I was lead in my h.s. jazz band, played more Mangione in those days (80’s).

he’s dead.

the part where Wash is out of the loop.

I am a huge Blalock fan and would love to see the guy get healthy and stay a Ranger for a long time.

That being said. If he causes Davis to be sent down then not only fuck him but fuck the front office. When Blalock first agreed/volunteered/whatever to move to 1B Davis was struggling at AAA after being promoted and Hank was supposedly a few days from returning from his hamstring injury. Since then Davis has gone on a mammoth tear, big enough to earn a promotion to the big leagues even though we had 3 guys capable of playing that position on the roster already. And Blalock has been injured twice more and has yet to actually play a game at 1B in the majors. So if he comes back and sends Davis down I am through with him and I will be pissed at the front office.

I know I have made this point a few times since the promotion but you don’t promote a 22 year old who only has a couple months above AA to the big leagues in Davis’ situation unless it is for good no matter how he performs. By Davis’ situation I mean this. he had to be added to the 40 man roster a full year and a half before he was required to be. There were already 3 healthy capable players in the majors that could play that position so its not an injury replacement thing. And there is a guy who is coming off the DL hopefully in less than a month that is slotted to be the full timer at that position.

Z is big, we are little…

nice insight into how the execs might be thinking.

Well, at leas the part about Wash doing manager shtick. Cause I really don’t think Wash is the clueless, intra-organizational laughing-stock of a sock puppet some of y’all seem to think he is.

That comment struck me as innocuous manager speak.

No more.

No less.

Moving on:

It was probably his idea to ask Blalock to move to 1B and let Vazquez play every day, so it looks pretty bad to him if he does that, then the club pushes Blalock aside for a prospect at 1B. He probably wants Blalock to know that what he promised him when Blalock agreed to move still holds true.

What leads you to believe that? Cause it seems incongruous that you believe Wash is a bumbling fool who doesn’t even get to read intra office memos, but yet is the sole decision maker in moving one of the teams most important players (and probably the most important trade chip, in terms of needing to build up value) off a position he’s played all his pro career and to a position where his value is much less.

(6’4’’ 180)

His K/BB ratio is just stupid (36/4) in 29 innings.

Yep.