Man, Brewers are hard core. I am wondering if they said to Stearns and Arnold, "Look, we're going to deny permission for them to talk to you, but we are going to give you xyz." Otherwise, I don't think that's the best rep to have as an organization.
OT: New York Mets 2021-2022 Off Season Thread
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Mark Attanasio, the Brewers owner, kinda views himself as the Charlie Finley of his day. He is the ringleader of the small market owners, and vocal defender of their interests. He despises how the large market clubs have used their financial clout to poach small market teams of their talent. For his free agent players, there's nothing he can do about it. For his management talent, there is.
My guess is that he is the one and only owner who would deny one of his employees a major promotion.
That's funny coming from him since he took advantage of the Marlins fire sale a few years ago to land Yelich in a lopsided trade.
You're the guy who wanted the baseball guy (Alderson) to be kept far away from this search, are you not?
Every time I begin to unsee this image and scrub it from my memory, I have to see it again and start over,😏
NOTHING justifies Chris Christie being anywhere near the Mets.
BTW, apparently no one in baseball wants to deal with “the baseball guy,” eh?
Here's the CBS sports story. It says it's not clear why Arnold withdrew, and that it's customary for clubs to grant permission to interview if a promotion is involved. Take it for whatever you think it's worth. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...withdraws-name-from-consideration-per-report/
Hire Brian Sabean as GM and Bruce Bochy and hope those old timers can stabilize the club within 3 years.
I've seen it reported that Cohen is the problem, and none of the candidates had any concerns with Sandy.
But I have also seen that at least one candidate was concerned about being "the meat in an Alderson sandwich".
I hear quite a bit from "talking heads" that the problem is Cohen and not Sandy. While Cohen does seem to be a bit of a loose cannon- my take is "are you sh$tting me" I am sorry but it is a SA issue, not the owner.
It could be worse, we could be bringing back the same GM and Manager. 😁
Make Boras the GM. Maybe we will then be able to sign some of his clients. In all seriousness, I cannot recall a team ever having such a hard time finding front office help. Speculation on my part, but maybe the word is out around the league that you don't want to work for Cohen.
Could this be tied to the White Sox (owner) who NEVER wanted Cohen as the owner of the Mets? It might be a smear campaign to undermine the organization due to pure hate. Ownership of a professional team is a small elite club. Cohen is the new guy on the block. It took Jerry Jones a long time before he was accepted as one of the inner circle guys in the NFL. Working his Cohen's financial businesses is different than working for a sports organization. There is no real history to say Cohen is a b*tch to work with or be around.
I have never heard of so many clubs refusing their people to interview for a promotion. I actually, didn’t think they were allowed to.
And there have been much worse owners- they just have to pay more. But we aren’t even getting that opportunity. So, I agree with you, I believe the other owners are behind this.
Mets problems will not go away until Sandy goes away. I’ve never seen another pro org go through this.
Why do you block all these interviews? Deep pockets and a hunger to win spells trouble and a threat to these other teams. They know that Cohen will go to lengths that they never had to concern themselves with under the previous ownership.
The buried lede in this article is that Sabean is not in consideration. Not surprising IMO. Sabean is old school, and old school is not what Cohen is looking for.
Looking to me like they will promote from within, which could work, I suppose. Or not.
They will soon run out of people or things to cancel, sickening is all I got to say!!!!
The amount of nonsense that is just mused into existence in this thread is breath taking.
His Tweet game is strong.
Who knows what is going on behind the scenes. Twitter and social media folks are so dramatic.
Not a follower of these things. How long does it take for most teams to find a front office person?
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