bern has been busy past few months and still not fully clear for ‘nother coupla wks min. Happily can do hockey hookey for a bit...
When last here in prior RoBu thread, I lamented how Rs don’t listen to bern, and we suffer. Some then said I have no such track record. I am not going to go on an extensive rant about this. However, I am entitled as each of us is defend any such adverse statement. Since I have a brief moment, I will just say they are wrong, and history confirms this.
I said generally, acquire best possible younger talent, provide mins, develop, minimize reliance on vets who, by virtue of seniority, typically cost more = more difficult cap mgmt. I believe this has been proven to be preferable to the win now stupidity of not only relying vice versa on vets over youth, but also over the iodiocy of dealing draft picks for rentals, particularly those who, because of cap, we cannot extend. We should consider ourselves fortunate that b’c we missed the POs this yr, we did not have to fork over our first as part of the Kane overpayment.
I have also had specific positions on particular players or trades that by and large are arguably proven more correct than not over the long run. Time will not permit detailing that now, but perhaps later a snapshot or 2 can verify.
This is not to say I don’t want any disagreement from anybody. Not only does that come with the territory, everyone should, like bern, champion a competition of ideas.
And I realize I have my advocates as well as my detractrors here. Peace to you all, but going forward it would be, I propose to the board, of benefit to us all to be unreserved in overall opinion, but more reserved on criticism when not substantiated by merit.
Now, on to current status and things we have to consider about how best improve our beloved Rangers...
