Jiddy
I wear my Meatball Badge with honor.
to a degree loyalty is generally a good thing. if one deserves loyalty, and reciprocates responsibly it can be great. i guess it depends on whether you think reinsdork owes anything to the people he makes money off of … his investors (us) so to speak. do you have any doubt that the sycophant kenny williams has been detrimental to this team for years? i certainly don’t. loyalty has kept him where he is. this kind of loyalty is not a good thing. people have been put in positions of incredible importance in this country because they are “loyal”! you think this is a good thing? it’s cost this team and its fans dearly for years. there’s nothing appealing to me in that. loyalty has now brought us larussa who you see as the best coach hire of your lifetime. i personally don’t fully agree with you. you want an argument? personally i think gene lamont (258-210) was as good as larussa while with the sox, maybe better. if you don’t remember him he was the guy fired after 30 games after the strike season so terry bevington could take over. only time will tell if a 77 year has been who hasn’t managed in 9 years is the best you have seen.
and you think jr is an average owner? imo you’re way off base. this is a guy (a billionaire) who has owned this team for 30 years in the third largest city in this country! his record is dismal! most (all really) of this comes from his choices of personnel. people he ‘likes’. fuck using the best people you can get! use the undeserving, untalented guys (kw stands out here) because they are ‘loyal’! don’t know about you but this is not the kind of guy i want calling the shots of my team. i believe you can be loyal without fucking your own business. jr cannot!
you say on paper we improved at manager by a large amount. i say you can’t make that claim. if you want to say “in their day’ i’d agree with you. but you can’t say that now. only time will tell and i’m guessing he will end up being a detriment to the team. tuck this away and we shall see.
Gene Lamont eh? Well....If you want to ride that pony go for it. Gene LaMont couldn't hold LaRussa's jock as far as I'm concerned. Unless LaRussa has dementia, he's not all of a sudden just forgot how to manage in baseball. If anything undoes him, it's going to be the clubhouse atmosphere/players don't like him deal...but I have to believe the days of us questioning the lineup card ON A DAILY BASIS-like with Renteria-are over...and the handling of our pitchers/bullpen is going to be light years improved. He's 77 not 90. I think he can handle sitting on his fat ass, eating cornnuts and placing players in their appropriate spots. FFS, our president was going to be that age regardless of which one won. And they've got nukes lol.
So yeah, this isn't some dire "omg the end is nigh" situation. We've improved over Renteria. Thus, we should be better next year with LaRussa. Time will tell on that for some of us, I guess...but I have little doubt of it. I mean, only a Chicago fan would act as if it's end of days about the team improving itself or over a nothingburger (I am guilty of this too many times)...LOL...I know...I know...Situation matters...but it's still high comedy if you think about it.
In other related news...That Sarah Spain needs to chill the f*ck out too. Maybe Jerry will get all the loyalists to blackball her for the lulz.
But yeah, time will tell...If the LaRussa deal falls on it's face hard, I'm revising my 80s jersey that I eventually send to you from Grandal to LaMont.