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7 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

How many folks believe the final determination part?

Let's give them a chance here.

Things have been different since mid-summer.   There were plenty of people on here who thought they wouldn't trade Manny, would hold onto him and say a deal wasn't good enough.   They traded Manny.

There were plenty of people on here who said they might trade Manny but wouldn't trade all their expiring assets.   They traded ALL their expiring assets except one who refused to be traded.

There were plenty of people on here who said they would keep Buck and/or Duquette.   Both are gone.

There were plenty of people on her an hour ago who said they would promote Brady to the president position.   They didn't.

They now say they are going to do exactly what a lot of people, including me in the original post, want:   hire someone from outside the organization and give that person full power to try to execute a rebuild.   I understand skepticism based on the last two decades plus of Angelos ownership.    But so far, since June, they have done what most people think to be "the right thing" in almost every case, and they have also done what they have said they will.   They actually signed some international players and still have more space than any other team to get the last remaining big prize.   

 

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3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Let's give them a chance here.

Things have been different since mid-summer.   There were plenty of people on here who thought they wouldn't trade Manny, would hold onto him and say a deal wasn't good enough.   They traded Manny.

There were plenty of people on here who said they might trade Manny but wouldn't trade all their expiring assets.   They traded ALL their expiring assets except one who refused to be traded.

There were plenty of people on here who said they would keep Buck and/or Duquette.   Both are gone.

There were plenty of people on her an hour ago who said they would promote Brady to the president position.   They didn't.

They now say they are going to do exactly what a lot of people, including me in the original post, want:   hire someone from outside the organization and give that person full power to try to execute a rebuild.   I understand skepticism based on the last two decades plus of Angelos ownership.    But so far, since June, they have done what most people think to be "the right thing" in almost every case, and they have also done what they have said they will.   They actually signed some international players and still have more space than any other team to get the last remaining big prize.   

 

...but even if they do that it's not going to matter if Brady Anderson is left in his mysterious yet powerful position to undermine the authority and vision of the "real" experts. People are worried because today they announced they were parting ways with two significant people...and Brady wasn't one of them. 

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38 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Over/under on number of days before Brady is announced as President of Baseball Ops? Really the only question is if he will assume the GM role as well, and maintain a locker. 

Couple of days.  They won't keep DD and Buck and would keep Brady? That's doing things halfass. All three needed to go. But keeping Brady would be the worst thing they could do. IMO 

 

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