Stranger In A Strange Land

So, here’s a funny thing. I apparently cheer for a team with management that knows what it’s doing and excellent coaching. To those with prior experience* with those things, I must ask: what’s it like?

*Oddly, the only championship team I’ll ever root for even if the Seahawks are giving me glimmers of hope that will surely end horribly, is only a half-exception: it was the result of an insanely good run of personnel judgments, but the coaching was pretty second-rate, as evidenced by the fact that a team with several Hall of Famers in their prime and a good supporting cast got out of the second round once. The Mariners at the turn of the century briefly qualify, I guess, but Gillick and Lincoln let that team die on the vine after getting obliterated by the Yankees twice. And of course the Duquette/Alou Expos but we shall never speak of that again and go to hell Bud Selig.