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ESPN: Dodgers assistant GM Ng considered an option for ‘gender blind’ Mariners

Highly regarded Los Angeles Dodgers assistant GM Kim Ng is considered an option.

The 39-year-old Ng has had her job for seven seasons and was a top adviser to New York Yankees’ GM Brian Cashman before that. She was believed to be the final candidate beaten out by Ned Colletti when Los Angeles selected a new GM in 2005, and the Dodgers say she is the first woman to ever interview for a GM job.

In 137 years of baseball history, we have never had a female general manager. But that seems to be the way the wind is blowing these days. After all, we have female singers, female motorists…

AlouGoodbye Posted: September 27, 2008 at 06:08 AM | 33 comment(s)
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1. BaseballDIY Posted: September 27, 2008 at 08:45 AM (#2958010)

Let's go over this one more time, just to make sure I understand the situation. [clears throat] She's a girl.

2. Swedish Chef Posted: September 27, 2008 at 09:10 AM (#2958023)

They're blind in most other ways, so why not be gender blind too?

3. NJ in DC loathes his classmates and the law Posted: September 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM (#2958056)

You know, I understand that...uh...they had to bring a female in...change your diapers, wipe the dribble away from your bubbling lips, rub vaseline all over your heiney and tell you that it's different and special from everyone else's...does she tuck you in Marlins? Give you a little kiss on your forehead, tell you that everything's gonna be ok?

4. Biscuit_pants Posted: September 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM (#2958059)

Let's go over this one more time, just to make sure I understand the situation. [clears throat] She's a girl.

gosh darn it, I just don't understand the situation.

5. Yankee_Redneck Posted: September 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM (#2958071)

She should have interview for the Republican vice-presidential job instead. When you can't adequately fend off the probing inquiries of Katie Couric you're in deep doodily-doo. Kim Ng had to defend herself against Mr. Steinbrenner, which should trump any moose-hunting bona-fides.

6. Jeff K. Posted: September 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM (#2958073)

Q: Why can't Helen Keller drive?

A: Because she's a woman.

7. bunyon Posted: September 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM (#2958075)

Gender blind? That explains all the players that throw and hit like girls.

8. dcba Posted: September 27, 2008 at 10:47 AM (#2958081)

Next thing you know, there'll be women making out with women in the stands and they'll have to shut the whole thing down.

9. Dock Ellis on Acid Posted: September 27, 2008 at 11:11 AM (#2958098)

Women should stay in the dugout where they belong.

10. Neil Kinnock...Lord Palmerston! (Orinoco) Posted: September 27, 2008 at 11:13 AM (#2958101)

When you can't adequately fend off the probing inquiries of Katie Couric you're in deep doodily-doo. Kim Ng had to defend herself against Mr. Steinbrenner, which should trump any moose-hunting bona-fides.

Interesting. Even the liberal partisans are admitting now that the media are open adversaries of the Republican ticket now.

11. Chris Needham Posted: September 27, 2008 at 11:17 AM (#2958105)

This thread is useless without pictures!!!

12. Robert in Redondo Posted: September 27, 2008 at 11:23 AM (#2958111)

Interesting. Even the liberal partisans are admitting now that the media are open adversaries of the Republican ticket now.

Indeed. How dare they ask her tough questions! She's obviously not that bright, it's just cruel. It's not like they would give here any authority to do anything if they did win. What's with all the questions?

13. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: September 27, 2008 at 11:34 AM (#2958114)

No Jap company is hiring a Taiwanese girl to be their executive.

14. Neil Kinnock...Lord Palmerston! (Orinoco) Posted: September 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM (#2958123)

She's obviously not that bright

Yep, much dumber compared to Senator Kinnock's much higher IQ.

15. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: September 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM (#2958141)

Ng has been a quality assistant for a while now, and if Seattle picks her, I bet she'll do just fine.

16. Mike Emeigh Posted: September 27, 2008 at 12:32 PM (#2958155)

This thread is useless without pictures!!!

Here you go.

-- MWE

17. Padraic Posted: September 27, 2008 at 12:47 PM (#2958171)

Women should stay in the dugout where they belong.

Keith Hernandez disagrees.

18. Ryan Jones Posted: September 27, 2008 at 01:13 PM (#2958194)

Ng has been a quality assistant for a while now, and if Seattle picks her, I bet she'll do just fine.

While I have no doubts as to her abilities to succeed as a GM, I do doubt her ability to succeed in Seattle, only because I doubt anyone's ability to succeed in Seattle under the current restrictions (interfering ownership, bad contracts, obsession with character over talent). With that being said, I would hope that, if she's available whenever JP is tossed, Toronto would take a serious look at hiring her.

19. Ivan Grushenko of HK in Tokyo Posted: September 27, 2008 at 01:22 PM (#2958207)

No Jap company is hiring a Taiwanese girl to be their executive.

Is Ng Taiwanese? I thought she was from Ohio.

20. AlouGoodbye Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:08 PM (#2958253)

Ng was born in New Jersey. Both her parents are originally of Chinese descent, although neither was born there. I have always seen her referred to as a Chinese-American or Asian-American. I'm not saying she isn't Taiwanese, but I've never heard that she is.

21. Jeff K. Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:11 PM (#2958263)

20 posts, including one by me, and no mention of her sister Anna?

22. Lassus Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:18 PM (#2958267)

20 posts, including one by me, and no mention of her sister Anna?

Because her other sister Ana has a more majestic presence.

23. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:19 PM (#2958269)

My guess is that the Mariners want to act like they are wide open in their thinking, but that they will have nagging worries about her sex and possibly, given their Japanese owner's influence, her ethnicity, so they won't want to go for her.

The biggest news from the meeting with the media that fueled this ESPN story was that Chuck Armstrong and Howard Lincoln will stay on as the two top people in the org, despite rumors of change in the ownership (denied by the potential new controlling owner) and a groundswell of public opinion calling for their heads. Link.

24. robinred Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:22 PM (#2958271)

Wonder what Zumsteg thinks.

25. The Ghost of Sox Fans Past Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:32 PM (#2958284)

Wonder what Zumsteg thinks.

Here.

26. robinred Posted: September 27, 2008 at 02:58 PM (#2958333)

Thanks, Ghost, but I was joking. Zumsteg had a "Kim Ng for GM" thing going a few years ago.

27. Suff Posted: September 27, 2008 at 03:50 PM (#2958420)

How do you pronounce that last name? I've seen it in print many times, but I've never known someone personally with that name.

28. scotto Posted: September 27, 2008 at 04:17 PM (#2958486)

The pronunciation is there in the article that Mike Emeigh linked.

29. Jeff K. Posted: September 27, 2008 at 04:45 PM (#2958536)

How do you pronounce that last name? I've seen it in print many times, but I've never known someone personally with that name.

Ang. Though that's not always the pronunciation, it is most of the time.

30. Jeff K. Posted: September 27, 2008 at 04:49 PM (#2958556)

Because her other sister Ana has a more majestic presence.

Blarg, how did I mess that up?

31. Jeff K. Posted: September 27, 2008 at 04:50 PM (#2958559)

Le sigh. Insert witty comment here.

32. ValueArb Posted: September 28, 2008 at 12:36 AM (#2959067)

Leave it to a progressive organisation like Seattles to be first to break this barrier.

33. Ivan Grushenko of HK in Tokyo Posted: September 28, 2008 at 12:42 AM (#2959068)

Ang.

Does she really pronounce it that way? Mmmm.

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