if being a cellar team and getting multiple high draft picks is such an obvious, easy thing to do then why didn’t it happen until shero got here? which brings me back to- the moves shero DIDN’T make are just as important as the ones he did make. instead of making moves to appease a fan base and keep our wheels spinning in neutral, he positioned us to draft high and often. what a concept.
(like an average GM i suppose) he pulled off one of the most lopsided trades in recent memory, which you downplay as a consequence of chiarelli’s incompetence as if chiarelli was only shopping hall to NJ. but, as you mentioned, even bringing in a league MVP for peanuts isn’t good enough for you, nor is making the playoffs, so i’m not sure what shero could have done to get your blessing. focus more on defense? yeah that’d be great except literally every position at every level of our organization was an absolute tire fire. sorry he couldn’t fix every aspect of this team in 4 years when he started off with lou’s geriatric team of f***around rejects.
you’re goddamn right i’m grading on a curve. look at our 2015 organization, full of seneys and pietilas and other assorted garbage, then look at the organization on shero’s last day. if you still don’t understand how miraculous that turnaround is, i doubt you ever will. that is why the context of Gramps McShitdiapers’ buffoonery is critical.
