Giants and MLB On Dangerous Ground

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