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Great job, Boily. Good luck today. Check out this column in the LATimes today, pretty much sums up my feelings for Evans. I hope he gets booted out of town this off-season. Pompous jackass.
Dodgers Pay the Price for White Sox's Wisdom
Three years ago, Chicago White Sox ownership had to make a decision, and so it passed over assistant GM Dan Evans, and promoted Ken Williams, the team's farm director, and made him general manager.
Evans quit, and the rest has become more Dodger wretched history.
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On July 1 ? 30 days before everyone else waited for the trading deadline? Williams made deals for Roberto Alomar and Carl Everett. The White Sox were in third place at the time, and writing a day later in the Chicago Sun-Times, reporter Toni Ginnetti said, "Both deals drew positive reaction from the Sox who have seen their playoff hopes revived in the last two weeks."
The White Sox were seven games out of first place July 17, but re-energized, they were tied for first Friday, and are the hottest team in baseball.
Williams traded seldom-used reliever Gary Glover and eight minor leaguers to acquire Alomar from the New York Mets, Everett from the Texas Rangers and Scott Schoeneweis from the Angels. The Mets agreed to pay $3.75 million of Alomar's $3.9-million salary, and the Rangers picked up a portion of Everett's pay, so Williams did not dramatically increase the payroll. There is a way to get things done.
MLB.com's Jim Molony wrote this week that the White Sox "gave up a few solid prospects in the bunch, but this is a team with a chance to go far in the postseason and Williams wasn't about to hold back."
Chicago apparently knew what it was doing when it selected its GM.
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EVANS, MEANWHILE, has overseen the biggest collapse this season ? the Dodgers even with the Giants on June 21 and holding a big lead for the wild card ? now behind San Francisco by 13 1/2 games, and trailing Philadelphia, St. Louis, Arizona, Chicago, Florida and Montreal for the wild card.
Evans waited and waited, while he consulted with his staff. The Dodgers have an unusually large number of scouts because Evans doesn't have a strong scouting background, and obviously doesn't have an eye for talent.
Need proof: James Baldwin, McKay Christensen, Mike Trombley, Tyler Houston, Fred McGriff, Todd Hundley, Terry Mulholland, Daryle Ward, Chad Hermansen, Rickety Henderson and Jeromy Burnitz.
Oh, add one more name: Robin Ventura. The way things have gone lately, Evans has passed Donald Sterling as the biggest waste of executive space in town.
Gary Sheffield, Mark Grudzielanek, Eric Karros and Marquis Grissom ? all shipped out of town by Evans, are hitting above .300. No Dodger hitter is hitting. 300 or better. The team that needed hitting desperately received no significant help.
The Dodgers might be sold. Maybe Evans' hands are tied. Maybe it's bad luck. Maybe he didn't have the prospects to deal, but whatever, he has failed miserably to answer the alarm.
And the Dodgers/51s have become a big local turn off ? falling below .500, and on the heels of Kevin Malone's induction, the Dodgers' Hall of Shame is getting pretty crowded these days.
Dodgers Pay the Price for White Sox's Wisdom
Three years ago, Chicago White Sox ownership had to make a decision, and so it passed over assistant GM Dan Evans, and promoted Ken Williams, the team's farm director, and made him general manager.
Evans quit, and the rest has become more Dodger wretched history.
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On July 1 ? 30 days before everyone else waited for the trading deadline? Williams made deals for Roberto Alomar and Carl Everett. The White Sox were in third place at the time, and writing a day later in the Chicago Sun-Times, reporter Toni Ginnetti said, "Both deals drew positive reaction from the Sox who have seen their playoff hopes revived in the last two weeks."
The White Sox were seven games out of first place July 17, but re-energized, they were tied for first Friday, and are the hottest team in baseball.
Williams traded seldom-used reliever Gary Glover and eight minor leaguers to acquire Alomar from the New York Mets, Everett from the Texas Rangers and Scott Schoeneweis from the Angels. The Mets agreed to pay $3.75 million of Alomar's $3.9-million salary, and the Rangers picked up a portion of Everett's pay, so Williams did not dramatically increase the payroll. There is a way to get things done.
MLB.com's Jim Molony wrote this week that the White Sox "gave up a few solid prospects in the bunch, but this is a team with a chance to go far in the postseason and Williams wasn't about to hold back."
Chicago apparently knew what it was doing when it selected its GM.
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EVANS, MEANWHILE, has overseen the biggest collapse this season ? the Dodgers even with the Giants on June 21 and holding a big lead for the wild card ? now behind San Francisco by 13 1/2 games, and trailing Philadelphia, St. Louis, Arizona, Chicago, Florida and Montreal for the wild card.
Evans waited and waited, while he consulted with his staff. The Dodgers have an unusually large number of scouts because Evans doesn't have a strong scouting background, and obviously doesn't have an eye for talent.
Need proof: James Baldwin, McKay Christensen, Mike Trombley, Tyler Houston, Fred McGriff, Todd Hundley, Terry Mulholland, Daryle Ward, Chad Hermansen, Rickety Henderson and Jeromy Burnitz.
Oh, add one more name: Robin Ventura. The way things have gone lately, Evans has passed Donald Sterling as the biggest waste of executive space in town.
Gary Sheffield, Mark Grudzielanek, Eric Karros and Marquis Grissom ? all shipped out of town by Evans, are hitting above .300. No Dodger hitter is hitting. 300 or better. The team that needed hitting desperately received no significant help.
The Dodgers might be sold. Maybe Evans' hands are tied. Maybe it's bad luck. Maybe he didn't have the prospects to deal, but whatever, he has failed miserably to answer the alarm.
And the Dodgers/51s have become a big local turn off ? falling below .500, and on the heels of Kevin Malone's induction, the Dodgers' Hall of Shame is getting pretty crowded these days.
Good read dubbs. Pretty well sums it up. I say why wait till the end of the season to fire his ass. Do it now. Start releasing some of the worthless old bastards and bring in the kids from the farms. They can't do any worse than this rag tag bunch are doing.
This year is over for them. Time to look to the future.
This year is over for them. Time to look to the future.
Adding the rest of todays plays.
Milw +128
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Clev/Tex under 11 -110
Good Luck Gentlemen
Milw +128
Col +102
Arz +110
Tor/Ana under 9 -115
Clev/Tex under 11 -110
Good Luck Gentlemen
