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Originally Posted by raybec 4
Mo obviously doesn't understand the fan base. If he would have told everyone last year "Look, the Cubs are in a different stratosphere than we are so we're going to have to reset our club and try to catch them. It will be a couple of seasons but we'll get there." Cards fans would have understood that and we would've kept going to games. Instead of just manning up and doing it he's going to flail around like a fish out of water and cause a 5-7 year .500 streak because he refuses to get rid of bible boy and his band of apostles.
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Nah - he understands them fine. There's no way he doesn't know that.
He uses them as an excuse the same way I'll use my wife as one when I just don't feel like going out for drinks after work. "Ah, I'm sorry guys but the old ball and chain won't let me go out..." - {goes home and works in the shop while drinking beer I already paid for; never asks wife at all - knows she wouldn't have cared}
Mozeliak is unwilling to take risks that might get him fired. So what's he do? Floats this bullshit line to a willing/complicit media about how the fans wouldn't accept a rebuild. He hides behind the fans when the reality is that he doesn't have the chops/stones to commit to a rebuild that might not work. So he can keep treading water for 10 years in an era when teams are trying desperately to avoid being stuck in the middle. So in that environment, where 5 teams every year are openly tanking, it's not hard to win 80 games and say "better things are coming next year".
And that's exactly what he'll do - because having a job is better than not having one and he's unwilling to risk his.
**** him. And Matheny.