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- Colby Rasmus
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Real sports journalism from Strauss
This is a timely piece about the ongoing debate regarding the reliability of medical updates from the Cardinals. It's specifically about the situation with Holliday, but it easily reads to be about the broader debate.
One thing I like reading from Mozeliak: "I have to stand by the decision. I don't second-guess". Very important quality in a manager . . . I am involved in a project where the manager has no nerve, and second guesses everything. "What? It only took fifteen minutes to walk from this tree in the middle of B.F.E to that other tree on the other side of B.F.E.! You said it would take thirty minutes!?! You're supposed to know everything!"
Give me a fucking break!
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Re: Real sports journalism from Strauss
Good piece and thanks for posting it. However, to me, Mo and TLR come off poorly here. Take the following: "To think these decisions are made in a vacuum is erroneous," Mozeliak said. "You weigh a variety of considerations - the player's view; medical information received; the schedule; your replacement options. If you prefer to look at things in a vacuum then, sure, you'd use the disabled list willy-nilly. That's not how things work in the real world."
Nice straw man, Mo. The question is not why they didn't "use the disabled list willy-nilly"; it is why you waited two weeks to go for an MRI. I think he'd have been more honest dropping the "medical information received" clause in this instance.
Standing by a decision is admirable, but there's a fine line between resolve and blind stubbornness. "Waist deep in the Big Muddy...".
I will take heart in Strauss' confidence that the team has mended its ways and that this Holliday episode should be viewed as an anomaly.
"Press on!"
- Max
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Re: Real sports journalism from Strauss
I should have been more clear. I don't find much admirable in the way that they handled Holliday's injury.
I was commenting strictly on a boss's determination not to publicly second-guess the decisions of people under him (whether La Russa is actually under Moz is a different issue, but in theory he is). You and I are hired for a reason, and to have a boss second-guess our decisions in public undercuts our authority to continue getting our job done, and gets us looking over our shoulder and playing the PYA game . . . oh, whoops. Did I say too much about my current project?
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