TMIMITM: Saving GM Ryan

[Guest]

Well our friend GM Ryan is in it deep now. At most companies, performance like we've seen over the last few years, and especially the last month, leads to a short leash on a hot seat (and a whole lot of trying to find someone else to take the fall). At a car company, if Model BB is touted as being the next great American automobile, but is taken off the market after just one month for some rejiggering by the engineers, and a German Model MK is taken out of development early but then left to stagnate, the executive in charge may be gone before either car sees daylight again. But not in the happy land of One Puckett Place, where all of the executives are above average! No, in the land of the godlike one playoff series win in 20+ years and other magical delights, the offices always smell like roses, because things most definitely roll downhill.

 

Today's current recipient of the downhill flow is one Chad Allen, who has the pleasure and the challenge of trying to fix two of the team's most valuable young hitters, Byron Buxton and Max Kepler, both of whom have suffered from the unpredictable maneuvering within the private thoughts of GM Ryan. It's like Ryan owns a couple of yachts, but he brings his guns aboard and shoots them around occasionally, leaving glaring holes, and then tells an underling it's his responsibility to make both yachts shipshape and restore them to brand new condition, and make it snappy, and "we're all going to be watching you."

 

We all hope that Lieutenant Allen can do a good job cleaning up GM Ryan's mess. If he fails to restore both yachts to mint condition, there's no telling what the ramifications to Mr. Allen may be, but it is unlikely that he will be skilled enough to make flow roll uphill, where it belongs with its originator and overseer. There is a chance that Mr. Allen is saving GM Ryan, but if he doesn't get these yachts back being prized possessions, he may be the one who is stained with the smell of failure.

[theBOMisthebomb]

We brought back Gardy... Gardy - he of the bazillion years in a row of 90+ losses. And brought him back just a little over one season after the most recent 90+ loss season. That's the mentality of this front office.