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04-05-2023, 07:00 PM | #137 | |
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Either way, acting like Marmol is probably the easiest way to destroy a clubhouse. **** it. I'll take O'Neill. Not like I have anything better to watch. |
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04-05-2023, 09:18 PM | #138 |
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Not to play the telephone game too much, but a friend of a friend works for Bally and they were sitting by Izzy a few weeks ago at a bar. He called Marmol a, "one who sucks the penis" who is terrible with the media, so he may be losing friends quickly.
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04-05-2023, 10:04 PM | #139 | |
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04-06-2023, 06:42 AM | #140 | |
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Did the same this with Knizner last year. Put the ****ing major league minimum backup C on blast for not hitting when he was being asked to fill in for Yafo's tubby ass when he was chilling in Puerto Rico. He's an asshole. He's always been an asshole. And he's awful at his job. But the only thing you can do to lose your job in STL is cross Mozeliak and it's clear there are no 'philosophical differences' between this lot so Marmol will be fine. |
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04-06-2023, 10:38 AM | #141 |
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04-06-2023, 12:25 PM | #142 |
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Of course the Post-Dispatch is carrying the water for Ollie. They're putting O'Neill in a bad light. This won't end well for him or the team.
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04-06-2023, 12:48 PM | #143 | |
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Here's the thing - they should've traded him last offseason. Or Carlson. They needed to move some OF depth for SP depth but Mozeliak is a pussy so they didn't. But now he's a pussy with his hands tied so he'll do something. More critically, he's a pussy with an excuse to **** up again. Since he has the PD running cover for him, in the event it blows up in his face (as virtually all his moves do) he can say it was because O'Neill wasn't a Cardinal Way Player and the BFIB will lap that shit up. Why do you think they dealt Bader after he was benched? Had Montgomery imploded and Bader been fantastic for NY, Mozeliak would've cited that benching as justification for the deal. Everything -EVERYTHING - this organization does is with an eye on PR and the bottom line. It's all they care about anymore. Winning doesn't mean shit to Bill DeWitt and it's trickled down through the organizational structure. This is simply a poorly run shop at this point. |
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04-06-2023, 12:49 PM | #144 | |
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04-06-2023, 12:57 PM | #145 | |
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And of course Hochman buried the lede:
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And it worked. It literally got one line in the very last paragraph of your column. A column that should be about how John Mozeliak has spent the better part of the last decade squandering organizational equity that took decades to build. This isn't a destination franchise anymore. The 'Cardinal Way' died with Mike Matheny and when you had a chance to revive it under Shildt, you decided to just set the corpse on fire instead. The Cardinals are just another baseball team now. With just another of those owners who cares more about profits than pennants. That's your ****ing story, Hochman. But you keep on dancing to your Cardinal overlords - the checks will keep getting deposited every other Friday. |
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04-06-2023, 01:03 PM | #146 |
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O'Neil probably wasn't running as hard as he could have, you still don't throw that out in the press, you just say we handle those type things internally if asked about it.
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04-06-2023, 05:56 PM | #147 |
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04-06-2023, 11:55 PM | #148 | |
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04-07-2023, 12:13 AM | #149 |
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04-07-2023, 08:52 AM | #150 | |
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Marmol needs to distract from his bosses failings. So he did. More people are talking about O'Neill's lack of hustle than Mikolas pitching like he belongs in AA with a new $40 million extension in his pocket, aren't they? They're running cover and throwing a player under the bus to get it done. A player they don't intend to pay when he hits FA anyway so it's no skin off their ass if they blast him publicly. |
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