If Hahn trades for Bumgarner or someone like that when the White Sox are out of the race cuz he thinks he’ll be able to extend/re-sign him he needs to be fired.
On the other hand, someone under team control and just in their prime like Mancini intrigues me (cost dependent, obviously). Pitching is clearly a bigger need at the moment if they want to make a splash though. So I guess my wishful thinking plan is to go get Mancini, pay Cole in the off-season, move Eloy to 1B or DH, and hope Luis Robert can stay healthy. Oh yeah, and have Rutschman drop to third in the draft. Then have Reinsdorf sell the team. Then move the team to Vegas. Then win multiple championships and watch the profits roll in.
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only old fart around here.
Donnie has a ways to go to catch Gene, but I think Donnie has what it takes to break the record. haha
If Hahn trades for Bumgarner or someone like that when the White Sox are out of the race cuz he thinks he’ll be able to extend/re-sign him he needs to be fired.
That’s crazy talk!
100% correct. That would be a god awful move.
On the other hand, someone under team control and just in their prime like Mancini intrigues me (cost dependent, obviously). Pitching is clearly a bigger need at the moment if they want to make a splash though. So I guess my wishful thinking plan is to go get Mancini, pay Cole in the off-season, move Eloy to 1B or DH, and hope Luis Robert can stay healthy. Oh yeah, and have Rutschman drop to third in the draft. Then have Reinsdorf sell the team. Then move the team to Vegas. Then win multiple championships and watch the profits roll in.
I think I may have gone too far.
More like, when does Mattingly pull the plug on the Marlins, not the other way around. They’re lucky to have him.
Where’s he gonna go? He’s the Gene Mauch of managers.
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only old fart around here.
Donnie has a ways to go to catch Gene, but I think Donnie has what it takes to break the record. haha
I don’t know why he’d be in a hurry to leave. He won’t have teams lining up to sign him.
I mean, he’s an average manager at best.
What’s wrong with “average”? By definition there are a lot worse managers than him in the bigs then.
by definition average is also extremely easy to find. And as a general rule in a competitive context you kind of want better.
personally i woudn’t even rate Mattingly that high, to be honest.
I ment to also ask him what he thought of the odds of Ozzie Albies or Ronald Acuna Jr getting picked to take place in the Home Run Derby this year?
The home run derby is now more about who’s willing to do it, rather than who wants to.
Agreed
What did Trout do to Strike Time’s mother?