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Monday, August 02, 2010
“Judge The Performance, Not The Character”
A great writeup, and I love the conclusion:
But, that’s not an interesting story, and so it doesn’t get written. Instead, we get speculation about what the players might be doing to try and sabotage their manager, tea-leaf reading about the interpretation of some comment that was or wasn’t made in a way that some journalist thinks it should have been made, and the results of echo chamber conversations where a bunch of people who all think the same reinforce each other’s biases and then try to pass their opinions off as news.
Ignore all of it. None of it actually contains any kind of insight that you should care about.
The Mariners hitters stink. They’ve run into some really good pitchers lately. The result has been ugly. These are facts – stick to those. Leave the uninformed speculation about the players trying to get their managers fired to everyone else. It’s not worthy of discussion.