In honor of Randy Smith's possibly becoming the new gm in Houston, I am curious as to the consensus of who is the worst active GM in sports. Millen and Smith share many of the same traits: horrible drafting, inability to learn from past mistakes or even acknowledge the most obvious of failures, giving outrageous contracts to mediocre talent, making stupid trades for the sake of making trades, inability to generate much interest in the team despite new stadiums, quirky personalities (bow ties vs. motorcycles), inability to develop any type of coherent strategy and follow through on that strategy. In general, it stymies the imagination that either of these were hired in the first place, let alone retained for multiple years. Which is worse, drafting wide receivers every year (while still signing a number of free agent wrs or drafting a relief pitcher with the no. 1 overall pick? Preaching a tough guy attitude prior to hiring Marty Morhinwig and drafting joey harrington and charles rogers in consecutive years or building a pitcher's park prior to trading for juan gonzales? Has there ever been a pair of gms to get less talent despite having top 10 picks every year?
Personally, I would have to take Millen as worse. In addition to his total incompentency for running a football team, the guy has no self control and just seems to be a moron. When you have a confrontation with johnny morton and you like the idiot, it just proves a certain level of idiocy and immaturity that cannot be rationalized away.
Anyways, I hope that dombrowski is talking to smith about a deal to bolster our bullpen. Do the mud hens have a speedy center fielder that couldn't hit high school pitching?
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