If the M’s paid the entirety of both players’ salaries? Still no.

north Says:

Hey Sexson’s not the only high paid 1b struggling to open the season.

At least the D….

Minnesota’s Justin Morneau, the 2006 AL MVP who signed an $80 million, six-year contract this winter, is still bouncing balls off the carpet instead of driving them over the wall. After Michael Cuddyer started the seventh with a single, Morneau followed with a chopper to second that made an easy double play and fell to 0-for-10 this season.

“It’ll turn around,” Morneau said. “I have confidence. I’ve hit all my life, so that’s what I believe I’ll do.”

Morneau made the play of the series, though, at first base when he dived to his left and stopped a chopper down the line hit by the ultra-fast Chone Figgins in the fifth. When the ball bounced out of his glove, Morneau sprung to his feet. He picked it up in foul territory and blindly tossed it backward in one motion to Blackburn — who calmly covered the bag and got the out.

So, do you think the Twins would trade us Morneau for Richie straight up?

No. The Mariners know the risks when they sign a long term contract with a player. They are going to have to DFA him and eat the contract.

What is our recourse if we think that an important part of that service — Sexson, the cleanup hitter — is performing his duties in an unsatisfactory way? And not just this season, but also last season and, let’s face it, the season before (more than half his HRs in 2006 were hit in the second half of the second half, after the team was out of the running.)

We can’t leave a smaller tip, or stop coming to games (season tix are a sunk cost). So the only option we have to express our dismay is to boo Sexson. We need to let management know that we think this part of their service is unacceptable.

I don’t care how great your starting pitching is, if you dont have a strong 4-hole hitter, you are not going to be a successful team over 162 games. Or even 24 games in a high-school season.

“it’s a mob mentality, they are bullying Richie Sexson into crying.”

Perhas he can go live with Bobby Ayala?

In Boston or NY or Philie he’d be facing worse, and the media would be leading the charge.

You know what a hall of mirrors is? KJR is a hall of morons. Except when Dave is on there, anyway. Thanks again to msb for enduring it so the rest of us don’t have to.

I’m a season ticket holder that converses with all the other season ticket holders in my section. Although I watch baseball for the sheer love of the game, some of the folks we sit near are as rabid at number crunching as the USSM reader-ship are. And they agree, Richie sucks and should be booed!

Time for Charlton or Buhner or one of the other ex-players who are still somewhat involved with the club to sit him down and explain how this happens to everyone eventually, and that now is the time to retire with a shred of dignity.

“it’s a mob mentality, they are bullying Richie Sexson into crying.”

edited: because it’s there. I tried to hold off but the countdown timer won me over.

Yeah, but Morneau is on the right side of 30.