The Steve Phillips bathroom material type “pundits” don’t really count.

To suggest that nobody saw this coming is revisionist history at it’s finest unless the one making that statement is admitting that he completely discounts the opinions of those in the saber community as unworthy of consideration.

What a burrito (and that’s not a complement).

I can’t say that I agree with that statement. For all you know he’s calling out the blog that I write for. If he doesn’t call out the blog by name, how can you be certain that he’s calling out USSM.

I’m fairly new to this little blog.v.blog thing so I don’t know all the story, but I do agree that Baker shouldn’t have thrown another Mariners blog under the bus. All of us are fellow Mariners fans. I don’t see how our opinions on player interviews matter.

I have read the other entries here and agree with some points but overall just have a little different opinion. Should be no harm no foul right?

Well, then it just looks very rude to bring the subject up and totally ignore what’s been written.

It looks like you’re not paying attention and don’t care to.

Remember when Jeff Nelson piped up about the team needing to do something to improve themselves? They punished him by sending him to the Yankees so he could pitch in the playoffs.

just a reminder that the Mariners were talking about the trade of Nelson for the 2 weeks before he shot his mouth off.

To give an example (please don’t derail into a discussion about him), if I were to meet Jose Vidro in the grocery store, I’d be polite to the guy; but if pressed, you’re darn straight that I’d tell him that I think that he’s a drag on the team, there’s no reason he should ever be a DH for a Major League team, and that he’s blocking the team from exploring better options at the position.

So it’s wrong to imply that people here are hiding behind the Internet to say nasty things about players; hell, I post here using my real name, and if Willie Bloomquist wanted to track me down for saying mean things about him from time to time, it wouldn’t take that much work.

I just hope that if he were to try, that he’d use a baseball bat to do it; I should be pretty safe.

his passion for the team came through in his exuberance

Always thought Bone might make an interesting managerial pick, too, for that reason. At least if the team was slumping, you could count on him to light a fire under some rear ends.

Literally!

It’d be a lot different if you walked into the Mariners clubhouse tomorrow and had to face the guys you butcher at times here (not that they don’t deserve it). Geoff has to face the people he writes about daily

In which case, it’s not about “accountability”, and he should stop throwing the word around.