More on the Commish
More on the Commish
Glenn says:
Bud, you're not fooling anyone. You don't have baseball's interests at heart. You have the owners interest in heart. You don't give a two-bit-shit about the communities that baseball teams play in apart from the fact that you would like to fleece them.
And as far as this quote, "You're only as good as what your area can produce in revenue." Who the fuck are you talking to? You're talking to the A's who have a)the best GM in all of baseball, b)have made the playoffs four years in a row, c)have done so with a payroll in the bottom quarter of the league, and d)have been the foil to your bullshit theory that teams need Yankees-like revenue to survive. You know why teams like the Dodgers and Orioles who spend $100 million/yr. don't win shit? Because they're baseball people fucking suck! Bad management! It's not the money Bud!
The more I look at Bud's situation, the more I think of a hypnotist's show I saw, where the subject of the hypnotic suggestions couldn't see his girlfriend, even when she was standing literally a foot in front of his face.
But it works the other way for Bud. He can only see money (and not just money, but money that's going to come in right this very second) as the impetus for doing anything in the game, and absolutely nothing else, even if it's staring him right in the face.
Bud's not a man that can lead this game into the future. He's not a man who's willing to work with what he's got, and he's overextending his reach, trying to get nonsensical and impossible things pushed through, instead of grabbing what he can grasp, to work with what he's got. It's like he's looking for an excuse for when his administration comes up ultimately for the failure that it is.
Glenn says:
Bud, you're not fooling anyone. You don't have baseball's interests at heart. You have the owners interest in heart. You don't give a two-bit-shit about the communities that baseball teams play in apart from the fact that you would like to fleece them.
And as far as this quote, "You're only as good as what your area can produce in revenue." Who the fuck are you talking to? You're talking to the A's who have a)the best GM in all of baseball, b)have made the playoffs four years in a row, c)have done so with a payroll in the bottom quarter of the league, and d)have been the foil to your bullshit theory that teams need Yankees-like revenue to survive. You know why teams like the Dodgers and Orioles who spend $100 million/yr. don't win shit? Because they're baseball people fucking suck! Bad management! It's not the money Bud!
The more I look at Bud's situation, the more I think of a hypnotist's show I saw, where the subject of the hypnotic suggestions couldn't see his girlfriend, even when she was standing literally a foot in front of his face.
But it works the other way for Bud. He can only see money (and not just money, but money that's going to come in right this very second) as the impetus for doing anything in the game, and absolutely nothing else, even if it's staring him right in the face.
Bud's not a man that can lead this game into the future. He's not a man who's willing to work with what he's got, and he's overextending his reach, trying to get nonsensical and impossible things pushed through, instead of grabbing what he can grasp, to work with what he's got. It's like he's looking for an excuse for when his administration comes up ultimately for the failure that it is.
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