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he instituted advances in detroit's system YEARS after other organizations had done it. that's not a mark of success in my eyes. and let's not forget, avila was a top exec in the previous org who disdained such advances. and avila himself, upon taking control of the org, did not immediately implement changes and instead kept the same old fashioned regime in place for years. he was kept in his job because chris illitch didnt know any better and it was the easiest solution. and he proved ALL of us doubters right by failing to make the organization better when they were good (jordan zimmerman? mark lowe?) and then failing to capitalize on the organization's assets to make them better long term (the best return they received for the best hitter on the market and a generational pitcher is jake freaking rogers. a back up catcher.) so yes, his STINK is still being excised by this organization. and yes, if he got one right, it is mitigated by the 10 he got wrong. he is a failure as a gm and he set the tigers back a decade, and your obsessive love for every tigers prospect no matter how middling they may be will not change the results.

whatever word you want to use. you've extolled the virtues of al avila repeatedly, and said he laid the foundation for the next great detroit team. and so far, you have been wrong. you should own it instead of splitting hairs about "genius" and "1970s prospects and not 1980s team dominance."

i dont see how you can give him credit for starting things years after other teams have done it. like it waa a good thing. he was a day late and a dollar short. not every individual move was bad, but collectively they were awful. he never rebounded from his initial terrible free agent signings and inability to get a good return for the stars on the team. he was the worst gm since randy smith and led the tigers through the worst period in franchise history. his parting gift to us is the worst offensive regular player in mlb. he was a complete failure.

youre also the one who said this group of avila prospects was going to return us to 1984 type glory. no offense. i'm really at a loss as to how anyone can reasonably look at the state of the tigers for the last 8 years and say "hey, that guy did a really good job with them."

perhaps they should have looked for something besides a one year college wonder at pitcher?

i doubt it. i dont follow the baseball draft as much as the other sports. i do remember liking nick madrigal a lot and that hasnt worked out very well. but i am not a baseball gm. i am not saying that they should listen to me. i am saying his picks have not panned out yet and, as such, have not been good picks. that's what he was paid to do and he wasnt very good at it.

i like it better than the parker meadows, kody clemens, kingston liniak, adam wolf, hugh smith, eric de la rosa, and jeremiah burks picks.

don cherry, is that you?

your scouts and general managers are paid to make those decisions and not go by what's in the press. so far, mize and tork have been massive failures. however, its still very early in their careers and plenty of time to turn it around. but the "lolz everyone said they were top prospects so the fact that they didnt pan out isnt a black mark on the people who drafted them" argument doesnt fly with me. the people who drafted them are supposed to know more than keith law or baseball america. its a results based business. if they fail, the people who drafted them fail.

yeah, matt stafford is a really good qb.

i love the idea of adding monk in free agency. i loved it years ago when weaver was intent on collecting failed big men or using cap space on joe harris. now monk will be expensive. a good organization would have identified monk (or divencenzo) as potential contributors years ago. a good organization would identify that type of under-the-radar player this year. THIS organization trades assets for james wiseman. which is why the only real acquisition that matters this year is the president of basketball operations. weaver simply must be replaced.

no

it will take a few more years to get Al Avila's stink off of this organization.

don shula and bill belichick were also on the lions staff. different than front office, but still... also, jerry vianisi left to lead the wlrld league of american football...

just as an exercise, where would they go? who could afford them in a place they would actually want to play?

i'm excited about asp too, but i still worry he's too small.

PJ was almost the goat. funny how things can turn so quickly.

buy a playstation or an xbox you cheap skate.

he'll eventually be on tv as a pundit until he says something too caustic. chuck says inflammatory things but he's big, lovable charles barkley. draymond is a bully and a prick.

hope to see danielson at gr this year.

i'd rather play the bears earlier for williams' inexperience and to stay out of the cold weather.

boo. sick of thanksgiving being bears or packers.

dont do it pistons. that said, they wouldnt have enough to make the trade.

settling a case does mean you did anything wrong. we'll never know what actually happened. he could be guilty as sin or he could have settled something just to avoid the bad publicity. we'll never know.

if youre looking at pro athletes for moral upstanding fellows who never cheat on their wives, do stupid ****, or use "enhancements" you are going to be very disappointed. it takes a fair amount of self control to be that young, rich, and available to turn down a lot of life's temptations. that's dofferent than the accusations against bridges, of course. if bridges beat his girlfriend up then he should face criminal penalties, it shouldnt prevent him from working in his chosen profession if he's good enough to do so.