Punishments are official

This is what is most disappointing to me about the whole thing. AJ knew better. Everyone from the players to the fans needed him to be the adult in the room and he didn’t do what needed to be done.

Unless Hinch recognized he was fighting a losing battle. At some point, he perhaps went silent and hoped it would pass with time

I certainly agree with this.

Nah, he made his money.

kinda off and on subject …I have it set to record astros bases loaded was not there some other program playing… wonder if it was once again based on the open to all media all the time hinch

Great news! Ausmus is interviewing for the manager job!

/sets more things on fire

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Feels like we have finally made it to the acceptance stage of this ordeal.

It’s part of a middle manager’s job to chew out their workers for doing things they already know are wrong. Wonder why Luhnow didn’t do it? We’re they doing worse things or maybe a desire to be liked by the players?

Please, not Ausmus…

On another note, while I hope this team goes out and smokes everyone they play, part of me feels they will be pressing so hard to prove everyone wrong, that they totally fall on their faces.

Another possibility is that the offense performs fine but the pitching becomes “Verlander and Greinke, then things get hinky”.

You know, I’m mixed about Ausmus interviewing. (And it has nothing to do with his physical appearance.)

    • His overreaction to the Marisnick slide soured me greatly.
    • He did have his own database or record keeping when he caught, so he might not be an entirely bad fit.

But 1 really did piss me off. But he did stand up for his player and these guys may really need that this upcoming season. There’s going to be a lot of shit slung at them and it will get old after a while.

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Indeed. Ausmus really is not a good manager. We can do much better.

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This is a bullshit response. Maybe you should STFU.

“Breaking the monitor twice” is an “I’m pissed that we lost, and I feel like this stupid thing they’re doing is not effective” type move (especially given our home offense woes statistically in these seasons) and not an “oh no, this is morally wrong and I should put an end to it” move.

Altuve says we’ll just go out and win it, but I wonder if that’s less of a mantra for 2020 and more of an effort to change the subject. The drive to win is already the subject of franchise criticism. Are the players not counseled on public relations when they interact with the public or journalists? You have four levels: ownership, office management, field management, and players; all operating independently

I am disappointed in Hinch. My image of him would say “ This violates the Commissioner’s directive. Stop!”

Bullshit in what way? I don’t think this whole ordeal changes anything about Reiter’s book or the process/methods he described. Nor do I think he wants a “re-do” on writing it.

Could Hinch have fired Cora in 2017? Cora was deemed essential by that time and parlayed his tenure into the BoSox job. Were Hinch’s hands tied, or would it been too disruptive in September? What would Luhnow do?

AJ should have stopped it cold. Preferably when it started, certainly after the BoSox iWatch incident.

He was the leader. He led spectacularly most of the time, but in this incredibly important area he failed. He didn’t need to fire anybody. He just needed to tell them all to stop.

Keuchel apologized today.