re: St Louis Cardinals. Buyers or Sellers?

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Just hack into other teams' computers and decide based on that.

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This is how we have always worked. Front office gets together, discusses the players we need the most, then we go out and get the poor mans version of that exact player.

If you expect MM to be fired, you will be very unhappy.

BDW said this week, that he thinks MM is a great, strategic Manager. I had to stop the vehicle, or crash because i could not stop laughing. The last thing MM is, is strategic.

BDW is clueless, and is allowing Mo to shite on everything that Jocketty,Luhnow, and Larussa built.

The worst, was that they gave Mo a new position, because Mo's agent floated rumors of teams being interested in him as their new GM/President. So now he gets an office position and continues to put his stamp on this flawed roster and team.

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If they continue to be average (at best), the best thing people can do is stay home. They will take notice if in August and September there are 10,000 empty seats every night.

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Problem is, they won't.

People love the team, and will go regardless. And all they have to do is put game day tickets at low prices, and people will gobble them up and spend a fortune at the concession stands.

If you can get the fan base to come together and demand changes, then, you will see BDW make moves. He's making $$$ hand over fist, and his team is still in the hunt(lolol), so all good for him. And in his interview he put a lot of blame on the players, not the poorly put together roster that Mo put together.

All we heard is that Defense is #1 priority for 2017/18 season. And yet they did nothing, but made it worse. Fowler was never a good defensive CF.

It's a mess

But, Dejong,Voit,and Sierra have been a breath of fresh air.

Sierra comes up from AA, and hits. only 49 at bats, but he's still hitting .417 in MLB plate appearances.

Carpenter at 2nd got so bad last year, that Mo had to spank MM to make the insanity stop.

Mo has had to deal 3 players in MM reign, because he refused to stop playing them, while they did nothing for months.

MM played Moss every game, and guy had 1 hit in a month. Allen Craig, he had to deal him to stop MM from playing him. John Jay, he had to stop MM madness with jay playing every night.

If your FOM(friend of Mike), you have it made, regardless of how bad you struggle.

Also, if Pham isn't asking to be out of the lineup, he plays every night.

And some one needs to pound this into MM head.

He also should be hitting 3rd, he's the best suited for it.

They did spend money last year. Unfortunately, both players haven't made much of an impact. They offered Price $200M the year before. Leake will be hard to trade with his contract. Grichuk has little trade value. I hope Matheny is fired too, but I doubt it happens.

Brenly never managed when the Diamondbacks hired him. He won a World Series his first year. And beat the defending champs doing it.

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Brenly never managed when the Diamondbacks hired him. He won a World Series his first year. And beat the defending champs doing it.

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Ok, MM nearly won the WS in his first year, does that make him a good manager, or the one that should be leading this team? Or is it possibly a result of the players being able to produce at a level that his negatives were still overcome.

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So who would you of hired? It took LaRussa a decade and numerous playoff appearances before he finally won. And he's always accused of "overmanaging".

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You can not seriously be arguing that Mike Matheny was a good choice