※ 引述《Dkr (野狗幼稚園大班)》之銘言： : http://0rz.net/150QR : 我們鄰居躲人把 DePo 趕走之後，一直在尋找新的 GM 人選。今天決定了讓我們的 : 助理 GM Ned Colletti 投入火坑當中。但願他在躲人可以過的愉快… 我最近在Columbia Spectator(哥倫比亞大學報)看到一個討論紅襪及道奇GM異動的評論 還蠻有意思的 雖然到處都有關於這兩件事的評論 而且其實這篇內容還蠻空泛的 不過是以一個美國大學生的觀點來這兩件事 所以大家看看就好 笑一下也不錯~~~ (沒有連結 所以我用打的) 如果想知道我們家的GM從那混出來的 最後在跟你說 :P "Baseball Decides Dumber is Better" ------ Jake Olson, Nov 1, 2005 For those of us juniors who, like me, have decided to sell our souls, it's that time of year. Midterms have wrapped up, and now all the big I-banks start heading to campus to recruit the next round of overpaid, under-rested analysts. I keep hearing about the advantages we all have, given our prestigious Ivy League status, but I couldn't help but notice that probably the two most prominent Ivy Leaguers in the sports world are both now unemployed. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Major League Baseball: the only industry in America where an Ivy League degree hurts you on the job market. The news that the Satanic baby-eaters who now own my Dodgers decided to can their GM, Harvard alum Paul DePodesta, after a whole two years on the job, came as a frustrating and depressing shock. Sure, the Dodgers -- plagued by the more than 1,400 player games they lost to injury -- had their worst season since 1992, going 71-91. But DePodesta, unlike basically everyone associated with the Dodgers front office since 1998, actually had a long-term plan to implement, one that was smart, well-rounded, and fiscally responsible. On some level, I can understand why DePodesta was fired. It's analogous to the way I can understand how someone might believe in intelligent design: I don't respect them, and I think that they have absolutely no grasp on reality, but I can kind of see where they're coming from. But the fate of the sports' most famous Yale grad, former Red Sox GM Theo Epstein, absolutely stumps me. To go Paul Maguire on you, you're talking about a guy at the top of his profession, working his dream job, about to make tons of money, and living as the most eligible bachelor in Boston (although, to be fair, that's a bit like being the wealthiest man in Flint) -- and he walks away from it all. The more vexing question, though, is this: why did the Red Sox not do everything in their power to retain the architect of their first champion- ship team in... wait, how many years was it again? I can never remember. So now that Epstein and DePodesta are gone, new Rangers GM Jon Daniels, a Cornell grad, is the only Ivy grad at the helm of a Major League front office. Several assistant GMs, team presidents, and owners hail from the Ancient Eight, but the only wheeler-and-dealer left is Daniels, who's been on the job for less than a month now. Have Major League front offices been so stupid as to absorb the media backlash against the Moneyball movement and realign their organizational structures accordingly? The backlash, led in L.A. by the despicable Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times, played a major part in the downfall of DePodesta. Plaschke's main problems with DePodesta were, in order: that he used a laptop computer, and that he went to Harvard. Now I know that we've become a pretty anti- intellectual country (see: intelligent design), but that's just absurd. Since when is education a detriment? This isn't even an instance of baseball's old guard being averse to new ideas -- the philosophy espoused by Epstein, DePodesta, Beane et al. is pretty widely accepted to be an effective way of running a baseball team. If it wasn't, then some sort of statistical analysis wouldn't be employed by nearly every team. For the life of me, I can't figure out why the baseball establishment has decided to shun DePodesta and Epstein, two of the brighter young front office talents in the game. But I know that, after spending the last few years of my life wanting to follow their footsteps, I'm glad I decided to sell my soul. At least Wall Street appreciates intelligence. Or connections. -------- Jake Olson is a Columbia College junior majoring in American Studies. Send any comments to [email protected] Answer: Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, FL) --

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