I don’t think I could be a general manager. I’m not good with knowing a player’s value vs another player’s value, or how much money a player should get and for how long. I do know good GMs from bad GMs. Brian Cashman has all the money in the world to spend and look at the Yankees.
Tony could be a GM..don’t be surprised if you see the headline “Rangers GM Daniels replaced by guy who was part of a 7-run scoring duo in 8th grade.” That’s right, I was the other part of the duo.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks Jon Daniels looks like Dax Shepard from Punk’d?
I mean, if they had the same hair and if Dax was trading away future All Stars (and maybe Hall of Famers) for the guy who will soon be washing your car and/or serving you at your local McDonald’s.
As Tony is painfully aware..Daniels is in a make-or-break position. With half the team expendable and many likely to be traded, he can bring in prospects to save the Rangers or he can pull a Daniels. You will know which one it is if you read the headline “Cory has to talk Tony down from a ledge.” And yes, that would be the frontpage headline in the New York Times.
For me, on the other hand, I’m content with Mark Shapiro as the Indians GM. He has done well considering the amount of money he is allowed to spend. Unlike Cashman, he can’t just throw money around to try to fix a team (by the way, isn’t it funny that his name is CASHman). Not all the moves have been perfect. Roberto Hernandez, who started his career with the New York Knickerbockers, and Trot Nixon haven’t been the greatest signings. Trot’s not HORRIBLE but for the money, I’ll take Franklin Gutierrez or Ben Francisco in right field. But hindsight is always 20/20, isn’t it?
Well..I don’t have much else to say..just wasting time in class.
Cory
Let’s just agree that neither of us could be a GM. My roster would consist of Pudge and Michael Young (both handed lifetime contracts), washed-up prospects for Rudy J to turn into hitters, and any high school pitcher from Texas who can top 92 on the radar gun.
Tony
July 3, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I’ve never seen Punk’d, and before I read who that really is, I thought it was Zach Braff. Maybe all three are long-lost triplets?
July 3, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Yeah, I didn’t think about him but..I guess Braff can play Jon Daniels (coincidentally, JD..like Zach Braff in Scrubs) in the made-for-TV movie “A GM Disgraced”