Getting the Kenny Williams promotion for a job well done! Congratulations and enjoy your new role!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Should Brad Pitt make a sequel?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He is a great GM.

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Where does he fall on the Sox list of enemies? Its a long list

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

He's more of a punch line than an enemy. KW has a world series ring. BB has a book written by an infatuated author.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This guy gets it.

As everyone knows, the best revenge is living well.

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Agreed. Give him the Yankees payroll and he probably has multiple titles. Theo kicked his ass last year though.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

He's traded away Josh Donaldson, Carlos Gonzalez, Yeonis Cespedes, Gio Gonzalez and Addison Russell.

Hypothetical Billy Beane!

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It's not really a stretch considering the regular season success he's had with the lowest payrolls in baseball. He has an eye for talent.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Yep.

Kenny is better than Billy.

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The A's were a dynasty only a little while before Beane got there. I don't know where the idea comes from that it is impossible to win there.

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It's hard to have success in baseball when you have one of the lowest payrolls.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

All things being equal in terms of payroll and organization structure, I'd take Billy Beane over KW.

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No doubt, but you don't have to make it more than it is with the job he did there.

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The Sox payroll shot up after 2005, but there were many years before that where the payroll was pretty close.

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I agree. That's why I loved what Kenny did. He didn't get burnt on a trade until after the WS. Not agreeing to take back Willis in the Cabrera deal is where the slide started.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Correct. People can talk about guys he traded away and rightfully so. He traded away some guys way before he had to that were/are very good. But realize that he traded many of the players, because he had to. He could not afford to retain them, with the budget he is given. Trading away guys like Russell was done in desperation. He thought he had a team that might actually be able to contend for a title, if given a couple more starting pitchers (Shark and Hammel) to put them over the top. He does have an amazing eye for talent. Well, he and his scouts do. Otherwise they wouldn't sign, draft and develop sufficient talent to remain relevant so often and have so many good players to deal away, who wind up being remembered best as guys who shouldn't have been traded. But again, he trades them when he can no longer keep them due to his budget, or trades guys when he needs a piece to complete a puzzle. he's done an amazing job.

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Beane traded Josh Donaldson and Addison Russell for virtually nothing. We have a different definition of "amazing job".

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

much like Theo picking up Lester, good GM's screw up every once in a while.

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Are you guys missing the point that his own team has now given him a promotion which isn't really a promotion like they did with Kenny?

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what exactly does Beane do now that he has (and apparently has had for some time) a "defacto GM"?

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Take over for Hawk in the White Sox booth.

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Those are two HUGE mistakes in a four month time frame. Beane has not done an amazing job.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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he lost in a crapshoot game and tried to fix his previous playoff mistakes roster wise. It didn't work out. We will enjoy Russell but I still view Beane as a good regular season GM who has done some amazing seasons with very little money.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

He's never even won a World Series.

Loser.

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Good regular season GM. That's a good way to describe him. Winning one playoff series in eighteen years is not an amazing job, as previously stated.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
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It's also not anyones fault but his own that he stayed in Oakland.

If Oakland is a limiting factor then go someplace else.

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I think they had a pretty high payroll in the dynasty years. Like maybe the highest in baseball.

But he's sort of become bigger than just an executive in Oakland, hasn't he? I thought he owns a stake in the team itself, among other perks. Always assumed he stayed there because, relative to other GMs, he's got it made in Oakland.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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