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Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:29 pm They were planning on the reset but gray and Contreras didn’t want to be traded and he failed at trading Arenado so now he’s calling it a transition instead of saying the reset failed
s**t, might as well have turned it over to Bloom since he's going to end up cleaning up Mo's mess anyway.Grandpa got old and tired and was told, you be competitive in September and maybe you end up winning a WS. So, they treated it like a mature product rather than a dynamic investment. Younger Dewitt expressed the f**k you attitude towards the fans when they protested Mo's handling of the team. Like you said, this fan base, when properly handled, will print money for the ownership.An Old Friend wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:40 pmYeah... I mean... I think ownership completely lost it as it pertains to attendance and viewership declines. They saw that and decided, "well, if you're not going to come, we're not going to invest in the team"... when this fanbase CLEARLY attends and watches when they feel like ownership is TRYING TO WIN.RichieRichSTL wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:34 pmLike post-Gussie AB. Small thinking; a next generation that doesn't share the passion; doesn't talk baseball, but corporate speak; talks about 'building within and younger players' as if all teams don't try to; hires managers whom they think can control and leans heavily on nostalgia and then wonders why fans drift away.An Old Friend wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 14:56 pm Reset, transition... different semantics to describe the same approach, that being they're moving towards a small market approach and resetting their payroll baseline to reflect that new reality.
Literally, the Cardinals have only one completing local sport for much of the season-soccer. Sure St. Louis is small, but add the St. Louis and St. Charles County areas and the regional appeal, you have a good fanbase. That base has shown they will attend in droves when they feel like they are provided a good product.
Like the brewery teams of the last days, they seem content to go low-risk, low competitive.
I don't know why they lost their way, but they did without a doubt.
and yet, rather than talking to these players and their agents to find the true options, the front office went in designing a master plan, and a huge press conference on a plan that wasnt even doable.... How stupid is that?hilton head is 4 idiots wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:32 pmYep. Those 3 NTC's have all the leverage and power.Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:29 pm They were planning on the reset but gray and Contreras didn’t want to be traded and he failed at trading Arenado so now he’s calling it a transition instead of saying the reset failed
The sooner that people realize that rich people hate regular people, and really, really hate poor people, the better off we'll all be.An Old Friend wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:40 pmYeah... I mean... I think ownership completely lost it as it pertains to attendance and viewership declines. They saw that and decided, "well, if you're not going to come, we're not going to invest in the team"... when this fanbase CLEARLY attends and watches when they feel like ownership is TRYING TO WIN.
I don't know why they lost their way, but they did without a doubt.
They have a history of being very successful.imadangman wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 14:49 pm This is as much as they prepared to do before the 2020 season, before covid blew the season. They have a history of this.
Red Sox fans thought Bloom was indecisive.Diddy_KellOfBabyOil wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 16:08 pm If it's a transition then where (bleep) bc he shouldn't be making decisions out the door so Bloom is
superbly well said IMOClubmaker2 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:04 pm a rudderless ship at this point. changing its long term goal every other month to match whatever they havent gotten done lol. Or to boost ticket sales.
Again, Mo being Mo at his Mo best, he as a GM , again fails to convert assets the cardinals have, into assets the cardinals need.
All these generally useless minor league signings actually do strike me as a parade of farts.An Old Friend wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:15 pmIt would at least be more entertaining.
Come to think of it... the White Sox may be an actual fart parade. Have you seen their projected opening day rotation? My god.
It's how Mo operates. Never proactive, always reactive.Clubmaker2 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 16:09 pmand yet, rather than talking to these players and their agents to find the true options, the front office went in designing a master plan, and a huge press conference on a plan that wasnt even doable.... How stupid is that?hilton head is 4 idiots wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:32 pmYep. Those 3 NTC's have all the leverage and power.Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 15:29 pm They were planning on the reset but gray and Contreras didn’t want to be traded and he failed at trading Arenado so now he’s calling it a transition instead of saying the reset failed
+1sikeston bulldog2 wrote: ↑16 Feb 2025 16:22 pm I’m thinking the more things change, the more they stay the same.