Who was the best LEADER in the wire?

[Black_Jesus]

stringer had already neutralized marlo. but he was sold out by avon, who wanted to shoot it out rather than think strategically. the greeks recognized stringer's leadership and management qualities, which is why they preferred him to avon and marlo.

you got it backwards Stringer sold out Avon.. remember Stringer was an informant and he the reason the police new exactly where Avon was during the drugwar which is how they got raided just as they were about to hit Marlo at the rim shop..

Also Prop Joe was who the greeks were working with. not Stringer

 

[kermit da hustla]

you got it backwards Stringer sold out Avon.. remember Stringer was an informant and he the reason the police new exactly where Avon was during the drugwar which is how they got raided just as they were about to hit Marlo at the rim shop..

Also Prop Joe was who the greeks were working with. not Stringer

Stringer sold out Avon after he started fukking up his money. Avon's decisions were bad for business and brought too much heat upon the outfit. And you're right about prop joe. But stringer did manage the coop, which had ultimately silenced Marlo until Avon fukked shyt up.

 

[Black_Jesus]

Stringer sold out Avon after he started fukking up his money. Avon's decisions were bad for business and brought too much heat upon the outfit. And you're right about prop joe. But stringer did manage the coop, which had ultimately silenced Marlo until Avon fukked shyt up.

silenced Marlo??

I dont recall Marlo ever being neutralised.. Stringer fukked up his own money trying to be a developer getting robbed by Clay Davis left and right.. Marlo was bad for buisness trying to take over corners and he was unwilling to join a co op so how was Avon wrong for trying to end that nikka?

 

[kermit da hustla]

silenced Marlo??

I dont recall Marlo ever being neutralised.. Stringer fukked up his own money trying to be a developer getting robbed by Clay Davis left and right.. Marlo was bad for buisness trying to take over corners and he was unwilling to join a co op so how was Avon wrong for trying to end that nikka?

Stringer didn't need the corners anymore. He told Avon that. He said let Marlo have those corners, but avon was too shortsighted to understand what stringer was clueing him into. Avon caught feelings over his snitching nephew. He caught feelings over Marlo. He lost sight of all the money he had and what he could do with it. He set up his best friend, the man with whom he built an empire, and ended up going back to jail to serve out fed numbers.

 

[DaylitoJames]

Avon Barkdale was the best leader. How long before season 1 started did the Barksdale crew ran Baltimore WITHOUT knowing what Avon looked like? McNulty and the police was after Stringer mainly cause they knew who he was but until Freeman was put on the case did they ever figure out how Avon looked like. Plus like Avon told D'Angelo that the Barksdale family ran the drug trade for YEARS!

 

[trollol]

stringer had already neutralized marlo. but he was sold out by avon, who wanted to shoot it out rather than think strategically. the greeks recognized stringer's leadership and management qualities, which is why they preferred him to avon and marlo.

nope, marlo walked out of that meeting, like fukk stringer, we're going to war

remember the co-op meeting when POOT of all people called him out and had that one goon shaking his head at stringer trying to play wall st

"i'll worry about that when it happens" - no leadership at all there. stringer SHOULD'VE planned for marlo or took care of him before avon came out




stringer was a good character, but made too many mistakes

 

[PHamm]

The Greek, without a second thought. he was a true boss unlike avon and marlo who got caught slippin

 

[Black_Jesus]

Stringer didn't need the corners anymore. He told Avon that. He said let Marlo have those corners, but avon was too shortsighted to understand what stringer was clueing him into. Avon caught feelings over his snitching nephew. He caught feelings over Marlo. He lost sight of all the money he had and what he could do with it. He set up his best friend, the man with whom he built an empire, and ended up going back to jail to serve out fed numbers.

you not remembering right.. Avon nephew never snitched.. he was going to, then changed his mind... Stringer was an actual informant to the major of the Western district.. Stringer fukked up while Avon was in jail by ignoring the corners and allowing a nikka like Marlo to rise up and take shyt.. Stringer had to die because he tried to have Brother Muzoune killed behind Avon back when Avon hired Muzoune as muscle, and Muzoune found out about.. Muzoune was well connected in NY and threatened to have anything connected to Barksdale cut of from new york.. which would really have been be bad for business... Stringer made a lot of mistakes and handled shyt wrong.. nikka was about to have Senator Clay Davis merked by Slim Charles.. that woulda been really bad for business

 

[R=G]

Anyone can get got with proper justification for it...there just wasn't enough money to make it right.

 

[kermit da hustla]

nope, marlo walked out of that meeting, like fukk stringer, we're going to war

remember the co-op meeting when POOT of all people called him out and had that one goon shaking his head at stringer trying to play wall st

"i'll worry about that when it happens" - no leadership at all there. stringer SHOULD'VE planned for marlo or took care of him before avon came out




stringer was a good character, but made too many mistakes

That wasn't the coop meeting.

 

[Vandelay]

Avon Barkdale was the best leader. How long before season 1 started did the Barksdale crew ran Baltimore WITHOUT knowing what Avon looked like? McNulty and the police was after Stringer mainly cause they knew who he was but until Freeman was put on the case did they ever figure out how Avon looked like. Plus like Avon told D'Angelo that the Barksdale family ran the drug trade for YEARS!

This.

Stringer was my favorite character on the show; and I saw his POV on shyt...but if he didn't try to change the policy on things; they would still would have run shyt in the long run.

 

[Black_Jesus]

I don't see how anyone can respect Stringer after season 3... dude turned out to be a real snake and a weak nikka. He had Deangelo merked because he thought he would testify and the whole time it turned out String was an informant himself... My main beef was if String didn't want no parts if that street life he coulda left at any point and did his development thing..cool.. Marlo was fukkin up all parts of the game for Avon, but String didn't wanna go to war, but as soon as he finds out he was getting played by Sen. Clay Davis, he wanna revert back to that life and send a hitter out on him... Avon tells him to fall back, so String runs to a police and gives up Avons location and when he'll be around a lot of guns.. String went out like a bytch... Mozoune teamed up with Omar.. they was gonna get to String at some point regardless if Avon looked the other way or not.. String had to be got regardless. .. soldiers didn't even respect his rank anymore neither... Stringer name shouldn't even be on the poll

 

[ThaRealness]

stringer had already neutralized marlo. but he was sold out by avon, who wanted to shoot it out rather than think strategically. the greeks recognized stringer's leadership and management qualities, which is why they preferred him to avon and marlo.

Bullshyt. Marlo would have tried to take the westside regardless.

Avon was right about Marlo at the end of the day.. the other characters misjudged him.

dude clearly should have been taken out early on. he was such a dikk

 

[Danny Up]

Avon Barkdale was the best leader. How long before season 1 started did the Barksdale crew ran Baltimore WITHOUT knowing what Avon looked like? McNulty and the police was after Stringer mainly cause they knew who he was but until Freeman was put on the case did they ever figure out how Avon looked like. Plus like Avon told D'Angelo that the Barksdale family ran the drug trade for YEARS!

Avon and them were the "new power". they had only controlled the projects for a year.

 

[Malik]

People argue all day and night about Avon & Stringer and miss the most obvious point. Avon and Stringer were the same coin, different sides. Yin & Yang. Muscle & Smarts. Without Avon's muscle, Stringer would have the crew looking weak out there and he needed someone to keep him grounded, otherwise he would kept getting played by them downtown boys thinking he was really Gordon Gekko instead of a drug dealer. Without Stringer's wisdom, Avon would be out there going to war with a bunch of young nikkas over some dumb ass corners. He'd never see the big picture. Also Avon needed someone to make hard decisions. String wasn't tougher than Avon but, he was smart enough to know D'Angelo and Wallace had to go. They were a perfect team.



They were way better leaders than Marlo. It was more a family thing over there. I mean, you can only trust drug dealers so far but, Avon had basketball games, dinners, after parties at Orlando's. N*ggas took Stinkum out to eat when he got his package. With Marlo, it was none of that one mistake over there and you were covered in lime Marlo was so dumb, he bought all that attention on his organization with all those bodies and was out the game quick while Avon/String went unnoticed for almost a decade.