Quote:Allowing the process to happen doesn't mean someone is endorsing the process.  Giving someone the benefit of the doubt to let things pan out or not is hardly a great defense. 

 

I know this is a difficult concept for some of you, but you can't demand they blow it up every year and expect anything to improve.  You have to let the process happen in order to come to a conclusion. 

 

Nobody thought Gene Smith was useless when he was promoted.  Many actually celebrated that move by Weaver because they were so angry about Shack Harris, who wasn't nearly as bad as the same message board geniuses wanted to portray.  He wasn't good, but a lot of his guys were still contributing after he left.

 

Smith was considered one of the better scouts in the league.  Unfortunately, that didn't translate to being the guy making the decisions. 

 

Tell me this? Do you have to give the smell of [BLEEP] the benefit of doubt? I mean, if during the process it smells like a hot steaming turd, it looks like a hot steaming turd, do I really need to give it the benefit of doubt that it may not be a turd? Gene was awful from the get go, in the draft and FA. He was also part of the old regime. I have no idea why they promoted him.

 

This current organization has lost 26 games and would need to somehow win the next 16 games to even break even in year 4. That is ridiculous.

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