00:00hey the angels finally seem to have some direction as we think we don't know i say we think because
00:07genuinely uh some bizarre stuff has been happening the last decade or so with the angels tom so perry
00:13manesian uh has been fired as the general manager of the angels whether or not honestly tom uh all
00:19these decisions were his i have no idea they don't appear to be but let's just say they were his
00:24and
00:24he ended up falling on the sword for stuff so john mosellac comes in and mosellac says that he is
00:31uh there on the interim basis to try and find some new leadership and in an interview said that he
00:37hadn't even spoken to arty marino before he got hired so i'm guessing this was his son i don't even
00:41know
00:42uh but the angels could use a guy like mo to at least write the ship now i don't know
00:48that mo
00:48is the answer for the cardinals for the next 10 years because the game certainly has changed mo
00:53probably ends up in the national baseball hall of fame as a general manager who won a bunch of
00:57world series with st louis uh drafted and developed a lot of players that went on to the big leagues
01:01but talk about having work cut out for him i i mean i i would say that this is probably
01:07the
01:08toughest gig in baseball to be a gm over because i just can't figure out the direction of where they're
01:13headed you know a couple thoughts about you know angels firing me easy and i would say okay what took
01:19so
01:20long you know it's not like anything was different this year than it was you know a year year ago
01:24or
01:25a year before that he's been there for you know five and a half six seasons whatever you want to
01:28call it but ultimately it's going to come down to our moreno because the team has no direction and
01:33they continue to make bad decisions they systemically from the top down they have had an awful direction
01:39for multiple years whether it was not trading shohei otani when they could have gotten assets back for
01:45that remember we brought it up for break they had shohei otani and they did nothing couldn't even
01:49make the playoffs ruining the years of mike trout and not make the playoffs he only been to the
01:54playoffs once and played three total career playoff games what is the team going to do because if you
01:59just want to be there to be a check to cash in every year so he can make some money
02:04moreno is the
02:05owner i don't know what to say because it is a complete disaster of an organization and they need to
02:10completely burn it all down get new ownership in there and start over yeah i mean that's not going
02:17to happen with the ownership but what i would say is they definitely have to start over in terms of
02:22like building a farm system and stop signing like your kenley jansen's to contracts like like i mean
02:29horrible free agent deals and that you just knew wouldn't work out at the beginning of the season then
02:33you can't even trade these players so just a mess with the angels speaking of a mess uh mets are
02:38in a
02:38similar situation they finally did fire carlos mendoza after he got the vote of confidence
02:43a couple of months ago there was an interview i saw with the new york post and their owner steve
02:49cohen now on the flip side uh i do believe in steve cohen i do believe tom that he wants
02:55to win
02:55and i and he owned it saying it's been a complete failure like he he's owning all this stuff but
03:01it
03:01doesn't make any mets fans uh feel better about this and i don't think it was mendoza's fault but i
03:08don't know also that mendoza is going to be so quick to get a new uh managing job so
03:14mets are i i think they're okay this is just going to be a lost season for them
03:18it did feel a little wonky what david stearns did in the offseason it's like let's get him okay we
03:24didn't get him all right so instead we'll sign him all right so instead of signing this one we'll
03:27sign this i mean tom it's just like anything in life when you're not taking the main option
03:32and you're taking the backup option you open up yourself to some possibilities of a disaster
03:37and the mets i understand why they went for it and changed everything up and the reason why is
03:43because they won nothing with pete alonzo and they won nothing with brandon immo nothing but if you're
03:48going to do that you got to make sure that you're going to look good on the back end and
03:51their backup
03:52options failed yeah that's really what it comes down to uh you know i believe with you that that cohen
03:59wants to win and he's willing to do the things that it takes to win and he's at least proven
04:02that
04:03to some extent he's willing to spend money but you also need to spend money in the proper way and
04:07you
04:08can't just be pivoting from one option of not getting kyle tucker and then going completely out
04:12of left field no pun intended and taking a different player uh boba shed and putting on a position that
04:17he's never playing sign jorge polanco to start at first base when he's never played a single game at
04:22first base in his mlb career so it's good to be aggressive but if you miss on being aggressive you
04:27can't
04:28just then take any other random shot to fill a hole on a roster that's what you can't be doing
04:32so
04:33i again i i think it is more of a lost season rather than a completely new direction for the
04:38team
04:39they need to make some changes it needs to start with cohen and sterns at the top making those changes
04:45changes but being unified and going all in the same direction
04:47you
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