MLB 2014 season thread

And no one has any idea what "chief baseball officer" Tony La Russa's job requirements are.

 

The requirements on LaRussa, or the requirements he's setting for others in the organization?

As far as the requirements on LaRussa, it's not too hard to figure out: He's running the show.

Why the hell else would he have taken such a job at this point in his career/life?

My bet is he'll let Gibson stumble and bumble to the finish line, line up next year's staff through back channels, and drop the rope on Gibson in the last week or 10 days of the season.

I suppose he'll probably whack Towers about the same time so he could offer any superstar managerial prospects a combined manager-GM position, if he needed to do it to get him.

 

He's running a shit show.
The organization needs to be purged and he's done nothing.

 

There is also the simple matter that La Russa once showed similar execrable behavior as the Diamondbacks have with their beanball wars.
It's a joke this fuck is in the Hall of Fame- he had guys thrown at and admitted it.
Now his manager and general manager are having it done to other players.
So one of the five best players in baseball takes a heater in the spinal marrow because a few assholes think they're bigger than the game.

 

Well, if they threw out every HOF manager who ever ordered knockdown pitches, you wouldn't have many left.

 

Not like him. It was a huge part of his value system.

Towers and Gibson couldn't be working for a more condoning executive.

 

There hasn't been a manager/GM combo in MLB since Bobby Cox for the last two months of the 1990 season, I don't think. And the last guy to do it full-time was probably Whitey Herzog with the Cardinals in the early 80s.

GMs these days are all business school grads and/or former scouting directors, not managers who want to run the whole show.

 

Ezekiel Carrera just made a play you'll be seeing a lot of tonight.

 

He was just called up from Toledo.

 

Take a better route and you make it without leaving your feet. But it wasn't an easy play and he got it done.

 

Ladies and gentlemen (yes, here even), Oakland's Rally Possum: