Writers Who Could Be GMs

Rudy Martzke was public relations director for the NBA Buffalo Braves from 1972-74 and director of operations for the new Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association, according to his USA Today farewell column, http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/martzke/2005-04-14-martzke-goodbye_x.htm, and public relations director for the ABA's Floridians, according to this Orlando Sentinel story, http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-07-27/sports/0240120287_1_miami-floridians-basketball-association-miami-beach-convention

 

Mr. shockey is right. Surround yourself with scouts/advisors who really know the sport, make sane decisions, have a logical plan, stay within a budget and have the courage not to cave in to fan pressure and you can be a GM. Those things are difficult to do, but you can succeed without knowing a lot about the technical aspects of the sport. In baseball, for example, you'll be relying more on scouting reports than your own first-hand observations.

 

Hockey: Bob McKenzie. And before anybody jumps on me that he's on TSN, he was a print guy for many years.

 

NHL - Fluto Shinzawa

 

LOL...loved this response.

 

Having Marty Schottenheimer leaking him everything does not make Chris Mortensen a GM.

John Clayton is a major tool.

The correct answer is very, very, very few media people have even a 50 percent understanding of everything it takes to run an NFL franchise.

This isn't fantasy sports.

 

First guy I thought of too. He's not a writer but I would love to see Pierre McGuire have to prove he is as brilliant at running a team as he seems to think he would be.

 

Very, very, very few names have been posted here seriously in proportion to the number of media members associated with the league. I would suspect that a similar proportion of anyone in the sports business has a 50 percent understanding of what it takes to run an NFL franchise.

 

Why? I meant it as a serious response.

Ex-player, good insights into the game, pretty good writer.

(Unless you're saying that I'm stretching the definition by calling him a writer, but hell, he's in the New York Times. That makes him a writer in my book.)

 

John Buick... ???

 

In the "Franchise Players" draft recently on ESPN, Glanville picked Wilson Ramos. Ahead of Adrian Gonzalez and Miguel Cabrera and many, many other better players.

 

If McGuire were as brilliant as he thinks he is, he'd never have left coaching and scouting for broadcasting in the first place - because he'd still be working as a coach or a scout or somewhere else in hockey operations.

I pray to fucking God that it's true he'll be Ottawa's next GM. With him in the front office and Dave Cameron behind the bench (assuming that rumour is also true), the team may just go 0-82 next year like I want it to.