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Doc wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:46 pm Instead, they're just waiting for incapable players to play better. It is the cheaper solution, after all.

I remember when Huntington came aboard, he claimed the team would magically improve the next season (despite his inaction) because all the players had supposedly "underachieved" the year before.

https://www.timesonline.com/story/sport ... 363258007/

3pirates3 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 7:03 pm

Doc wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:46 pm Instead, they're just waiting for incapable players to play better. It is the cheaper solution, after all.

I remember when Huntington came aboard, he claimed the team would magically improve the next season (despite his inaction) because all the players had supposedly "underachieved" the year before.

https://www.timesonline.com/story/sport ... 363258007/

As we all remember, Huntington said a lot of things that were, shall we say, imaginary.

Doc wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 11:36 pm

3pirates3 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 7:03 pm

Doc wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2024 6:46 pm Instead, they're just waiting for incapable players to play better. It is the cheaper solution, after all.

I remember when Huntington came aboard, he claimed the team would magically improve the next season (despite his inaction) because all the players had supposedly "underachieved" the year before.

https://www.timesonline.com/story/sport ... 363258007/

As we all remember, Huntington said a lot of things that were, shall we say, imaginary.

Cherington lives in a world of imagination. The reality of player performance is meaningless to him. It's all about the computer, analytics, math. The trick is to connect those external calculations to the human beings on the field. He has not been able to do that. His explanation for the failure of the team is that the players have to do better, improvement must come from within. Because once he did his calculations, his job was done. Now it's up to the players to make those analytics a reality. That's all Cherington's got. When that fails, he's got nothin." So in his mind, improvement must come from within (by playing up to his calculations) or it won't come at all. Here it is late August and he's still got half a lineup (if that). His way doesn't work and he's too stubborn to admit it.

It's sad that if someone tells a Pirate fans that the Bucs have an awful manager, the response can easily be, "You think he's bad! You should see our GM!"