Whaaaaaaat?!?! I’ve been under a rock, totally just read this (haven’t opened Twitter today). What the frickin crap?!?!
Whaaaaaaat?!?! I’ve been under a rock, totally just read this (haven’t opened Twitter today). What the frickin crap?!?!
JohnAdcox (10-02-2017)
FreemanFan (10-02-2017), Jaw (10-02-2017), JohnAdcox (10-02-2017)
Hmm, could open the doors for some trades in the future that might otherwise not have occurred under Coppy. On the other hand, maybe they're just bitching because Coppy refused to trade our top prospects....
This mess is turning into a circular firing squad. What a fiasco.
Hawk (10-02-2017)
Stop saying the Braves. It's the two headed monster up top in JS and JH.
People need to stop thinking Bobby is involved in this. There's no coincidence Bobby has kind of faded into the shadows more since Fredi was fired. He told Fredi "I had no idea" that he was going to get canned. People think Bobby is still responsible for Snitker being the manager here. I wouldn't be surprised if Coppy was canned because he wanted to fire Snitker, in the same way Wren was canned for trying to fire Fredi.
What infuriates me more is if Coppy and Wren were also fired because they were trying to advance the team's strategy and more into sabermetrics which all of the top teams have done, and JS and JH the old school guys didn't want anything to do with it and want to keep this Braves Way non-sense.
Forever Fredi
Dalyn (10-02-2017), WaitingFor2017 (10-02-2017)
zedsdead (10-02-2017)
If you meet an asshole one day, you've met an asshole. If you meet an asshole every day, maybe you're the asshole.
BoneThrower (10-03-2017), bravesnumberone (10-03-2017), Chico (10-02-2017), Dalyn (10-02-2017), DirkPiggler (10-02-2017), FreemanFan (10-02-2017), Hawk (10-02-2017), Jaw (10-02-2017), JohnAdcox (10-02-2017)
LOL every single bit of info that pointed to problems in the FO was brushed under the rug by you and every other pozzy mouth breather.
It was clear to anyone with half a brain that there were major issues in the FO. Obviously we didn't know what the issues were, but it was blatantly clear the FO was not a smoothly running operation.
There were so many contradictory and sub-optimal moves it was clear to anyone with half a damn brain that everyone was not pulling in the same direction.
bravesnumberone (10-03-2017), Horsehide Harry (10-02-2017)
On the bright side, it's going to be a lot of fun following the process of hiring a new GM for a job that has to be considered one of the better ones in baseball.
You get to pick your own manager, you have the best farm in baseball, long term payroll flexibility with a new stadium.
Furthermore, we will get an outsiders unbiased perspective on some of these young players.
Now is the time for the Braves to go after a real analytics guy.
JohnAdcox (10-02-2017)
Silver lining here is that I really hated “Coppy” as a nickname.
BoneThrower (10-03-2017), dak (10-02-2017), Dalyn (10-02-2017), FreemanFan (10-02-2017), Jaw (10-02-2017), JohnAdcox (10-02-2017), The Chosen One (10-02-2017)
This is crazy...we better not lose maitan
Get off my lawn!
JohnAdcox (10-02-2017)
What are you even talking about?
Coppy broke MLB rules, was investigated by MLB, and they clearly found that rules were broken. If the talk of him being bad to employees and hated by his peers is coming from the Braves, then obviously it's the same old badmouthing the guy walking out the door. But the indications I've seen from writers so far seems to be that this is coming from others in the industry, which would make since because this is not a move the Braves are willingly making on their own.
I'm sure there will be badmouthing of Coppy by the organization, unfortunately. I just don't think what we've seen so far is that.