I hope this is all just a bad dream and I wake up in a cold sweat soon.

This does not inspire confidence.

Does Bavasi take over in ‘09 or ‘10?

Bill Bavasi Is an idiot = 4,490 results

Walt Jocketty is an idiot = 2,850

Wayne Krivsky is an idiot = 1,320

Just sayin’.

On the bright side, he was the Angels’ GM for much of the ‘90s. Without looking it up I would guess that he was responsible for a good chunk of their championship roster. Maybe he does fine here as a second banana.

From his Wiki page:

“Forbes Magazine ranked Bavasi 87th out of 98 General Managers of professional sports with 3 or more years of experience in 2007”.

He was the lowest ranked baseball GM. Link here

are tremendous assistant coaches but lousy head coaches? Let’s hope that’s the case here. That’s the absolute best I can take from this.

I miss you, Wayner. You win, world.

with a less distinguished trade record than Bavasi. Reds fans will be glad to know, however, Bavasi has been involved with some names near and dear to our RR hearts. He traded for Quinton McCracken, Jason Ellison and Travis Chick, signed Jose Guillen, Rich Aurilia, Chris Reitsma and Eric Owens, and released Jolbert Cabrera.

This is a guy who traded Carlos Guillen for Juan Gone and Ramon Santiago. A guy who signed Richie Sexson and Jarrod Wasburn to four-year contracts. A guy who DFAd Greg Dobbs. A guy who signed Scott Spiezio. A guy who traded Matt Thornton for Joe Borchard. A guy who dealt Rafael Soriano for Horacio Ramirez. A guy Leather Pants conned into taking Jose Vidro and his lousy contract for a pair of minor leaguers. A guy who dealt Freddy Garcia for Miguel Olivo and a box of BP balls. This is the guy who pulled the trigger on a Bedard deal that Krivsky wouldn’t touch.

Looking at Bavasi’s trade history, I’m not sure he came out ahead on any deal. Is that possible?

this morning with the “Dusty has no confidence and is a coward” story. this just pushed me passed nuclear. im a Rays fan for the foreseeable future.

in which Blackadder has taken off for the New World with a crazy sea captain who hasn’t hired any crew at all for the ship

Blackadder: I was under the impression that it’s common maritime practice for a ship to have a crew?
Captain Rum: Opinion is divided on the subject…everyone else says it is; I say it isn’t.

It would be common baseball practice not to hire people who are competent at the jobs they are asked to perform. The Reds say that opinion is divided on the subject.

I now root for an organization that employs both Dusty Baker and Bill Bavasi.

I mean, at least Dusty managed some decent teams. Based on results, you could be fooled into thinking that Baker was an adequate manager. Bill Bavasi sucks. Everybody knows Bill Bavasi sucks. I mean he had a payroll of $100 million-plus, and the worst fucking record in baseball. At least when I was bitching about Krivsky, I could console myself by saying “At least we don’t employ Bill Bavasi.”

Now, we employ Bill Bavasi.

And, just to ruin your day further, consider this: Walt Jocketty is 74, and probably won’t be around much longer. Bill Bavasi is now his “Special Assistant,” and he’s 50. When Jocketty retires….....

Like I said, kill me.

I’m not real motivated by this move, but as long as he is Jocketty’s bitch then maybe things will be alright. I’m ready to let this season slide. Jocketty has inherited a mess. He has a manager and several players on the team I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want to have around. I’m dissappointed by this season at the way the owner is making management moves, but he has the GM he wants and hopefully in the offseason Jocketty (and hopefully with the help of Bavasi) can get this team back to seeing better days.

Seriously Reds. Any time you want to stop treating us like shit, g’head.

I quit. They are fucking stupid. The End. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to change my name to Duran Duran and start working on my orgasm machine.

Bob, Uncle Walt, Dustbag and BillBuzz plus DickPolehead. Cincinnati the last bastion for baseball 1985 style.