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In a vacuum this would be such a good move, but this could not possibly be the way a professional baseball organization would operate, would it? It would be so transparent and borderline unethical. Has there ever been a precedence like this before? To fire a manager after one year, only because a better one has entered the job market? I'm not a RR fan, but that would send such a shitty message to the players and the rest of baseball that our FO would do that. Or am I just projecting my idealism of fairness onto the whole situation?
Either way, I don't think it happens.
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I'm torn. On one hand, picking up Maddon would clearly signal that they think they're ready to contend...and I would love it cause I think he's a great manager. On the other hand I agree, doing it would make them look really bad.
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Yeah, I gotta think that at an ethical level, firing RR would be incredibly shitty. I'd love to have Maddon though.
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Thing is, of the big three rumored Cubs, Dodgers, Mets...only the Cubs have not denied. Madden apparently wants to manage in a big market.
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Quote:Joelsherman1: #Mets #Dodgers execs now on record to no on Maddon. Been told no by #Braves #Bluejays teams thought could be in play. All pointing to #Cubs
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Not buying it. I'd love to have Maddon too, but you're setting a really bad tone by shitcanning Renteria after he did everything they asked of him.
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Here's a half-baked idea. Could we hire Maddon for the FO in some advisory role and then have him waiting in the wings once RR has reached his expiration date sometime in 2015? Otherwise, not happening IMO.
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Fuck Rick. Maddon is the best manager in the game. If you have your chance, you don't pass it up because you want to be the nice guy.
I hate my pretentious sounding username too.
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Quote:Fuck Rick. Maddon is the best manager in the game. If you have your chance, you don't pass it up because you want to be the nice guy.
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Rick, at least you know you're guaranteed to coach in the WS next year!
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We could hire Maddon as "President of On-field Baseball Operations" but then I think we'd owe somebody Chris Carpenter. (I think we could get Carpenter from the Yakult Swallows, but where would we send him this time?)
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It's being reported on Twitter that Oscar Taveras died in a car accident in the Dominican.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)
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This Taveras news is terrible. Ugh
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Wow, that is absolutely awful.
If Angelo had picked McClellin, I would have been expecting to hear by training camp that kid has stage 4 cancer, is actually 5'2" 142 lbs, is a chick who played in a 7 - 0 defensive scheme who only rotated in on downs which were 3 and 34 yds + so is not expecting to play a down in the NFL until the sex change is complete and she puts on another 100 lbs. + but this is Emery's first pick so he'll get a pass with a bit of questioning. - 1060Ivy
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