Let’s Go Tribe puts together a complete critique of the Indians from the front office to the clubhouse.
Winston Churchill said it best: “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Can we discuss this like adults? Should we even try? Hard to say. It is so much simpler just to say, fire the manager. The Indians have failed; we know that much. We have a pretty clear idea how they’ve failed, but we’re pretty fuzzy on why. There are web forums now boiling over with the usual reasons and theories, the sorts of things that get dismissed here out of hand. For most of those theories, it’s time to redouble our dismissiveness — the problem surely isn’t that we’ve failed to give Barfield more of an opportunity. For others, it may be time to reconsider.
I won’t fault Shapiro’s front office for having a plan. (How stupid is that? Would we rather they didn’t have a plan?) I would like to pose some theories as to why the Shapiro program has failed much more than it has succeeded up to this point. Each theory deserves a lot more thought and research than a new dad is likely to cough up after midnight — that would be none — but that will come later. For now, let’s just try out some new ideas — and old ones.
His basic theory boils down to too much character, not enough talent.
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