We’re talking the most elite of sports enterprises in the world. It’s 2008 and despite the advancement of technology and sports counseling…the obvious cannot be seen.
Organizations have little clue of what it takes to provide an environment where things grow, where everything increases.
I’m not simply picking on the Giants; my intent is far greater than that, I’m picking on a system in American sports where the influence on our children and nation at large is flying by the seat of its pants.
Sooner or later professional teams, or should I say organizations, will come to know that all teams do have the player personnel and coaching staff necessary to win a World Series. Every last one of them! And they are clueless as to why that is.
Sure, only one team can walk away with the trophy each season, but what there is to know will always be understood by some more clearly than others. Some will sustain their knowledge when the situations during the season appear more challenging.
Most readers will scoff at the “illogical” notion that any team can win. That, of course, is the dominant thinking, and that is also why so many teams were but a handful of games from making the playoffs in 2007.
Rather than give you the scientific knowledge underpinning the why, what I am going to reveal here is simply an illustration of the universal lack of awareness by MLB and its 29 franchises. Woe is that unconscious flaw.
Quite early on this season, I spoke of one organization that was destined to have perhaps the most miserable season in major league history.
As I write these words, this team has secured the worst win-loss record of 2008 thus far. Unless there is a sufficient infusion of joy necessary to “release” the negative vibrations spread throughout the Giants world by the close minded corporate executives who manage as though they know what works, this outcome will likely be seen.
Will this notorious record still be made?
So what the heck is he talking about?
Among many other things to which I could speak, I shall speak of one.
Here is a fan base whose love for a certain player was quite enduring. Fans who knew this player were smart enough to know the distortion the media was making about him. The organization revealed their true self fear as the season ended.
Fans backed their team despite the organization's willingness to tear them apart.
In a relationship, there is never one side being good and the other bad. Eventually both parties will grow into a loving healthy relationship, or they both will do each other in. Barry Bonds doesn’t know yet how lucky he is to have been released by an organization, unwittingly I might add, run by closed minded individuals.
When Peter Magowan in March had all structural evidence of Barry Bonds removed from sight in AT&T Stadium, he crushed the heart and soul of the fan ship. It was a slap across the face of every fan both young and old. Old fans will be replaced by the new. The problem is the infection will continue melt the joy away from this organization, and no team can maintain a loyal fan base of a team in such a predicament.
These loyal fans who have given so much over the years find the loyalty of the ownership broken. It’s not Barry, it’s about how an owner discarded their fans; is difficult to imagine. He removed it from the fans, all those memories of joy and excitement simply cast aside like it doesn’t matter to them, history removed. The “I was there….“, just no longer matters. Unawareness of the emotional impact and cluelessness to what role it plays on the outcome in whatever endeavor you are considering is too bad.
The hatefulness of such a move may never be overcome for a decade or more.
My intent isn’t to give you solutions especially without having been asked, because self generated solutions coming from an understanding of what works are far more powerful and effective.
For now the fan can wish Barry well. Go to his site and tell him. Barrybonds.com
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4 months ago
The reason that the Giants took out everything Barry Bonds related was much more than an infusion of the new. First off, although he made the Giants an exciting team to watch, he also brought out the worst in the franchise, making it the team of a prima donna, dominated by someone with extreme superstar needs that the Giants were more than happy to roll over for. That is the leaf that they are trying to turn over. The real, genuine Giants fans understand that the purging of Bonds HAD to be done. Especially with the concept that he could have played somewhere else, there's no way you could have someone come in and, as a visiting player, have himself plastered all over a park. Bonds' time as a Giant is over, and those real Giants fans will remember it for what it was, without need of huge Bonds posters UNTIL he is inducted into the Hall of Fame and has his number retired.
4 months ago
And he get the blame. Do you really think the organization did not completely condone everything?
4 months ago
But that's what I'm saying. He is the source of the problem, so by 1) him leaving, 2) Magowan leaving, and 3) starting fresh, the organization is sacking up and taking responsibility. If you think that Magowan WANTS to leave now, you're wrong. He'd much rather stay with the organization, but its the fact that he DID condone everything that convinced him that it would be in the team's best interest if he left, taking with him the whole situation that he brought about.
4 months ago
Why is it perfectly acceptable for Miguel Tejada to be playing on a major league team right now? They say he took steroids, lied to a jury and lied about his age. Imagine it was Tejada that broke Arron's record instead of Bonds. Tejada would not be signed and Bonds would have a team.
4 months ago
My best team of MLB is The San Francisco Giants . This why I always fallow their games especially whenever I have some time. I’m always trying not o miss any of their game and hear about the team’s news. But The San Francisco Giants tickets get more pricy especially when there are some hot games. But, if we’re really good fans we should try not to be mean when we’re talking about a favourite teams. It’s not only the Giants tickets that got pricy, but there are other major teams too, so the team needs our support and we should provide as much as we can.
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