The Sox let him get away so they could give their job to Kenny Williams. Where are Aggravated Bob and bigfan?

that's pretty funny.... but what would be most funny would be if neither the A's or the Tigers make it to the WS

One of the won't for sure.

I bet the Tigers will be that team.

Price's play off stats are decidedly underwhelming.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/_/i ... avid-price

Dombrowski was let go by the Sox in 1986 while Kenny was a 22 yr old hitting .129. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

So what? They still dumped Dombrowski so they could hire Williams. Just like they fired LaRussa and hired Bevington. Make Hawk the GM again. He wants to try a 4 man rotation.

It's about the quality of people they choose to put in charge vs. the ones they let go. Is it hard to understand? Fanboys! HOOTERVILLE!

I do love that some people actually do get upset (Keyser and TM) that JORR even mentioned this as if it was a choice between KW and DD. That was never the point JORR was making.

All some Sox fans know is that KW was the GM in title, so he must have been the reason they won. If that is what you choose to think, then so be it.

Thank god Kenny found you guys Jose Abreu, without Kenny that also would have never happened. Go ahead, just ask him.

I attribute much of Kenny's fleeting success as a general manager to Ozzie's input. .

YOU ARE 100% CORRECT SIR!

Huh? The quality of the Sox organization has nothing to do with your original claim. You were drawing a causal relationship between the Dombrowski firing and the Williams hiring; such a relationship does not exist.

No, I'm saying when you consistently get rid of elite guys and keep ordinary ones, there's a problem.

No, I'm saying when you consistently get rid of elite guys and keep ordinary ones, there's a problem.

Who are the elite guys the Sox have consistently purged from the organization?

Matters who you ask. Jerry rarely sees them as Elite or not Elite. He sees guys he just likes (Farmer and Hawk) and guys he doesnt like (Ray Clay, Dan Evans, most agents). Hahn is a case, where he knew the game was about to get away from him in terms of stats and advanced matrics, Hahn was the contract guy for the last 5 years and knew the numbers and if he didnt give him the job Hahn was going to be a GM elsewhere.

LaRussa, Dombrowski and Hemond for starters. Some people would say Leyland. They keep Jerry ass-kissers under their "loyalty" program. You go far in a Reinsdorf org by kissing Jerry's ass.

You're talking about things that happened 20+ years ago, when Reinsdorf let Hawk take control of the franchise. He corrected that mistake rather quickly. Where is the evidence of a sustained pattern of purging "elite" talent within the Sox organization?

Evans spent 4-5 years being groomed as the Asst GM, Kenny was the director of minor league bribery and kickbacks.

Imagine if your the Asst GM at the local Piggly Wiggly. You worked there for 20 years. You have been groomed to be the GM.

Then afer 21 years, the GM announces his retirement and the CEO steps and says the head cashier is going to be the GM and you are fired.

That story though doesnt get out as much as the "Pay Jay Williams after the accident or pay for Bill cartwright" from the vast coffeurs of the chicago bulls.