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So far, not so much for the decision makers in the rooms with him

We fell in love with Espada because he is a Latino that interviewed a bunch of times. Unless we knew more than that. Seemed like it. What we knew Im not sure however when pressed.

English is fine

I replied earlier, but to clarify the full thought, this is correct. Players are responsible for themselves. You cannot expect a Spanish speaking manager to get a guy to focus on improving and then improving. That is done on the player side. There is no need to be concerned about the latino manager getting this team to play better if they speak English a second language. These guys are good pros or they aren’t.

What happened to Grifol?

Exactly. Hiring based on clown salvation is wagging the dog

The Sox are driving the Ozzie thing with interviews. It would be stupid and twitter driven if there were no interviews.

Its not going to be Ozzie, Greg. The Sox are likely not going to make anyone happy about any one thing.

Sort of. But OTOH, to hell with them if they need a latino manager to perform. And Im done worrying about catering to players that don’t perform

For the most part. He definately wasn't a raging apologist fior the bosses like Stoney. If anyone of us would have to talk for an hour of TV after every game you are bound to get on people's wrong side, and if Ozzie ever did, God forbid. For the most part, Ozzie was on the sober side of watching this team operate. I was a skeptic too, but I think as said above, outside this board there would be some happy enough people in town. And lets not forget that hiring brand new managers has a pretty poor success rate. I will be hopeful and be offering a clean slate.

That's funny. But again, I don't see the need to be overly negative about this. The game has changed, and I'm reasonably sure he's young enough, and attentivre enough to understand what's going on with it. Like, do I believe he is going to have a modern lineup that bunts all the time based on what happened decades ago, I don't.

I'll just say that while I don't have him at the top of my list, maybe he isn't even on my list. But at the same time I have no reason to believe he won't do a good job with this team. Unless you count not being able to deal well with the dysfunctional YoYo's in the office. In which case there are't any other options that have a good chance of succeeding. either.

BAAAaaaaaannng! [/MIKEBREEN]

Pete Rose is only 81

Knowing Reinsdorf, I would be surprised if all those people aren’t FOF getting Xmas cards and home visits once a week. All the kids play together, and uncle Jerry knows them all by their names and has knowledge of their report cards.

That would mean the Sox are seeking to fire people. Q theory fails. White Sox FO people have lifelong jobs like SCOTUS.

FWIW, the Ozzie report came from a radio guy that didn’t cite any source other than, thats the fact jack.

His agent woulddirectly inform the other teams, and this would be filtered into mainstream media. Happens all the time.

Espada would likely take his name out of the running for other jobs publicly.

Reinsdorf is worse at this than we thought. Jerking people around like that bringing people in for job interviews that have no shot would make him a MLB sociopath.

Unless Espada went into the corner of Hahns office and took a dump, or commented on his wife’s ass, doubt he actually did anything that literally disqualified him. Sorry to say for NorthBob.

Social media will be the alpha and omega of the human race’s destruction.

As I mentioned, they may as well give the fans something here, all things being equal. They owe the fans one, and lets be honest, other than LaRussa being an obvious mistake, nobody can predict how well a manger will perform when it counts.

He can’t know who will NOT be hired any more that another can know who WILL be hired. Neither of them can say either statement.