Dodgers/Colletti talking extension

The Dodgers have opened talks with general manager Ned Colletti on a long-term contract extension, reports Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times. Dodgers chairman Mark Walter confirmed that the team had extended an offer to Colletti, though the GM and team president Stan Kasten didn't comment. Colletti is in the last guaranteed year of an extension signed after the 2009 season, though Colletti could have returned in 2013 under a mutual option.

Colletti was hired as the Dodgers' GM after the 2005 season and has led the team to no fewer than 80 wins in each of his six full seasons in Los Angeles, good for a 584-525 overall record. The Dodgers have made three playoff appearances (two NL West titles and a wild card) under Colletti, advancing as far as the NLCS in both 2008 and 2009.

Despite Colletti's contract status and a new ownership group taking over, there has been relatively little speculation that Walter, Kasten and Magic Johnson would hire a new general manager, probably due to the Dodgers' surprising success this year. Walter commented that he was impressed with how Colletti negotiated and completed the blockbuster trade with the Red Sox that saw the Dodgers take on roughly $260MM in salary in the form of Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Nick Punto.

 

NO! We must wait till this season is over before that shit is started. I really love what Ned did with Hanley but we have to wait to see how this A-Gon deal plays out more.

 

A monkey can be GM with this ownership, Kasten and Logan and we'd be ok.

 

What's the difference, it's not like we can unwind the deal and ship them back east if they don't perform better.....

 

If it turns out to be a mega shitty deal I don't want him back...

 

Then you're an even bigger moron than we all already figured you were. I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but I have no control over how Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Nick Punto or (eventually) Carl Crawford perform. If you like or dislike the trade, be a fucken man and say so now! It's real easy to applaud or second guess after the fact, but I guess I shouldn't expect a mindless dullard like you to understand a concept like that. You would have criticized me if I had done nothing, and now you're going to criticize me if it doesn't work out to your juvenile wet dream standards. So go back to playing The Show on xBox and then whacking off to the girl in your sig, using your own pathetic tears as lube. And please try to refrain from making any more asinine comments. Sorry, got to go and check on Nick Punto's biorhythms. Idiot.

Love, Ned

 

Fuck Ned. Need some new blood with fresh ideas. The guy has a long history of idiocy and flops. Send him to the dump where he belongs.

 

Anxiously waiting for BDK's response lol.

 

I am too...but the insults aside, that Ned post was really right on. Jucge it now, not after the fact...it's just not fair.

 

I'm liking this Ned poster more and more...

 

Sorry about the insults, I have a tendency to lash out when I get pissed. I can't help it. I just hate it when people make stupid/baseless statements.

 

Thanks best, that means a lot. I know we got off to a rough start and that was mostly my fault.

 

I'd like to know who the hell it is.

 

Fine I won't judge you on this trade, I'll judge your fat pole smoking Juan Uribe fucking cum loving ass on Andrew Jones, Jason "Neds Gay Lover" Schmidt, Juan Pierre, and Juan Uribe. What's up with you and over paying Juan's? O never mind I get it, you're not really paying them to play for the Dodgers, you had to pay them to keep fucking you and you wanted them to be close.

You can't control how they play, ok but you can control if your asshole gets raped by the Red Sox or not. You took on 260M (140M in horrid contracts) and yet you still managed to get rid of RDLR and Webster.

The Show is on PS3 only you 80's gay pornstache havin ass bitch.

Seriously this trade was only worth it if it helped get us to the WS this year and it doesn't even look like we will make it to the playoffs. We could have waited until the offseason and signed Josh Hamilton for lets just say for shits and giggles 8 years 200M. Bad deal right? O yea that is still less than 260M and we still would have a stud in RDLR and our 2nd best prospect in Webster.

You got fucked hardcore in this deal but we all loved it because Gonzo was coming the Dodgers but now that Gonzo isn't performing you're the one to blame. You get all the glory for HanRam, you get all the blame for Gonzo. It's just how it works but I wouldn't expect a dullard like you to understand. Go back to home, Juan's waiting for you.

 

You guys are right, we cannot judge trades by the outcomes.

That Pedro Martinez for Delino Deshields trade was really good for us because Martinez was way too small and was going to get hurt. Good Trade...

 

That trade actually disproves your point. How can you blame the Dodgers for not knowing what Pedro would be when the going rate for him was Delino DeShields? What they said is right. Getting Hanley, regardless of whether he hit .400 or .200, was a good move. The A-Gon trade, whether we win the World Series os miss the playoffs, was probably a bad one.

 

LAT with a great headline pix for this story - Ned looks insane:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/dodgers/la-sp-0907-dodgers-20120907,0,2371892.story

 

looks to me to be a guy feeling vindicated

 

Yeah, he's been totally forgiven for 22+ million of "dead money" on the payroll this season.

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