this can be today's show thread or it can be its own thread. From here on out with the Bulls done, Theo and Jed will be announced all summer as the smartest men in town. Glorious things will be said, exceeding even the initial love for Phil Emery and his coach hiring process. Now is the time to start writing down their over the top commentary in order to feed it back to them when inevitably Theo fails and is run out of town/runs himself out of town. Begin recording, gentlemen.

And remind me whey Theo's failure is inevitable?

And remind me whey Theo's failure is inevitable?

2. Theo's record on trades is not really good.

You keep saying this like it's an accepted fact, it's anything but.


Two trades he made had HUGE impacts on both World Series he won

The Schilling trade and the Hanley Ramirez trade

Even the Nomar one turned out well.

What trades are you talking about?

first off, he didn't make the Hanley trade. He took off for that one and was gone for two months (see: Gorilla suit). Most people thought he wouldn't have made that move.

Edgar Renteria?

Mike Cameron

Eric Gangne?

The Doug Mirabelli screwup?

Eric Bedard?

Pretty sure he traded away Victor Martinez...

my main issue with Theo is an insistence on building the minor league while basically giving up on the major league team.

At least try to sneak into the playoffs, anything can happen. Instead, they're killing the attending fan base that's left, and eventually the out of towners will stop coming. And buying my seats.

Theo has a great record as as GM's go.

The again, I dont care what he did. Tell me what you are going to do and do it.

He has told me what he is going to do, now he is doing it.

I dont ask for much more. It's sports, it's not that hard to explain to people what you are trying to do and how you will go about it.

Theo did it very well, Phil Emery did it very well. I think Hahn has done a decent job on this topic, but still has much of the Sox "We have a secret special method that doesnt really rank us 30th every year in our minor league rankings".

I think Hahn would like to do things much different than Kenny and it's smart to ease into his regime as he sees it working.

my main issue with Theo is an insistence on building the minor league while basically giving up on the major league team. At least try to sneak into the playoffs, anything can happen. Instead, they're killing the attending fan base that's left, and eventually the out of towners will stop coming. And buying my seats.

Agreed. Not sure its completely Theo's idea, but I agree

Everyone sucks on Billy Beane's balls...What has Beane done that Jim Hendry didnt do? Get to the postseason and hope to get lucky. They went about it in two entirely different ways but the bottom line is neither way got the job done.

uh....Beane did everything Hendry did with a lot lot lot less money.

uh....Beane did everything Hendry did with a lot lot lot less money.

Ironically, Beane and Epstein would tell you that the best a gm can do is consistently get their team to the playoffs and hope for the best

Hendry was a good gm who made some memorable mistakes

uh....Beane did everything Hendry did with a lot lot lot less money.

Two words...Alfonso Soriano. Two more words...Milton Bradley.