Zduriencik's first action, counter-poll edition

by busplunger on Oct 24, 2008 2:22 PM PDT

The Seattle Times sports front page is running a "Today's Question" poll that asks what Zduriencik's first decision should be as general manager.

The four decisions allowed are a bit cringe-worthy:

Get rid of Erik Bedard
Sign Ken Griffey Jr.
Trade Ichiro
Re-sign Raul Ibanez

So, in case none of those options look particularly good to you, savvy Lookout Landing fan, I offer you the chance to vote in a counter-poll. Jam the Vote!

Poll

What should new Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik actually do first?

Keep Erik Bedard

25 votes

Do not even think about signing Ken Griffey Jr.

39 votes

Keep Ichiro

51 votes

Start planning what to do with the compensation picks gained from letting Raul Ibanez fumble about in the greener pastures of somebody else's outfield

157 votes

272 votes | Poll has closed

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It's amazing how every single choice they offer would be a disastrously stupid, confidence-shattering move.

It takes MSM sports coverage to get something like this so thoroughly wri9ong.

J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.

by esoteric on Oct 24, 2008 2:25 PM PDT reply actions

Way to make the two most valuable players on the poll feel like they are an important asset to this team.

Whoever was stupid enough to come up with a poll like this needs to be fired.

by Wilder. on Oct 24, 2008 2:32 PM PDT reply actions

That article-thing is always dumb.

Indie.

by .Taylor on Oct 24, 2008 2:49 PM PDT reply actions

I don't see trade Adrian Beltre as an option.

by Mariner John on Oct 24, 2008 2:54 PM PDT reply actions

Extend Bedard

I’m bullish on Bedard. There’s a decent chance, it seems to me, that removal of the cyst will return Bedard to form and he’ll be a very good pitcher next year. I’m even tempted to suggest the M’s try to lure him into a one or two year extension at a moderate free-agent price ($8 million?). It’s a high-risk high-reward move, but not insane if you believe that what we’ve seen of Bedard has been entirely due to this cyst. For Bedard it’s insurance against his inability to return to form, at the risk of a big FA payoff in 2010.

Assuming we don’t extend him, there is still a good chance he’ll pitch well enough we can dump him at the deadline for some talent, or offer arbitration and get some good talent in the 2010 draft.

by short on Oct 24, 2008 3:03 PM PDT reply actions

Sign Junior!

Hell, play him in center for all I care. If they’re really going to rebuild, I’d love one more year of watching Junior patrol center field. Well the parts within fifteen feet of where he starts from…

by seattlebruin on Oct 24, 2008 3:28 PM PDT reply actions

The only reason I don't like that....

is that I have this vision of the M’s accidently competing next year (sort of like this seasons Twins). In that vision Griffey isn’t in center field.

by Jason X U S N on Oct 24, 2008 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions

We already accidentally competed last year.

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by JY on Oct 24, 2008 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I don't want Griffey back anymore

I just get a bit sad watching him play and prefer not to see him make a fool of himself in the Mariners uniform he used to wear so well. He may be 38, but his body is more like 58.

by discovolante on Oct 24, 2008 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions

That is undoubtedly the stupidest poll I have ever seen

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by Corco on Oct 24, 2008 5:33 PM PDT reply actions

Technically

By not trading Either Bedard or Ichiro yet, hasn’t Z technically done both?

At what point can we officially say he has kept them? When ’09 starts?

by mariners124m on Oct 24, 2008 11:31 PM PDT reply actions

If it is when '09 starts

Then unless we have a completly boring offseason, this wouldn’t be his first move. In fact, if we only count Z as having kept Ichiro/Bedard when opening day rolls around, then technically, anybody who voted for either of those options is advocating that we make absolutely zero offseason transactions. Which is probably the worst thing possible

by mariners124m on Oct 24, 2008 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Three of those aren't actions

According to this piece of fluff, Zduriencik’s managerial pool is apparently pretty wide.

One of the names mentioned caught my eye: Ned Yost. Apparently, Zduriencik’s not too down on the guy despite his questionable late season exit. Brewers fans have mentioned Yost’s nonsensically bad managerial decisions, so I wonder if one should be concerned he’s at all in the running.

by Gomez on Oct 25, 2008 9:22 AM PDT reply actions