LOS ANGELES DODGERS--Named Corey Busch team consultant.
Griffey soon retired — he is now a team consultant — and Seattle lurched to 101 losses.
He considers his ascent a gradual one, with Jim Bedard, the goalie coach, and Osgood, a team consultant, serving as mentors.
Walsh will become a team consultant on July 1 and hand the front-office reins to Glen Grunwald, the team's senior vice president of basketball operations.
Round and round spins the carousel of Garden dysfunction, while Walsh steps off to serve for a year as the proverbial team consultant.
"He's perfect for our team," said Doug Moe, the coach of the Nuggets during their 1980s run-and-shoot heyday and now a team consultant.
"It would have been easy to play a shot to try and stop that, but [Clarke] hung in there," Shane Warne, acting as a team consultant for Australia, said.
Then, too, there is the omnipresence of Bill Walsh, the franchise's most famous coach who now acts as a team consultant and resident godfather of 49er quality control.
INSIDE PITCH Chris Correnti, Pedro Martínez's personal trainer and a former assistant trainer for the Boston Red Sox, was hired by the Mets as a team consultant.
Though he may remain as a team consultant, a four-decade relationship between a player and a club will most likely come to an end.
Walsh, who replaced Thomas as the Knicks' president in 2008 — then stepped down last spring to become a team consultant — was granted permission Friday morning to seek work with another franchise.
