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Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Edgy DC Nov 12 2010 11:48 AM

A scenario occurred to me in the bathroom just now, where all the clearest thoughts come: Bud Selig retires in 2012, and Sandy Alderson returns to the commissioner's office as MLB's top man. Whether or not that sequence comes to pass, it's not hard to envision Sandy as a short-timer, grooming his two experienced lieutenants as potential successors. So, knowing as little as we do about what they're going to bring to the team, which do you think the job would fall to?

Valadius Nov 12 2010 11:55 AM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Neither. Or they could do that weird thing the Red Sox did when Theo Epstein took a few months off to go play rock music and make them co-GMs.

metirish Nov 12 2010 12:09 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

I would think that Selig's successor will be another yes man, anyway didn't Selig's #2 Bob DuPuy step down/get fired recently apparently because he assumed wrongly that he was next in line for the job. Bud it seems ain't going anywhere soon. My pick is George Bush as the next Commissioner

Edgy DC Nov 12 2010 12:13 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Bud declared his through-ness when he signed his last contract. He could go back on that (he has before), but he's a dinosaur, everybody knows it, and the owners who backed his ascendency are dying or weakening.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 12 2010 12:18 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

I predict John Mutherfuckin Ricco will backstab his way back to the top.

Edgy DC Nov 12 2010 12:26 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

That would be fucking awesome. "I don't care how much of your precious process and stinking normalcy you bring to this fucking madhouse. The dysfunction of the old guard will reign as long as there is BREATH IN MY BODY!"

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 12 2010 12:34 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

For some reason, I can't help picturing the shower fight in Eastern Promises.

soupcan Nov 12 2010 12:40 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Except without Ricco's balls flailing all over the place, right?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 12 2010 12:43 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Um... sure.

seawolf17 Nov 12 2010 01:34 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Dude, they haven't even had time to take the bubble wrap off their new computers yet.

Ceetar Nov 12 2010 01:48 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

seawolf17 wrote: Dude, they haven't even had time to take the bubble wrap off their new computers yet. They say by the time you boot up your windows computer it's possible to get half a dozen viruses.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 12 2010 02:04 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

I think that Sandy will stick around for the four years of his contract. George W. Bush as Commissioner doesn't seem entirely unlikely. (I just wish he had taken that job ten years ago instead of the job that he did get.)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 12 2010 02:08 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

Whatshisname from the Nationals is to be the next Commish, I think. I understood he was leaving the Nats with an unnamed job in mind: If not the Mets, then...

Edgy DC Nov 12 2010 02:20 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

seawolf17 wrote: Dude, they haven't even had time to take the bubble wrap off their new computers yet. Listen, do you want to come to the bathroom with me? I go, I elminate, I come back with notions, and you're not there to set me straight.

Ashie62 Nov 12 2010 02:24 PM Re: Ricciardi v. DePodesta

After reflecting upon 3 consecutive World Championships won by the Metropolitans Sandy will pass the reins to Theo Epstein.