Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
50PoundHead (10-02-2017), jpx7 (10-03-2017), Knucksie (10-02-2017)
Give me Jason McLeod from the Cubs as a package deal with Dave Martinez to manage.
Hudson2 (10-02-2017)
I take it back. I sound like a UNC fan going with the "everybody does it" defense for decades of fake classes.
The Padres had their GM suspended for a month over withholding medical issues. The Redo Sox lost their international prospects over rules violations. Neither team fired an executive.
The Braves are supposedly not going to lose a prospect, meaning the punishment will be less than the Red Sox suffered, yet Coppy was ousted anyways.
Wake up and smell the "old school" LOL.
Last edited by Enscheff; 10-02-2017 at 03:44 PM.
Then you are implying there was a negotiation of some sort between the Braves and MLB. The Braves agreed with ousting Coppy rather than rallying behind him and accepting the consequences as a franchise.
There is no way to spin this other than the Braves throwing Coppy under the bus.
I fully expect pozzies to argue over the semantics of "minimal penalties" in an effort to support the FO.
Fact of the matter is the Padres and Red Sox didn't fire an executive when the team broke rules and was punished. The Braves threw Coppy under the bus before the investigation even concluded.
Nothing else needs to be said.
If Coppy broke the rules, then he needed to go
Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
If the initial reports about the severity of the rule breaking are correct, it's not really throwing Coppy under the bus. The better analogy is that Coppy has thrown himself into the road in front of the bus and we're not going to have the organization push him out of the way and take the hit instead.
There's a difference between throwing someone under the bus and letting someone take the consequences of their action.
It sounds like according to the other board with a source that might be good, the 90s brain trust might also get forced out with this investigation. They might not have a choice as they might get booted from the Braves organization.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
McGuirk ain’t going anywhere. He’s the corporate watchdog on behalf of Liberty.
I dont see Bobby going anywhere. It has to be JS or JH or hopefully both. I honestly wouldn’t mind it if Cox was interim GM. Cox helped build our farm before JS came and got all the credit.
Forever Fredi