Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
Raisor (12-23-2015)
Assembly Hall (12-27-2015),KittyDuran (12-27-2015)
IMO a few posters are going wayyyyyyyy overboard on the criticism of the front office. I understand being upset the team is not doing exactly what you think they should have done, but it's difficult to read these trade threads as they are basically all just parts of one narrative put forth by a few posters about the Reds front office being incompetent and Dick Williams is the son of the owner.excessive player criticism or anything along those lines.
I would actually like to see some discussion about the players packaged to the Reds without reading that it is absolute fact they are worthless.
It is also getting old reading a bunch of comments by these few posters about how anyone not jumping off of a bridge is an "apologist" and "deliberately have their head in the sand" and "blind" or "naive."
Enough is enough. When we do we get back to talking about baseball?
Just my 2 cents.
Last edited by RedTeamGo!; 12-29-2015 at 01:50 PM.
HeatherC1212 (12-31-2015),mth123 (12-29-2015),Revering4Blue (01-03-2016),Tom Servo (12-29-2015),westofyou (12-29-2015)
You recently called Aroldis Chapman a "psychopath", and now you're pointing to excessive player criticism?
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
Mutaman (04-23-2018),RedTeamGo! (12-29-2015)
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
WrongVerb (12-30-2015)
*BaseClogger* (12-30-2015),Mutaman (04-23-2018),RedEye (04-11-2016)
For a circle of posters, any criticism is way overboard. It doesn't matter what your posting history is, if you step out of line to criticize a move, you're moved into the knee-jerk crank column.
The reactions to the last two trades around baseball have ranged from puzzlement to "might not be that bad". Yet criticism on RZ has been met with patronizing belittlement.
For the record, my own criticism extends back way, way, way before the Frazier trade. It includes playing defense-first players when the most consistently successful club in the division doesn't do that. It includes fretting about possibly asking starters to relieve, or relievers to start. It includes never fixing the gaping maw that's existed in LF since opening day 2012. It includes the farm system producing a dearth of qualified major league hitters since Mesoraco made his debut. It includes valuing gimmicks like bobble head days and "wooooo" at the park over maximizing the opportunity to win to drive attendance. These are long-standing and valid criticisms about things that make this team susceptible to upswings and downswings, rather than consistent winning.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Wonderful Monds (01-04-2016)
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