Phillies Offseason Talk

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yay Hunsicker.

I want no part of either of the Duquettes being mentioned. Both of them are nitwits.

[Rome]

The fans would like Hillary Clinton as the GM if she brought us a friggen World Series title.

Well, okay... bad example but you get the idea.

[PhillyGirl]

Harry K and Randy Miller were on Angelo's TV show tonight and both said Hunsicker will probably be the new GM.  Randarino says "the fans will like him"... 

why the  face?

[Wingspan]

Harry K and Randy Miller were on Angelo's TV show tonight and both said Hunsicker will probably be the new GM.  Randarino says "the fans will like him"... 

why the  face?

biged has no smiley etiquette, i think he just randomly clicks them

[BigEd76]

 

Nah, I guess I'm hoping for Cashman or Epstein or something, but Hunsicker is OK.  It's too much like Manuel last year where they said "oh yeah...we'll explore all possible angles" then they ended up taking the guy we figured all along that will do what Montgomery/Dallas Green says...

[PhillyGirl]

Nah, I guess I'm hoping for Cashman or Epstein or something, but Hunsicker is OK.  It's too much like Manuel last year where they said "oh yeah...we'll explore all possible angles" then they ended up taking the guy we figured all along that will do what Montgomery/Dallas Green says...

Epstein is not even a possibility. They'll keep him in Boston. And Cashman would come here still crying over losing his dream job. No thanks.

[Rome]

Whoever is hired as the GM must have full autonomy over the organization.  Montgomery and the ownership stooges have to agree to that otherwise no one worth his salt is going to take the job.

If they're interested in winning the World Series, they have to make a fundamental change.

If not, all this is window-dressing.  Sadly, I think that's all Wade's firing was.  Window dressing.  I hope not for the sake of Phillies fans everywhere but that's what I expect from that group of losers.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Cashman is not that great a GM.  He put together 1 WS championship team in the last 7-8 years with an open checkbook at his disposal and one of the best farm systems in baseball (if not the best).

[ice grillin you]

i agree...people need to get off cashmans nuts...

[SunMo]

Cashman is not that great a GM.  He put together 1 WS championship team in the last 7-8 years with an open checkbook at his disposal and one of the best farm systems in baseball (if not the best).

i agree, but i'm not sure anyone knows how many of the decisions he made were truly his and how many were "influenced" by big George.

i think he has definitley done enough good to warrant getting a shot to do it all on his own somewhere, if not here.

[Rome]

Uhhh... the Yankees farm system is in tatters because of idiotic trades that Steinbrenner insisted on making.

Cashman is an excellent executive, guys.  Also - I disagree with PG about him mooning over the Yankees job.  I think he'd jump at the chance to prove he could win despite having Georgie's absurd payroll.

After all, a lot of the bone-headed signings and trades that the Yankme's have made during his tenure were done at the insistence of Steinbrenner and over the objections of Cashman.

Just sayin'...

Edited - good God, I just realized I agreed with Mo on this.   

Edited again - whew.  Ed agrees with me too.   

[BigEd76]

Cashman said in an article last year that he wasn't interested in trading for Randy Johnson or most of the high-priced talent, and that he'd actually be interested in developing a farm system, but George gave him strict orders of 'YOU'RE DOING THIS".  The article said that George had this guy wound so tight that he had to schedule his wife's C-section on an off day so he wouldn't miss any work!

[SunMo]

Edited - good God, I just realized I agreed with Mo on this.   

you'd be better off in life if you were able to say that more often 

[JTrotter Fan]

i agree...people need to get off cashmans nuts...

Hey...he pays well for it.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

OK, so if Cashman was just a Steinbrenner puppet in NY, then he's simply an unknown commodity anywhere else.