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Price, fellow Rays making a run for the NW border

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Would Dr. D trade Nick Franklin "in the division"?  The A's seem :- ) to realize something nobody else does:

  • You can't teach EYE.  You acquire EYE.
  • Also, they need a middle infielder now.
  • Also, 2-3 WAR players at $450K are solid gold.
  • Also, 4-5 WAR players at club-controls are fairly nice.

So Nick "is a top target" for the A's.  Um, yeah.  Why wouldn't he be?  He's the quintessential Oakland A, right down to the beat-writer-irritating arrogance.

Wedge, Blengino & Co. Go Off on LincStrong & JZ

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Don't have much time, but ... that piece was a loooooong time coming.  Thanks Geoffy!

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Q.  Does the piece indicate, to you, that Zduriencik is "a bully"?

A.  Not by F-500 standards, no ... by baseball standards, apparently, he uses his authority in a way less gentle than they'd like.

Now, bear in mind, Dr. D hates bullies, hates men who pick fights with smaller men and run from fair fights.  Where there is real bullying, he's the first one to speak his mind.  But that's not what we read, in this case, not based on the content of Geoff's article.

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Jack Tatum, in They Call Me Assassin, once mocked Dick Butkus for bragging "When I hit people, I like to see them wobble back to the huddle."  Tatum scoffed, "Anybody in today's NFL knows that if you hit somebody with your best shot, and they can get back to the huddle under their own power, then you are not a hitter."

It's all a question of how you calibrate things, I guess.  I dunno how many high-ranking execs that Geoff has worked under...

Not much that was attributed to Zduriencik, in Baker's article, would have been at all unusual for the Boeing execs I worked for.  

Just f'r instance, I was puzzled, the "bullying" account that Zduriencik apologized to Fusco in the phone call, "You didn't do anything - it wasn't my call."  The exec's I've been around wouldn't have been sheepish about a firing.  No way no how, babe.

The guy who fires anybody sheepishly, that's not the bully you watch out for ... :- )  Some of these guys need to meet some execs with REAL fangs down to their chins.

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Q. Any other examples of "re-calibration" on "bully" definitions?

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