skones wrote:After digesting.
As much as it sucks that he went to a rival, CC DID make a career move for himself. He got to stay close to home, doesn't have to uproot his life entirely, and gets that big budget that you need to win in this league. Yeah it got messy, but it's hard for me to really have some deep hatred for the guy when he did what he did in 9 seasons with the deck stacked against him in a small market.
Messy sure, but I find it disingenuous to sit here and act like Counsell should have done the fan base a favor in not doing what's best for him personally. Take the team names out of the equation and put it in a vacuum. Who here would honestly just eschew the job with more resources and higher pay? Like it or not, it's a business decision for him, and it's not a bad one.
For any other manager I'd agree. Counsell wasn't any other manager though. As fans we root for the team name on the front of the jersey, and Counsell claimed to be one of us. He didn't talk about the Brewers as just another place to be, he talked about how the Brewers were who he was. I get that it's a business, but to ditch the team you reportedly grew up rooting for and a team that you claimed to be part of your fabric, for their biggest rival. It just doesn't feel right even if it made the most business sense.
Coach Drew: "Milwaukee has always been a team that I have been intrigued by. When we played them, they were a tough team for us to play. Although we did beat them all four times"