Comments on: Kim Ng Follows Torre, I Follow Kim Ng http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/03/08/kim-ng-follows-torre-i-follow-kim-ng/ Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Mon, 20 May 2013 19:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Boatzilla http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/03/08/kim-ng-follows-torre-i-follow-kim-ng/#comment-71399 Boatzilla Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:11:29 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=50863#comment-71399 [1] Here, here! I was hoping and wishing the same thing at the time. I really thought she would been the best choice. I am a closet Mariners well-wisher (I couldn't bring myself to say "fan"), because of Ichiro, and it's the only baseball my father-in-law watches, and we get so many of their awful games in Japan. [2] Who knows what might have happened? Do they get Smoaked? Do they sign Figgins? [1] Here, here! I was hoping and wishing the same thing at the time. I really thought she would been the best choice. I am a closet Mariners well-wisher (I couldn’t bring myself to say “fan”), because of Ichiro, and it’s the only baseball my father-in-law watches, and we get so many of their awful games in Japan.

[2] Who knows what might have happened? Do they get Smoaked? Do they sign Figgins?

]]> By: RIYank http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/03/08/kim-ng-follows-torre-i-follow-kim-ng/#comment-71398 RIYank Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:04:22 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=50863#comment-71398 [3] I wonder which of those jobs an average GM would prefer. People seem to think Cashman is in the really enviable position, but GMing the Yanks means you can't really ever get credit for the good and you'll definitely get blame for the bad. The upside to a GM's rep for building a team back up from the scrap heaps is huge. [3] I wonder which of those jobs an average GM would prefer. People seem to think Cashman is in the really enviable position, but GMing the Yanks means you can’t really ever get credit for the good and you’ll definitely get blame for the bad. The upside to a GM’s rep for building a team back up from the scrap heaps is huge.

]]> By: Mattpat11 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/03/08/kim-ng-follows-torre-i-follow-kim-ng/#comment-71397 Mattpat11 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:41:15 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=50863#comment-71397 [2] I think she might be better off succeeding a retiring GM than picking up the pieces of a franchise for that very reason. If (for argument's sake) she follows Cashman in five years and the Yankees are still good, it will be easier for her to slide right in and continue a program then if she's tasked with rebuilding the Astros after their latest implosion. [2] I think she might be better off succeeding a retiring GM than picking up the pieces of a franchise for that very reason. If (for argument’s sake) she follows Cashman in five years and the Yankees are still good, it will be easier for her to slide right in and continue a program then if she’s tasked with rebuilding the Astros after their latest implosion.

]]> By: RIYank http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/03/08/kim-ng-follows-torre-i-follow-kim-ng/#comment-71396 RIYank Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:22:08 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=50863#comment-71396 [1] The problem is that she's a much higher risk, from the perspective of whomever hires her. So Zduriencik is a clown; nobody blames Nintendo for that. But if the Mariners had hired a woman and she'd flopped, the media and maybe the fans would fry Howard Lincoln (or whoever was perceived to be in charge of the decision). I do think one positive sign is that nobody ever mentions Kim Ng's appearance. It's so typical to obsess about a woman's appearance when she's just got an important job, or wants one, or is running for something. The fact that hers is treated as irrelevant suggests that she might be taken more seriously, on her genuine merits. I bet she gets a GM job in the next five years. [1] The problem is that she’s a much higher risk, from the perspective of whomever hires her. So Zduriencik is a clown; nobody blames Nintendo for that. But if the Mariners had hired a woman and she’d flopped, the media and maybe the fans would fry Howard Lincoln (or whoever was perceived to be in charge of the decision).
I do think one positive sign is that nobody ever mentions Kim Ng’s appearance. It’s so typical to obsess about a woman’s appearance when she’s just got an important job, or wants one, or is running for something. The fact that hers is treated as irrelevant suggests that she might be taken more seriously, on her genuine merits.

I bet she gets a GM job in the next five years.

]]> By: Mattpat11 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2011/03/08/kim-ng-follows-torre-i-follow-kim-ng/#comment-71395 Mattpat11 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:45:54 +0000 http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=50863#comment-71395 I think we can all agree that (perhaps with the benefit of hindsight) she should have gotten the job in Seattle over the total clown show Jack Z created there. I think we can all agree that (perhaps with the benefit of hindsight) she should have gotten the job in Seattle over the total clown show Jack Z created there.

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