Pirates' GM Neal Huntington: Please Mock Me

Fun stuff from Neal Huntington:

We have short-, medium- and long-term goals. Short and medium, we're beginning to be able to evaluate those. Short-term, we've accomplished a tremendous amount. It's below the surface. It's completely revising how we scout, how we evaluate, how we sign and develop players. That's gone very, very well. Short-term, really, the only thing that we feel we've missed on is wins and losses at the major-league level. We didn't expect this team to be staring at 90 or 100 losses again. I can also tell you we didn't expect to win 100 games. We set the playoffs as a goal, not as a prediction. Have we lost more games than we expected? Yeah, we have. How do we overcome that? We need to play good, sound, fundamental baseball...

It goes on from there. Now, which single sentence from there do you think the media is going to seize upon? I'm betting on this one:

Short-term, really, the only thing that we feel we've missed on is wins and losses at the major-league level.

This one reminds me of something inept former Devil Rays GM Chuck Lamar said once:

"The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major-league level." 

That quote was a widely ridiculed last gasp of a man who was soon to be fired. And now Huntington has gone and said something almost identical. Huntington isn't an incompetent GM, but he sure talks like one sometimes.