a card or dice game with no understanding of probability. They just keep losing and shrugging and saying “I guess it’s just bad luck.” And now they’re starting to play against guys like Beane who’ve figured out how to count cards…

The resulting activity by consensus, involving people like Armstrong who have no business making baseball decisions, prevents any decisive action being taken to correct the problems with the team.

It is very “Seattle” though.

By: gottago

gottago — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:14:36 +0000

I’m with Bat Guano. And anyone else who wants to hire a “strong” GM. For better or worse, the GM’s job is baseball. Top to bottom. The ownership group — advice and consent, only. Give the GM a budget and get out of the way.

As I said yesterday —[deleted, duplicate comment]