Is Josh Jacobs Trying to get a FO Job or What?
Calling all #STLCards front office skeptics – this one is for you.
Please reply to this tweet, with sourced quotes, of times when the Cards’ front office said they would do something, and didn’t.
I see that narrative a lot, so I’d like to break down those instances for a story
— Josh Jacobs (@joshjacoMLB) October 8, 2023
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It’s asinine to me how complacent people are with this team and particularly the front office. They’ve been steadily declining since 2016.
I normally don’t do this, but I’ve been seeing Josh Jacobs who is tied to Redbird Rants and a Cardinals podcast a lot recently. I swear to god most of his tweets is going to bat for the front office, and then Derrick Goold chipping in to defend the FO at times too. Then about any tweet or example giving him a quote he wants, then he goes to defend FO and moves the goal posts. It’s bad enough we have to do his job now for an article that I can see him abandon since it will make him look wrong.
I don’t expect, or want the St. Louis Media/Cardinals reporters to become like NYC and always be mad. But my god it’s getting pathetic at this point. About any fan who isn’t aiming to get onto the Cardinals payroll as a yes-man can realize the FO has been bad in recent years. Payroll is getting too low for a top-10 franchise in regards to attendance and TV ratings. Broken promises with pitching. Terrible quotes like how we have 6-starting pitchers. Double standards with firing Matheny/Shildt while giving their yes-man analytics manager Oli a pass for the worst season in decades. Analytics is clearly flawed and worthless at times that the FO keeps shoving down our throats. Some hitters struggling start to get better when they get out of the Cards systems. Same with some pitchers. Bad free agency signings overall like Brett Cecil.
I can go on and on, but when the mouthpieces for fans from the St. Louis media do what they can to be a bunch of yes-man for the FO is getting sad. I feel like only Bernie Miklasz holds them accountable.
What a bootlicker, lol.
I just told him to “go read Miklasz,” whether it’s sourced quotes or not. I mean, FanSided. What more is there to say?
Ha ha ha. I just read those tweets. The bootlicking, my God.
His xGwakGwak numbers are off the charts!
Aren’t we all?
What usually happens is they come out big, like the whole “dry powder” bit. They’re going to go get something, but whoa, things got expensive when other teams are willing to outspend the Cardinals’ “internal model.” So they sign some guys out of the discount bin that “check the boxes” and so they fulfilled their promise, but at best raised the team’s floor but not their ceiling and muddled the future by blocking prospects with comparable ceilings.
The Cardinals’ biggest problem for a decade now is that they spend money on what they already have. They’re super good at producing average MLB talent, but keep spending money on it too. You should be spending on what you don’t have!
This team is still a bat short and has been for years. And now their rotation is lost. Year after year of maintaining the status quo in the offseason is catching up to them. There’s no short cuts here. I don’t expect 2024 to be much better than this one. The owner doesn’t have the stomach to do what is required for a worst to World Series. If they’re in the postseason convo, I’ll be shocked.
Has the front office ever said anything clearly enough to be assessed after the fact? They almost always present everything in a vague, wishy-washy manner so that it can never be later determined to be true or false…
But he’s not wrong.