[Mick]

Andy Baggerly has an article on Crawfords departure.  Not favorable towards Zaidi.  Crawford told  Zaidi in Nov he wanted to come back, that he wanted to mentor the younger players, would play other positions, knew he’d be in backup role.

At the end of the day, after he got the Cardinals offer, he came back to see if there was an opportunity.  Zaidi offered a minor league contract and told him he could try and make the team. 

I understand why Crawford coming back could be a problem.  But just say sorry, we are committed to a different direction.  The minor league contact offer is a slap in the face.  Tone deaf as it comes.

He also spoke about the last couple years.  Mentioned they weren’t fun.  Injuries a big part. But he highlighted the lack of communication. “Not playing for three days without a word being said.” He enjoyed the players.  Bit not the environment. 

This on the heels of an SF Gate article by Alex Simon on the vets being happy Melvin is here.  One of the nuggets:  according to Webeck (SJ Merc beat writer, Kapler told him he prefers communicating by text, even when he’s in the same room….

Zaidi, fairly or not, has built a reputation of treating players like it’s an APBA game.  And it’s alienating a portion of the fan base.  

They have some work to do.

Drove 45 minutes to and from a breakfast this morning and the KNBR guys were railing on Farhan, seemingly deservedly so. Definitely a slap in the face to one of the better Giants of the last decade or so.

One of the least attractive traits of certain managers is their failure or inability -- or lack of desire -- to recognize prior greats and great efforts of ultimate team players. When I worked at Andersen, they had a new head of the office and practice who had arrived from a distant area. Shortly after his arrival, he gathered the team together for a kickoff meeting, and talked at length about his desired future, the steps he was talking, near-term future moves and the like. At no point did he recognize or acknowledge his predecessor, also in the room, for the years of sacrifice and successes that this individual had made at the behest of the firm. This was a man who left a substantial practice to create a team virtually from scratch and was successful in doing so, and was about to return to rebuild what had been a successful practice in a different city. 

But the new guy didn't say a word about him. Not one word. Fairly junior though I was, I asked the new leader after the meeting why he didn't say a word about the outgoing practice/office leader, and his response was memorable: "I celebrate when people arrive, not when they depart."

Cold and callous. It wasn't the last time I had that experience with him.

[Mick]

Andy Baggerly has an article on Crawfords departure.  Not favorable towards Zaidi.  Crawford told  Zaidi in Nov he wanted to come back, that he wanted to mentor the younger players, would play other positions, knew he’d be in backup role.

At the end of the day, after he got the Cardinals offer, he came back to see if there was an opportunity.  Zaidi offered a minor league contract and told him he could try and make the team. 

I understand why Crawford coming back could be a problem.  But just say sorry, we are committed to a different direction.  The minor league contact offer is a slap in the face.  Tone deaf as it comes.

He also spoke about the last couple years.  Mentioned they weren’t fun.  Injuries a big part. But he highlighted the lack of communication. “Not playing for three days without a word being said.” He enjoyed the players.  Bit not the environment. 

This on the heels of an SF Gate article by Alex Simon on the vets being happy Melvin is here.  One of the nuggets:  according to Webeck (SJ Merc beat writer, Kapler told him he prefers communicating by text, even when he’s in the same room….

Zaidi, fairly or not, has built a reputation of treating players like it’s an APBA game.  And it’s alienating a portion of the fan base.  

They have some work to do.

Drove 45 minutes to and from a breakfast this morning and the KNBR guys were railing on Farhan, seemingly deservedly so. Definitely a slap in the face to one of the better Giants of the last decade or so.

One of the least attractive traits of certain managers is their failure or inability -- or lack of desire -- to recognize prior greats and great efforts of ultimate team players. When I worked at Andersen, they had a new head of the office and practice who had arrived from a distant area. Shortly after his arrival, he gathered the team together for a kickoff meeting, and talked at length about his desired future, the steps he was talking, near-term future moves and the like. At no point did he recognize or acknowledge his predecessor, also in the room, for the years of sacrifice and successes that this individual had made at the behest of the firm. This was a man who left a substantial practice to create a team virtually from scratch and was successful in doing so, and was about to return to rebuild what had been a successful practice in a different city. 

But the new guy didn't say a word about him. Not one word. Fairly junior though I was, I asked the new leader after the meeting why he didn't say a word about the outgoing practice/office leader, and his response was memorable: "I celebrate when people arrive, not when they depart."

Cold and callous. It wasn't the last time I had that experience with him.