I don’t think dave is a clueless jackass, but I do take this site to task at times for being able to dish out out to managers and management and then being awfully defensive themselves when called on it. And then falling back on small sample size and other defenses of the process over results, which is fine, but some of the more blatant examples that i thought at the time were wrong were: calling out twins for signing Kubel, defending Brian Giles as a good bet to be worth his contract this year, that White Sox got a steal with Rios and Blue Jays were foolish, this article…I think there tends to be some blindness at times as to what is going on in front of there noses. With Kubel, a decent chance of improvement. With Giles,a good chance a bounce back year last year masked the undeniable overall decline (and a desire to back their consistent argument that you can’t write off players at x age due to a brief cold streak). With Hudson and Belliard, a likely injury or just run down player. With Rios, someone in a pretty serious tailspin (which he may reverse next year, who knows, but also forgetting the Blue Jays signed him right before the economy collapsed and as their attendance fell off a cliff, and no one would claim Wells so that wouldn’t have helped). You get the feeling that in baerga or Robbie Alomar’s first year with the Mets Dave would have been saying lay off Mets fans, these guys will bounce back. Sometimes, guys don’t.

EVEN GOOGLE UNDERSTANDS MARK SANCHEZ IS FULL OF POISE-FUL POISENESS.

Ah yes, the “Don’t you dare talk about my team” argument.

Believe it or not Chicken Little, the ability for one to see a blimish shouldn’t be taken as if the sky will fall. And I know this may come as a shock to you, but no team lives in a force-field bubble protecting them from having flaws – even the team you root for.

Now don’t worry, we understand it takes time coming to grips with imperfection. But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t do you some good to remove that denial from your forehead.