We're gonna need a bigger boat

"Oh say can you see / By the dawn's early light / What so proudly we hail / In the twilight's last gleaming? / Whose bright stripes and broad stars / In the perilous night / For the ramparts we watched / uh, da-da-da-da-da-daaaa. / And the rocket's red glare / Lots of bombs in the air / Gave proof to the night / That we still had our flag. / Oh say does that flag banner wave / Over a-a-all that's free / And the home of the land / And the land of the - FREE!" (Frank Drebin singing the national anthem in "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!")

Date: 9//9/2013

A memo from Glenn Polyn

 

I've been examining the Denver Dynasty franchise from top to bottom and come away feeling like I'm driving a 1971 Ford Pinto in a Nascar race with Kyle Busch in the car behind me.

 

Denver's major league roster is full of talent that, other than the outfielders and Maccioni, I wouldn't call "average." What con cerns me the most is the state of the pitching staff. Our best starter is Heckbert, who we plucked last week off some construction site in South Carolina, where he was working as a bricklayer. Chandler and Juarez are adequate relievers, but have both shown a tendency to implode under pressure.

 

It doesn't help matters that players, such as P Gilberto Montano, 1B Chet Harden and recently SS Gary Ratzlaff, have suffered injuries, further depleting our thin major league roster throughout the season. Our minor leagues are not where I would like them, as evident with our lack of prospects who have the ability to be promoted to our active roster when players go on the DL.

 

Our AAA team, the Vancouver Canadians, sit at 68-81. OFs Richard Knight, Scott Jones and Xing-Fu Loong appear to be the only players with any chance of having a future in the major leagues. The pitching staff should be taken out back behind the supplies shed and be put down.

 

Our AA and A teams, Ocean Park Mafia and Abbotsford Heat, are both over .500 and have a few talented prospects, but none seem to be true impact players who are required to be a title contender. P Aluizio Subgua and OF Roger Robinson are the players who I feel are the only prospects who I can see in the big leagues in the next 2 years.

 

I'm in the process of constructing a plan for the franchise, deciding on how best to turn a mediocre team that's in first place due to smoke and mirrors into a contender that can strike fear in its opponents.