Do Ringer contracts contain a clause that force you to abandon any serious analysis in favour of hot takes?

My wife is a Pistons fan who is getting increasingly excited about them as they become regulars in the playoffs. This could get ugly around here.

LOL

But that only adds up if they are otherwise able to identify good baseball players to give the saved money to. So the con in which they’re engaged puts them in the enviable bureaucratic position of wide swaths of fans and media assuming high competence in the very thing that is at issue and at the core of the job.(*)

You can’t really understand modern GMing without understanding the behavior and the incentives of senior bureaucrat types, the primary of which is job and reputation maintenance. For example, the “tear down rebuild” is the perfect vehicle, if it can be gotten away with.

(*) I don’t mean to pick on David Stearns per se, but is there any real evidence that he is able to identify quality baseball players at above replacement level? Put aside the power points and the (lame ass) quarter-zips and the pompous jargon (“run prevention” lol) and the extremely low bar he had in Milwaukee and dig deep and you’ll probably find the answer is no. Certainly Milwaukee doesn’t miss him.