Some is slighly amiss, surely. Doc's vague feeling that we're snakebit probably describes it spot on. This was supposed to be "the" team, wasn't it?
I've been patient, as I think the M's have a 15-5 streak in them, or would with a bit of tweaking. But my frustration will begin soon if we don't make some moves to bring that streak along.
Jackson's arrival will drive me nuts.....but I know he's one of The Skip's guys. I think it was McClendon who wanted him. If so, then his dismal-ity is on Lloyd. I want Weeks gone because he is absolutely a black hole (SSS, agreed) against RHP and has no position with us.
I want Cano in the #2 spot. He's a man, He'll understand. Lloyd needs to man up and make that move.
I want somebody in to bring some RHB 1B help for LoMo, who has fallen to the cringe-worthy LoMo for the last two weeks (.189-.333-.324) and is mashing lefties to a .486 clip on the year. If a manager can't recognize THAT weakness and also recognize that he has 3 RHB options in Tacoma who play 1B then he's missing something large. 2 of those Tacoma guys bring multi-positional gloves, as well.
I want Lloyd pushing Jack Z. to make those decisions. If HE's not doing that, I want Z to pull the Billy Beane move and get rid of dead weight, now.
In 2002 Carlos Pena got 39 games in at 1B, before BB moved him out (he was actually sent down before being traded) and gave the job to Hatteberg. Let's make such a move.
But I digress: I'm not sure that McClendon is losing us any games.....but I'm not seeing him winning us any either. That is, afterall, his job. Happ, Cruz, Weeks, Ruggiano: Z made those decisions, off season, and had supposedly stacked the team. It wasn't so. Now somebody....anybody....make the next set of decisions that end this purgatory in which we exist.
Is the big decision to be made one that brings in Joe Torre or Jim Leyland (Wouldn't that be wild? Two days ago he was rumored to be in consideration by the Marlins, btw)? Maybe...it wouldn't hurt, if you know what I mean.
But we're floating on the lazy river right now. Clearly we should have an idea of personnel. If Lloyd likes these guys...we'll know it when the M's return mid-week. That would be the point to make a roster change.
A few days and we'll know....something.
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