Mariner GM watch: Kim Ng article
DMZ · July 7, 2008 at 6:35 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Lots of hand-wringing but also a good summary of Ng’s resume in this Yahoo Sports article.
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I heard that she will be on Softy’s show on KJR 950 Tuesday, I don’t remember what time, around 11:00 AM.
Ditto, I plan to listen to what she has to say, but of course the questions will probably be garbage and we’ll most likely have no sense of what she would actually do with the team as a result of her answers.
I do like the idea of someone who won’t run from the fact that media people seem to expect her to represent her entire gender, and whom DePo calls “smart, tough, and strong.” To know inside that being a woman doesn’t have to have any bearing on how the GM job is done and yet still gracefully handle the persistent questions about it says a lot about her character. I would be ready to crack skulls by now if I were her.
I can see Ng being feared by other general managers to the point it would effect her ability to do her job. There’s so much testosterone in this game that I’d bet some GM’s would rather not do deals with her (or only offer laughable ones) rather than expose themselves to a possible perception (or the reality…oh, the horror) that they got snookered by a girl in a trade.
Wow, I didn’t realize Kim Ng was a female. Glad I realized that before I make an idiot out of myself at the bar some night.
I think Softy said she’d be on at 12:20 PST.
I doubt very much it would affect the way they dealt with her in any significant way. She would have the goods so to speak, as in the reigns of a franchise and all of its power, players and prospects. You can’t shut an entire franchise out like that. This isn’t the 50’s.
Upper management in pro sports is something a woman will eventually break through and accomplish, and I imagine when she does do it, whoever she is (probably Ms. Ng), I would bet she will be at least competent if not incredible at her job.
I for one would actually be pretty excited about this hire. Though I strongly support the Chris Antonetti “The day the season is over” campaign, I have always had a feeling that Kim Ng would turn out to be an excellent GM.
In addition: if women can succeed in politics, the ultimate “Good Ol’ Boys” network, they can succeed in pro sports as well.
She sounds like a stud. I hope she gets some real consideration for the job. Bout time we get a computer/stats geek in the front office somewhere. Getting about sick of the good ol’ boys. About time the Mariners adapt to the 21st century. Results and projectability over vets and the ‘been through the wars’ garbage.
I personally like Ng because she offers a great combination of modern baseball roster/player management and fucking with the old guard’s heads. Anything that makes a bunch of racist, sexist jackasses’ heads explode is fine by me.
I think “NG WOOOOOO!!!” would look good on this site. If we end up hiring her, I can’t wait for her first USSM-approved signing or trade.
Talk about damning with faint praise. I know the whole point of the article is that baseball is still a boy’s club and all that, but could you imagine the president of any other business being called “open-minded” because he’s willing to consider hiring a woman?
Then she’ll have a long, long way with the rest of the Mariner organization…
I wish the M’s organization would have the balls to make a hire like this. /pun
If you want to see Kim Ng speak there is a short video interview on the net done in Feb. 2007 by alanschwarz.com
http://www.alanschwarz.com/display_video.html?ID=168
Its interesting to see her talk and hear her thoughts on things.
With Hillary Clinton coming as close to the Democratic nomination as she did I would find it hard to believe that Ms. Ng would receive as much hardship as some may think. Thats not to say she wont receive some undue hostility.
Ms. Ng has been around the league handling many jobs within the front office for more than one franchise. That does gain her some kind of credibility on the issue.
If a GM has the opportunity to make a move and doesnt because he has to deal with a woman do you not think that will get around? If this is truly an ol’ boys club then everyone knows everything thats happening and those GM’s that dont have a problem will react with hostility towards those that do. And if something like that were to leak to the media…. Good luck finding a new job!
With Seattle being as liberal as it is one would think that the fan base would not revolt at having a woman GM (assuming the fans have any influence on that type of decision…or any decision for that matter).
How Ms. Ng handled the Bill Singer incident shows she has backbone and will not put up with gender bias from anyone. Hillary Clinton shows strength through her actions and so has Ms. Ng.
Ms. Ng’s biggest baseball related problem will have to do with her philosophy and organizational leadership. Not her gender.
Getting a foot in the door will be hard but once there I forsee things being fairly normal because public perception is everything. Any ownership wouldnt want to be linked with someone that has an obvious gender bias…especially Seattle.
I’ve read more about her. Im stoked that she could be here. I would love to see how she handles the Mariners. To me from what I’ve read and have heard about her philosophy and leadership they are what this team needs. Its amazing how much she just would not only be a great GM but a person that could be a role model! An M’s GM being a role model seems weird does it not?????? Go get her now! We need this person to come in and start fresh with fresh ideas. Thats what this team needs and I am convinced she could do it.
[self-promotion]
I don’t know that anyone has ever read more into so little.
Yuppers…that’s a bigger barrier, I think. The organizations that would be most open to her are the ones with smart candidates already lined up.
Her gender, by itself, would not be a hinderance in Seattle, I think (if anything, it would be a minor plus, as would her ethnicity). It’s her philosophy and view on what makes a player talented that will probably wash her out of the M’s job.
I was listening to Softy’s show with the Ng interview earlier today. She sure made a lot of references to her stint as assistant GM for the Yankees. She mentioned the position she held with them at least 3 times in 10 minutes….like it was some sort of cachet, a paid-my-dues-with-the-big-boys kind of thing.
Yeah, yeah, we know it’s tough for a woman working as an executive in MLB, but you don’t have to pound your resume with the YANKEES over our heads.
Unfortunately Softy didn’t ask the question I wanted answered: How well does she think she could do her job as Mariners GM working for Chuck Armstrong? Would she tell him to stop telling her how to do her job, and go find his golf clubs and get out of her hair?
Hm. Won’t the first point be relevant to the second?
[It’s already been linked elsewhere, but here]