KW deserves a majority of the praise for 2005 (outside of the players, of course). He redesigned that entire team and acquired incredible starting pitching and bullpen depth. You minimize the work he did that year.

I love KW approach to attacking each season. I don't like the choices he has made to do undertake the attack. It wasn't a matter of not spending money. His acquisitions have been expensive and worse than bad.

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KW has the worst luck in finding a left handed power bat I can remember post 2005.

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KW has made it clear on several occasions in the press the amount of trust the organization places on Hahn. When he tells us that he is making the decisions, I tend to believe him.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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The problem with blindly supporting A Plan is that in copying the Cubs, there is no recognition that the Cubs got incredibly lucky with throw in players who became cornerstone pieces of the championship. So A Plan boils down to trade Sale and pray for luck as opposed to keeping Sale and relying on your player development...I just upset myself with that sentence.

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And men have lost their reason.

To their credit and unlike Bernsie, Goff and Larry acknowledged luck in the Cub plan today.

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I'm sure they can deal Jennings for a future Cy Young winner. No problem.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Cubs turned relative turds into gold by trading for players with upside. Those players realizing that upside can be credited however you want. If the guys the Cubs trade people like Feldman for never turn into Cy Young winners, its not really a surprise because Feldman wasn't that great to begin with.

The Sox need to turn gold into more gold. It has nothing to do with luck. It has everything to do with doing competent evaluations of players you are trading for. If the guys the Sox traded Sale for never pan out, that isn't luck. It's bad judgement. It would be different with a shiny turd like Frazier. But blowing a trade of Sale, Quintana, Eaton, and, to a lesser extent, Abreu is just a failure of Hahn and Kenny to evaluate players.

Agreed

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GO BEARS!!!

He's just shifting the blame.

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