Kim Ng is one of the four finalists for the Seattle GM gig. Ng, (I think is 40 years old), went to the University of Chicago and played ball for four years there. It was softball though, not baseball. Ng is also a woman. She has been an assistant GM in LA for a while now. Before that she was an Assistant GM for the White Sox and also interned with the Yanks right out of college.

Ng is getting support as the best choice from the local media here -- the few that know/care about baseball anyway. She is supposed to be razor sharp and a great candidate for a GM job. If selected, she will have gotten the job because of that and not for any politically correct motive in my view.

I've read that Jerry DiPoto is the front runner. He was a big league relief pitcher for 8 years and is supposed to be very good at talent evaluation. Ng's strengths are supposed to be statistical analysis and negotiations.

It will be interesting to see where the Mariners go with their final decision. It looks like the new hire will be pretty new school. The Mariners have spent a lot of money on their big league team but much of it was not spent very well. Whoever the new GM is, he or she will have a tough job.

From everything I've ever read about Kim Ng, the team that has the cajones to hire her is going to get a top flight GM. I really hope (although I know it won't happen) that the Phillies would give her an interview.

I used to live across the street from Jerry DiPoto when we both lived in suburban Denver. Nice guy.

Why did she not get the Dodgers job when Colletti did?

I'd be shocked if she even got an interview in Philly. This is the organization that basically brushed off the Brett Myers wife punching incident when it was first reported.

pacino wrote:Why did she not get the Dodgers job when Colletti did?

I think it had to do with the whole DePodesta being a numbers guy and that's why the team sucked perception of the fanbase and Ng having a similar ideology.

kruker wrote:From everything I've ever read about Kim Ng, the team that has the cajones to hire her is going to get a top flight GM. I really hope (although I know it won't happen) that the Phillies would give her an interview.

Bwahahahaha.

Like I said, I know it isn't going to happen. I know it won't even be so much as discussed, but I can still have the same type of hope that a person buying a lottery ticket has.

kruker wrote:Like I said, I know it isn't going to happen. I know it won't even be so much as discussed, but I can still have the same type of hope that a person buying a lottery ticket has.

I think you have a better chance of winning powerball than the Phillies of interviewing Ng.

Dave Montgomery wouldn't even know how to say her name. "Hello Ms. Nig, welcome"

TenuredVulture wrote:

kruker wrote:Like I said, I know it isn't going to happen. I know it won't even be so much as discussed, but I can still have the same type of hope that a person buying a lottery ticket has.

I think you have a better chance of winning powerball than the Phillies of interviewing Ng.

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Woody wrote:Dave Montgomery wouldn't even know how to say her name. "Hello Ms. Nig, welcome"

How do you say her last name?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

Woody wrote:Dave Montgomery wouldn't even know how to say her name. "Hello Ms. Nig, welcome"

How do you say her last name?

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Houshphandzadeh wrote:

Woody wrote:Dave Montgomery wouldn't even know how to say her name. "Hello Ms. Nig, welcome"

How do you say her last name?

According to the Dodgers, it's pronounced "ANG":

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/co ... es/ng.html

I'd love to see the Mariners hire Ng. It wouold be very interesting to see what she would do with this mess up here. But it is nearly impossible to tell at this point if she'd be a good GM for the Ms, the Phils or anyone else.

I THINK she is a great candidate. But being a GM in the big leagues entails an awful lot of skills and no one does all of them well. The best GMs seem to have a very strong idea of what they want to accomplish; to have a very good understanding of what makes a winning team; to be able hire good people around them; and to have very strong -- what's the word? -- people skills I guess.

Soem guys or gals woould do very, very well in certain circumstances and not very well at all in others. It's a tough job. I think our experience with Gillick has shown just how a GM can have some very good strengths but some pretty big weaknesses as well. I'm sure Ng is the same as many other candidates in that she some big strengths and some weaknesses as well. If she can get into a position in which she can maximize her strengths and minimize her weaknesses, she will do great. I hope she does.

kruker wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

kruker wrote:Like I said, I know it isn't going to happen. I know it won't even be so much as discussed, but I can still have the same type of hope that a person buying a lottery ticket has.

I think you have a better chance of winning powerball than the Phillies of interviewing Ng.

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Jeffrey?

is ng an asian or an asian-american. most of the asian-americans that i knew and grew up with were loudmouthed jackasses that had a repugnant superiority complex. i don't know if they just drank turpentine and ate paintchips, but all but one of them were a few bananas short of a curious george.

this calls for a graemlin...