On Bearly Legal Wednesday live at noon central former Chicago Bear Richard Dent, former Montreal Expo and Boston Red Sox GM Dan Duquette and hopefully Cubs GM, and former New England Patriot Raymond Clayborn on talkzone.com.

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Dan Duquette as Cubs GM? I hope you're kidding.

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From Wikipedia

In 1988 he became Montreal's director of player development. In his three years in that role, the Expos drafted Marquis Grissom, Cliff Floyd and Rondell White. Duquette replaced Dave Dombrowski as Expos' GM on September 19, 1991. Under Duquette the Expos acquired elite pitcher Pedro Martínez from the Dodgers for second baseman Delino DeShields. After two seasons in Montreal Duquette became the general manager of his hometown Red Sox.

Boston Red Sox
The Red Sox went 656-574 in the 8 seasons under Duquette, setting attendance records and winning the AL East once and finishing 2nd in four other seasons. The Red Sox won the AL East pennant in 1995 before bowing to the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS and made the playoffs as a Wild Card in 1998 and 1999, only to lose to the New York Yankees in the ALCS.

Under Duquette, the Red Sox made exceptional strides in improving their dismal history of poor race relations as an organization in the hiring of both coaching and administrative personnel with minority candidates. The Minor League facilities and coaching availability were upgraded at every level during his tenure, and Red Sox favorites such as Nomar Garciaparra and Kevin Youkilis were drafted into the system. Other notable draftees in his Red Sox term were future MLB shortstops David Eckstein, Adam Everett and Hanley Ramirez as well as second baseman Freddy Sanchez.

Duquette is also noted for several major acquisitions that would ultimately play a part in the Red Sox 2004 World Championship, including acquiring knuckleballer Tim Wakefield in 1995, Pedro Martínez in 1997 from Montreal, the 1997 trade with Seattle for both pitcher Derek Lowe and All-Star catcher Jason Varitek and the free agent signings of Manny Ramírez in 2000 and Johnny Damon in December, 2001.

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That's an amazing edit of the Wikipedia bio, omitting the negative comments and copying only the positive ones. Bravo, you must be an attorney.

Are you a Red Sox fan? Have you followed the Red Sox since the 80s? I have. And while its true that he acquired pieces to the puzzle of the 2004 championship, it's also true that he was basically run out of Boston on a rail because those same stars, Garciaparra, Ramirez, Martinez disliked him so much that they all wanted out of Boston. Also, part of the Wiki bio you omitted mentioned how he could not get along with manager Kevin Kennedy, as well as his non-signing of Roger Clemens who went on to win FOUR more Cy Youngs.

So while I'm sure you're eager to blow smoke up your guests asses, don't try it on here where there are people that know the real story.

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Mr. Injection Man himself.

if it makes you feel better, you can parse David Spamda's grammar to believe that he means Raymond Clayborn should be the next Cubs GM.

And he is out of MLB so obviously he is persona non grata. Another great guest Spada. Sorry but I won't be listening. Waiting for the Herman Franks interview live in studio!