Foul!
The Cartel has responded to my note about Ayala as follows:
A rebuttal to your comment about trading Ayala for an open spot in which to retain Jim Brower (implying this was a poor move). Mike Krukow had said the day before that Jim Brower was throwing the ball “as well or better than anyone in the Giant pen”, implying that he was a leading contender for the closer job. And I had to chase every possible closer as both Borowski and Tsao went down to injuries early on, and thus I chased Brower as I had/have chased many other potential closers: Wellemeyer; Bernero, etc. I believe I was second to you guys on Farnsworth (in this case for next year, and you know I took a flyer on Bruney during the draft). I’m still chasing them… Wuertz, Wheeler, Aquino, etc.
Retrospective analysis of moves without context is a little misleading.
So what if it’s misleading? That’s the fun in this! It's my newspaper, and here at Sour Grapes, our motto is "All the news that's shit, we print."
On a completely unrelated note, has anyone in the history of baseball batting in the middle of the order ever had a softer season than Sean Casey? He was 3 for 4 today, bringing his average up to .322. No RBI’s today, batting 5th in the order. He generally bats 5th, sometimes 3rd. He has 456 AB’s and 145 hits, but only 8 homers and 50 RBI’s.
Speaking of that game, Weathers got a save for Any 9. They’ve got a lot of saves ground to make up in the next 5 weeks.
posted by PEFACommish at 3:35 PM
1 Comments:
Here's where you made your mistake, Greg, you misinterepreted what Krukow said. . .“as well or better than anyone in the Giant pen”. The problem with this statement is that you have to put it in context. . . .just as you complained that Josh didn't do. No one in the Giants pen was throwing well, so if Brower was throwing "as well as or better than anyone in the Giants pen" that means that he just sucks a little bit less than the rest of rag-armed heavers who also suck. As it turned out, he really sucked. That's a shame.
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