Sunday, May 4, 2025

Old boys club, why hockey and baseball lag behind football

 Having noticed who gets hired in the two sports of baseball and hockey I can conclude that baseball and hockey are quite backwards and guilty of the old boys network in terms of hiring practices.


You do not find many assistant coaches getting promoted to head coach or manager in baseball.

They tend to hire the tried and true candidates.

The New York Rangers fired Peter Laviolette recently after two years, one good regular season but ending short of the finals and missing the playoffs the next year. So who do they replace him with? Mike Sullivan of Pittsburgh who was fired recently as well. Yea Sullivan won two cups with Pittsburgh but that was close to a decade ago. But for the Rangers it will work.


It’s a major turnoff for me. Bring in new blood and fresh ideas.


Now you know why Bill Walsh is so revered in NFL circles. He was blocked from getting a job after Paul Brown passed on him to succeed him years ago. He hired minority assistants who would eventually become head coaches.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

New era in America , is it reflected in local government and journalism

 I am not sure if the people who work for the local television stations and state government are aware of this but in November we elected Donald Trump as president as well elected majorities in the US House and Senate. Yet the imbeciles at ABC, CBS etc skew their reporting in such a way as to think that Kamala won the presidency and I’ll of her people would be elected Secretary of State , Defense etc 

We need balance in journalism and an acknowledgment of reality and the imbeciles locally are unaware of this as well as their executives who run the stations.