Originally Posted by StLee
Yeah, I was hoping they would start off as baseball gods. I mean, the Diamond City Swatters were at the top of my list for team names. Number one. Had to be. And then who else to lead the Swatters than Moe Cronin himself? Now, Moe begged Nate to stay as manager. He was almost willing to sell the team to become its manager. Nate told him he needed to be owner, that's where Moe needed to be. Moe has a problem of taking new information and adopting that information as though he always knew it. Nate tried to explain to him the concept of small ball, in which Moe is definitely not a fan, by the way. However, Moe knew nothing about small ball. Never imagined the concept. And then he started rattling off about how his coach in grade school tried small ball tactics and it cost them the Atlantic championship. We all know Moe didn't even know what happened in the sport of baseball before Nate told him. We also know that no one was PLAYING baseball before Nate and the Mysterious Stranger got that all started up. So Moe spouting off about small ball in the Atlantic, or, as I'm guessing, along the Atlantic, is utter nonsense.
Moe also has not learned from his past mistakes. His personnel is one of the most questionable around the league. He hired old Tommy Doddy, his friend, as GM, as well as his friend Mike Birtwell as his bench coach. Moe wanted Birtwell as the manager, but Nate overruled that one, said he wants competitive teams, not ones led by rambling idiots. Moe had no choice but to hire a different manager, but he may have picked the 24th best one, Bucky Bachelor. Bucky had his time, and now at 48 he thinks the ladies are swooning over him in his position of power. If he would spend more time shuffling the lineup cards to find the right mix, he might win more games. Instead, he's out blowing kisses and drinking at Mike 'N' Ike's bar after the games telling how great he did or how it was someone else's fault when his team lost. The hitting coach Brandon Jones and pitching coach Brent Younger are no better. Where they lack in experience they make up for in apathy.
All these problems with how the Swatters are operated, last in their league, only a game up on the CBO's two worst teams in 2297, Atom and Jamaica Plain, and then I look at Moe's mood and he's ecstatic. Ecstatic! Your team is .333, you galoot. You wanted the team to improve its OBP because now you're the world's expert on OBP, which you first thought meant "Other Baseball People," and your team went from 4th last season to currently 6th. You want your team to play CLOSE to .500 ball, but they're seven away in 21 games, and you're ECSTATIC?!? I am pissed. Nate should be pissed, too, and boot Moe's incompetent ass right out of the league. At this rate, the best thing about the team will always be the stadium they play in. The team itself is a hot mess right now and not looking up in 2297, and probably no time soon after that. The Sox may win another championship before the Swatters do; it's that bad.
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