Hillbilly wrote:Congratulations, TF. You just spent several minutes researching a post to defend a guy who wouldn't walk out of his way to spit on you if you were on fire.
Again, not to get into a spitting match, but that post was not at all a defense of Chris Perez, if I correctly interpret that was your point.
I lived in the Bay Area and likely attended 40 to 60 plus games in Oakland in those years, before I could easily watch The Tribe via the internet. I watched more A's baseball on TV, and on occasion checked in on Barry Bonds and "splash downs" in the same years.
I was hooked on A's Baseball as another team to follow when I learned Ray Fosse did the broadcasts.
I knew where Isringhausen, Koch and Foulke came from....and the circumstances. I only had to double check the salary amounts for specifics.
If I had any point in that post, and I did, it was that I think our current Cleveland Indians Franchise will not be better at any time in the future with Mark Shapiro as President.
My belief and opinion is that no one could possibly do any worse, and that Mark Shapiro is a bleak path to follow based upon his track record of 2 for 11 winning seasons, or something similar, and likely to grow worse on that stat.
Anyone would be better, and certainly not worse than where we are now as an organization with Mark Shapiro in late August 2012.
I've offered up once or twice before recently for someone to refute me in that belief about the futility of Mark Shapiro in the future, hoping someone had an angle for drafts or trades or player development, or convincing the owner to dig a little deeper ("to make up for my prior bad contracts") I had not previously considered.
Thus far, no one here has offered up any attempt at optimism for Cleveland Indians future with Mark Shapiro as General Manager, or President.
