That's not true unless you want to say screwing up the farm system was a PR move. The Carlos Lee signing was certainly PR but Matsui and many other moves were just baseball.
If you think Jimmy Wynn and Jose Cruz are "reasonably young," then you are correct. Both will be prominently featured this year at MMP, starting in... roughly five days. This I can 1,000% guarantee.
Dierker appears to have wanted a very specific job that they had someone else in mind for. It's not like they just turned their back on him. They offered him a job with the organization and he is the one who walked away from it. I agree with Postolos that this sounds like sour grapes on Dierker's part. He seems like a cantankerous old man.
It isn't so nice to see names like Stretch Suba and Larry Dierker tossed aside. It also is a bit to be expected for a new regime to want to clean house in an organization that so suddenly fell apart so historically. The other irony: many of the same fans complaining about these developments may also have been complaining about "cronyism" previously. Absolutes in life: death, taxes, and sports fans b****ing.
Dirk was a great player, a great color guy, and did a solid job as manager also. There is no way to know what the negotiations were like with him and the new regime though, hard to choose one side or the other without really knowing how all of this went down. Sure is a lot easier to side with Dirk though, the way Crane has been a total ass over the past couple of weeks
Agreed. Can't stand Crane so far but I'm not going to blame him for Dierker handling the news that someone else got a job he wanted by whining like a titty baby.
Sounds like someone had a little hissy fit and someone had to reassure him he was still wanted and appreciated.
