00:00Is this worse than 2012? I think it is.
00:03Yeah.
00:04I think it is, and I think the reason why I feel that way about it is because
00:11it feels like this would have been easy to prevent.
00:16Does that make sense?
00:18Yes. Well, it starts with up top, though, doesn't it?
00:21Like, back in 2012, you still believed that this ownership group cared about winning at a high level
00:26and that there was going to be a sense of urgency to fix what was wrong.
00:31Right. The problem is the owner never speaks.
00:34The president shovels horse crap to you every week,
00:39and there's no communication, it seems, between the chief baseball officer and the team.
00:43You talk about getting an interpreter or they're never on the same page.
00:47How are you not on the same page with injuries?
00:49With your two most important players, your number one pitcher and your best bat.
00:57They really don't have answers for it, or it's mixed answers week to week.
01:01And I get it. Every team fudges injuries.
01:04But Jesus, from an internal standpoint, they're not even close on what comes out of their mouth
01:09to the point they've got to walk stuff back because the players get pissed.
01:15This is sort of dysfunctional.
01:17I mean, 2012 was dysfunctional.
01:19Yeah, but didn't it feel like you were like, all right, you know what?
01:22You guys went for Bobby Valentine. It was a swing and a miss.
01:24You still have Detroit. You've got leaders.
01:26You've got to restart this thing.
01:28But they also may have done that knowing, hey, we just need a guy that we're going to fire in
01:32a year.
01:32We want John Farrell.
01:33I think everyone knew they wanted John Farrell, but he wasn't going to be available yet.
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