in a row

I saw it in the theatre, I’ll need to pick up the dvd

Please understand that I’m not defending the FO here. I’m just saying that I hope it goes without saying that we all know the FO has access to data that we probably don’t have.

I’m pretty clearly on the side of those hoping to see more Marte.

So, to draw a parallel, if your son drops out of college, you’re a failure and if your son graduates from Princeton you are a genius. It doesn’t matter whether he’s born with an iq of 90 or 140, it’s all on how you raised him.
The result of Marte’s success or failure rests as much on his shoulders as mgmt’s. If Marte fails, perhaps mgmt did as well as they can, if he succeeds it may be despite his mishandling. The team has some kind of process that they believe in and hope that it yields the most positive results. It’s fun to believe that we, as super interested fans, can see benefits to a move that mgmt doesn’t. Maybe we can.

If all we cared about were results, all we got is 2007 = 96/66. 2008 is not written. Not much else to discuss, really, cuz we stopped caring how they got there, only that they got there.

What if he ends up doing oil changes on Pearl and Ridge, I got a dude who was doing that for 8 yrs.

Cuz they ain’t flawless?

Speaking from my own experience, there are roles where you have to trust in the person and the process, where overruling someone on one point or another ultimately does more harm than good.

I employ engineers and producers at my studio, and so while our clients by and large hire the studio (ultimately me) to produce their recordings, at some point I generally assign a specific person to be the Producer and/or principal engineer of a project. The majority of the time, I am not even in the room. I set things in motion, connect artists with highly capable people, and then step back. For those moments when I’m in the room, I disagree with lots and lots of the little details of what’s going on, but for the most part, I say nothing. I trust the professionals to do their jobs—after all, I picked them. If I was routinely over-ruling my staff, good records simply could not get made, because the relationship between the producer and recording artist is paramount to the process.

I think GM’s generally are in the same boat with their managers. They might expect to discuss usage patterns, but if a GM doesn’t fundamentally trust his manager well enough to just step back and let him do his job, then he’s got the wrong manager. My sense is that Shapiro feels not that Wedge does everything that he would do, but that Wedge is open to input from Shapiro and others, and grasps that input completely, and beyond that is in a better position than Shapiro to know who can bunt and who can’t, or whatever.

The manager might not do everything right, but managing the manager is probably a losing proposition. If the manager isn’t showed respect by the GM, how can the manager possibly command the respect of his players?

PS Maybe I need to get a job with a heavier workload….