Sather seems to be doing fine and he's got more than a few "Richards" level catastrophies.
Winning fixes a lot and right now we'd probably be talking about how much of a visionary he was for saying his goal was to make the playoffs all along as opposed to calling him a loud mouth who should just shut up.
The reality is that during his tenure we went from an old, expensive, non-competitive team with bare prospect cupboards ready to fall off a cliff to a team on the upswing with one of the best prospect bases in the league. How long did it take? 5, 6, 7 years? More like 3 years and faster than anyone would have predicted and most have ever accomplished.
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