Comments on: A very brief reiteration of our position on Mr. Bloomquist

By: loki

loki — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:07:14 +0000

The numbers do seem to have been replaced with regular list bullets. Perhaps its just because I’m using Safari.

Looking at the source html, it looks like there may be a problem with the ul and ol tags. Comments start off with a ul tag but end with a /ol tag, and in general it looks like ul and ol tags are not consistently opened / closed with the correct matching tag.

Hope that helps.

By: Ralph Malph

Ralph Malph — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:45:20 +0000

Emiliano Fruto was born June 6, 1984. I have seen speculation before that he’s older but never understood why that is — is it because of his heavy build? Do we just assume Latin players lie about their age? I don’t think that’s as easy to do as it used to be, since 9/11.

He graduated from high school in 2001, according to the M’s website.

What happened to the numbers on the comments??

By: BelaXadux

BelaXadux — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:18:34 +0000

The org’s infatuation with Willie Bloomquist makes me sad. And enervated. I’ll leave it there. Or just plain leave it altogether.

By: msb

msb — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:37:38 +0000

Fruto is 22 years old??!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:35:59 +0000

Derek’s right, that never works. We put something about WFB in the FAQ a long time ago, but that never gets read, either.

By: Ralph Malph

Ralph Malph — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:28:31 +0000

Fruto, Mateo or Rivera worse than WFB? Fruto is 22 years old and has thrown 36 major league innings. He makes the major league minimum, and has had some success as a minor league closer. No, he’s not a great prospect but he’s still just a prospect.

Rivera is 23, and has had 150 major league at bats — and 279 minor league at bats above A-ball. I doubt he’ll ever amount to much, but the way he was rushed to the bigs makes it unfair to say he’s a terrible player.

Mateo wasn’t very good this year but he’s had far more major league success in previous years than WFB ever has — and he’s the same age as Bloomquist, 29.

I think it’s totally unfair to say those guys are worse players than Bloomquist.

By: Jeff Nye

Jeff Nye — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:24:07 +0000

I don’t really like to cast people as being “clueless” for not understanding why the long-term readership of this site feels the way it does about Mr. Bloomquist.

There is definitely a step that people have to make from going from the casual, soccer-mom type of Mariners fan that the club has gone out of its way to cultivate and accomodate (that tends to LOVE players like Wee Willie), to a fan with a deeper understanding of the mechanics of the game and, in particular, a fan who understands the meaning of the term “replacement level”.

It’s a step I had to take myself (and in a lot of ways, I’m still in the process of taking that step), and not everyone takes that step at the same pace.

By: IdahoInvader

IdahoInvader — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 23:14:03 +0000

Its weird that Grover seems so infatuated with Willie’s limited hitting skillset, in that Grover himself was a COMPLETELY opposite type of hitter.

Grover:
-Lefty
-NO speed
-Hit for a higher average
-Walked a ton
-Didn’t K much

(Ok, neither had much power, but anyone, inlcuding Grover had more than Wee Willie)

By: DMZ

DMZ — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:38:29 +0000

Yeah, that never works though.

By: joser

joser — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:34:41 +0000

Actually, we just need to set up Wordpress to autolink this article to any use of the term “Bloomquist” — perhaps, though, it would be enough for the site authors to just make their first use of “Bloomquist” in any post link to this, so that when the inevitable clueless newcomer bitching about WFB begins we can all just say “read the link!” and move on.