Analyzing the Hiring Process

[Colby]

Chris, can you chill? It looks like we need to kick LTD out then.  He could have been a good member... Guy exchanged 50 plus emails with Corey about the league and the team.  What a shame.

[joeshmoe]

Chris, can you chill? It looks like we need to kick LTD out then.  He could have been a good member... Guy exchanged 50 plus emails with Corey about the league and the team.  What a shame.

Whatever, make me seem like bad guy here.  I'm sorry but that hiring was way out of line compared to the past year I've seen.  Give him the team, emails sent in private should be the source for hiring for the future.  Considering the way things went down I don't even want the yankees anymore.  Had the offer been made to me in a genuine sense I would have gladly accepted it.  Just irritating. 

[Mr.TradeKing]

Chris, I have two problems with you being upset.

1.) Corey is the one really hurting. He went from the Yankees to the Mets.
2.) Corey did this for the betterment of the LEAGUE (which includes you). We have gone "0-fer" with the Mets as it is hard to get committed GMs to start out in a rebuilding process. Now, we finally have a full league, instead trying to find some to fill the Padres.

~MTK

[joeshmoe]

Chris, I have two problems with you being upset.

1.) Corey is the one really hurting. He went from the Yankees to the Mets.
2.) Corey did this for the betterment of the LEAGUE (which includes you). We have gone "0-fer" with the Mets as it is hard to get committed GMs to start out in a rebuilding process. Now, we finally have a full league, instead trying to find some to fill the Padres.

~MTK

1.)  That was Corey's choice.  I do not feel bad for him. 
2.)  The excuse, betterment of the league, doesn't apply.  Corey could have gone to the Mets with or without the way it went down.  And, needing to fill the Padres as a reason why I shouldn't be able to move teams is pathetic.  Sorry I'd like to take a team with a better chance in the league.  Easy to say, Aubrey, as your team does a nice job in the league.  For a GM of a bottom team, it'd be nice for a change of scenery. 

Both your problems seem to be rather lack-luster in really understanding why I was upset.

[Colby]

MTK is spot on why I made this decision and supported Corey.  We could have a very good GM in LTD who will be very active. 

[shooter47]

I'm new here and don't want to step on anyones toes or jump into a discussion I'm not a part of but I can see the reasoning for the hiring of the new GM.  It's easier to attract a new participant to the league if they get a good team to start with. Finding a person who is willing to take over a good team like the Yankees is easier then it is to find someone up to the task of re-building the Mets.  In my opinion it makes the league stronger by getting a new GM who will likely stay long term and a good GM running the Mets.  I was willing to take over the Orioles to get into the league and for the challenge.  I can see how alot of new GM's would be unwilling to do this or leave shortly after accepting the challenge because they don't have the patience.

[Colby]

I sent this privately to Chris, but it is worth going public in case others are offended...

Chris, sorry about the latest hiring in FGM.  I need to make hirings that are best for the league some times.  The Padres, Mets, Nationals, Orioles, Mariners, Cubs and some other organizations are fragile franchises.  They need to be handled with care.  LTD definitely proved his activity through all of the emails but he only wanted the Yankees.  This was an opportunity to bring a new member who could become very dedicated into ProFSL. 


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With all of that said, any active and good member of a bad team shouldn't be handicapped and never given a chance.  Normally Chris would have a chance but I made an executive decision in hiring LTD.

[joeshmoe]

I'm new here and don't want to step on anyones toes or jump into a discussion I'm not a part of but I can see the reasoning for the hiring of the new GM.  It's easier to attract a new participant to the league if they get a good team to start with. Finding a person who is willing to take over a good team like the Yankees is easier then it is to find someone up to the task of re-building the Mets.  In my opinion it makes the league stronger by getting a new GM who will likely stay long term and a good GM running the Mets.  I was willing to take over the Orioles to get into the league and for the challenge.  I can see how alot of new GM's would be unwilling to do this or leave shortly after accepting the challenge because they don't have the patience.

Again a moot point.  There is no correlation to a good gm and a good team.  I am a fine GM, active here for over a year, and when I took the Padres (as my first team) they were rancid.  Still, I am here.  If the only way to get new guys is by giving them the best job; we will have a stupid system of recruitment.  In other words; all veteran GMs should now step down to the worst teams so bad GMs will stay in the league.

If a GM isnt active why would we want them to run a good team?  Why do we want a bad GM on any team?  We don't.  Good GMs don't quit because their team is bad.  I can't agree with any argument of why the Yankees being a good team are more likely to retain a GM, or create a better GM. 

[joeshmoe]

I sent this privately to Chris, but it is worth going public in case others are offended...

Chris, sorry about the latest hiring in FGM.  I need to make hirings that are best for the league some times.  The Padres, Mets, Nationals, Orioles, Mariners, Cubs and some other organizations are fragile franchises.  They need to be handled with care.  LTD definitely proved his activity through all of the emails but he only wanted the Yankees.  This was an opportunity to bring a new member who could become very dedicated into ProFSL. 


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With all of that said, any active and good member of a bad team shouldn't be handicapped and never given a chance.  Normally Chris would have a chance but I made an executive decision in hiring LTD.

I replied that it's nothing personal with anybody. 

[MillerTime]

I think Chris should be offered the next GM opening, if he would like it.  I am not sure the league knew that he was unhappy in SD.

To bring humor to the subject, I do not believe that a Red Sox fan can be the GM of the Yanks, under any circumstances.  We would have had to report this to the Sons of Sam Horn and they would have taken your Red Sox Hat, Jersey, the Bill Buckner VCR tape, and the DVDs of the Championships as well.  Just kidding.