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Baseball Musings
November 15, 2005
Colletti Drives South

Ned Colletti is the new Dodgers GM.

Dodgers spokeswoman Camille Johnston confirmed the hiring of Colletti, who has served under Giants general manager Brian Sabean for the past nine years.

The 50-year-old Colletti is considered a good negotiator and a good communicator, attributes owner Frank McCourt said he wanted in a GM after he fired DePodesta on Oct. 29.

At least they didn't call him a good handler of pitchers. :-)

Jon Weisman is not inspired, but will give the new GM a chance.

More background here from Steve Henson of the Los Angeles Times at NY Newsday.

He moved to the Giants in 1995 and became assistant GM in 1997, the year the team began a run of successful seasons that ended with last season's disappointing third-place finish.

"There were all sorts of messes in San Francisco, and not all of them became public," said an agent who has had several clients play for the Giants. "Ned dealt with all of them."

Sounds like the Harvey Keitel character in Pulp Fiction, The Wolf.

The Wolf: You're... Jimmie, right? This is your house?

Jimmie: Sure is.

The Wolf: I'm Winston Wolf. I solve problems.

Jimmie: Good, we got one.

The Wolf: So I heard. May I come in?

Jimmie: Uh, yeah, please do.

He has quite a mess to clean up in Los Angeles.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:25 PM | Management | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Well, he will find out that Marcellus ain't got no friends in the Valley.

Posted by: Chris Marcil at November 16, 2005 12:25 AM

Its nice to see that they decided to go with dodger tradition... oh wait.

Posted by: ben at November 16, 2005 08:14 AM

well it's good to see that they hired some old GUY.

because their only other choice was a GIRL - and we can't have THAT - it's against dodger tradition and she might could cry if she don't get her way or rush out to buy new shoes in the middle of a deal or something.

oh yeah. and we know that guys under 50 are all incompetent and might even have been to college or used a computer. and going to college, especially harvard or yale or some bad place like that, well, that's a real sign that the guy don't have what it takes to do much of anything besides use computers, right

oh, you went there david??? ooopsie

Posted by: lisa gray at November 16, 2005 09:32 AM

So your message to Dodgers fans is, "don't start sucking each other's dicks quite yet"?

Posted by: Steve at November 16, 2005 10:28 AM
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