Aaron, my apologies if that violates site civility rules, but Greg’s comment was seriously stupid.

Also, stop this nonsense about a blogger’s job being predicated on the beat reporter doing his. Stats are readily available and anyone can watch the games. Take out a Cuddyer quote here or there, and you wouldn’t lose the blog.

Yes, you are blaming reporters for taking that approach. But that is what is so great about being a blogger and using other people’s work and research; you don’t need to talk to primary sources yourself and thus don’t need to get along with anyone when you type up their quotes, add some stats and commentary, and call it a blog entry.

In the real world, you can’t always be 100% honest with your wife, your kid, your neighbor, your boss, your co-worker, or your source if you are a reporter, because you need to get along and have some degree of compromise and respect to get things done. That is life, and just because I don’t say my boss is stupid to his face doesn’t mean I don’t think it or know it. See the difference?

I would be careful of believing that a person on the “outside” with no access is in a better position to reach conclusions in any situation, whether it be politics, relationships, or a baseball team.

Yes, you would absolutely be doing the same thing in their shoes, and you know this. You would be fired if you were a beat reporter covering a team and no player or coach would talk to you. So since you can’t do your job well without the beat reporters doing theirs, have some perspective, please.

Regards.

I could rant for a while but I will limit it to our catching situation today. Neither Butera or Rivera are major league calibar players and it doesn’t take a scout or Sabermetrics to see it. When my mom walks into a room and knows that it’s a bad thing to see Butera at the plate it’s pretty clear he is absolulely brutal.

When Coomer was filling in for Bert in the Chicago series on the FSN broadcast Butera had a 2-0 count in the 2nd inning against Jackson and Coomer said “This is where a guy hitting just .100 really needs to let it fly.” As Jackson released the pitch Coomer fires a “Here we go” line of encouragement and Butera delivers with a pop out to shortstop.

I am not calling for them to make any trades to solidify the catching position but it’s tough to watch the train wreck called Twins baseball this season.

Is there any way the Twins can talk Tim Laudner into strapping on the gear again? His .680 career OPS looks Cooperstown worthy next to Butera and Rivera’s numbers.

Take Holm off the 40-man and bring this guy up! He can’t be any worse than what we already have….