No, no one was.

That said, given that you were directly responding to the now defunct #105, I thought he could use a little help. That guy’s a sap. I’m curious as to how he’s even possible to function in society with, you know, saying all those things that he never even said. Does he use telepathy? Is it a controllable urge? Does he even know when he’s said-but-not-said them?

Instead of having the dunderhead, who coincidentally goes by the same name as I do, come in and spoil the conversation by saying more things that he wasn’t saying, I thought I’d come in and speak for him.

So no, no one was talking to me. It was totally directed toward Josh. I’ll go back to my corner now, because I clearly don’t know what I’m talking about.

Hmm… Or I could have the viewpoint that I’ve portrayed within every single post I’ve put up.

Nah, that’s too logical. It would be of much more shock value were I to pull a random belief from my sleeve that I had never taken a moment to prove, quite possibly because it happens to be absurd.

The sky is falling!!!11!!11one! (!)

No one is about to commit suicide over this; we just see it as yet another bad player decision by Mariners management in a loooooong string of them.

It is in fact possible to think that this was a mistake while simultaneously not wearing sackcloth and scratching myself with potshards, or considering it to be the end of the world. I’m doing it right now, actually.

I thought only Japanese pitchers still did that and then only in offseason camps….

How much bad contract aggregation do you really fear for 2007 and 2008? If you want to wear sackcloth and scratch yourself with potshards over this, knock yourself out, but it’s really not the end of the world.