(01-17-2025, 03:45 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(01-17-2025, 03:39 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: Well the most probable scenarios are likely:

• Shad is operating using the least path of resistance like you are stating.
  
• Shad is a poor trust of character/expertise/reading people and get's hoodwinked by people like Baalke, Caldwell, Meyer, etc.; especially when he believes he has "found his guy"
  
• There is way more going on beyond the scenes as to who is making decisions, the conversations about those decisions, and the timeline of those decisions. 
  

One thing about Shad's press conferences are that, he generally appears to be trying to show confidence and stability. While that could be something you fake if the team is an afterthought for him that he doesn't care about, that scenario seems less likely. Especially given how much effort he has put in with Lamping on the business side of things. 

In the last PC, he seemed to show the most amount of frustration with the questions being asked and "the attitude" that the media was showing him regarding the current announcement. That leads me to believe it is some combination of the 2nd and 3rd but it is impossible to know in what ratio.

Speaking of Lamping, I wonder if Lamping gives him any advice on this coaching/GM question.

He is technically the team president so I'm sure he gives some advice. 

Also, he has a lifetime in sports management/FO's. Even if he can't break down X's & O's, I'm sure Lamping can get a read on the leadership/management styles and culture characteristics for things to look for or avoid even if most of his "team success" was when he was running the St. Louis Cardinals.

---