Geoff Baker: Mental Midget

So as I promised yesterday I will bring you, my dear loyal readers, more ammo for our fight against Geoff and his blog. I will keep tirelessly doing this until Geoff confronts me and accepts my challenge of a blog off.

So today's Geoff-ism comes from his pre-game post yesterday "There should be smiles galore out in blogland today. That's because Richie Sexson is back in the Mariners lineup, batting seventh."

Give me a break Geoff, there wasn't a single fan in Marinerdom that was excited about the return of Richie to the lineup, especially when the act of reinsertion seems wholly random. As I said in my last post, peole just felt that Richie gave the team a better shot to win in that given situation. Nobody was advocating Richie as The Igniter II (The Original Igniter being Willie Bloomquist).

Coming out and putting incredibly imbecilic words into your readers collective mouth is no way to endear yourself to them. Nor does it do anything to settle the disagreement on poor in-game management. Yet Geoff seems to revel in making these kind of comments. Like throwing rocks at a hornets nest.

Anyway, shortly after picking up an anti-Richie pinch-hitting ran he throws us a highly confusing little quote from manager John MacLaren on why Richie was back in the swing of things, so to speak. Note his little parting jab at the MacLaren haters/Richie pinch-hit people, classy Geoff, real classy.

"What I was thinking was, I wanted him with a fresh start,'' McLaren said. "He cleared his mind, he worked hard and tonight he's going to get that start. I understand, some people have told me there's been a lot of talk about why we didn't use him yesterday. I'm kind of glad. Maybe we're rallying around this guy a little bit. He needs that. And we need him.''

So, there you go. Congratulations. Apparently, the fan voice has been heard loud and clear. Um, maybe.

No comment on how little sense MacLaren's reasoning makes, or why it's necessary to sit out an entire week to fix your swing, or why Miguel Cairo suddenly stopped "hitting the ball pretty well" Grow some huevos there Geoff and question why things are happening.

This kind of taking nonsensical answers at face value is how this country got into the post 9/11 quagmire of Iraq, Domestic Spying, Secret Prisons, etc...

It's the same way this team thought it was a contender last year despite giving up more runs than scored. It's what led the team to deal a ton of prospects for a #1 Staff Ace and declare itself a contender. It led to the Soriano for Ho-Ram trade and if no one calls them on this BS they'll continue to make poor decisions and back them up with half-answers and flawed logic.

But rather than ask a tough question, Geoff chooses to let it go at face value and instead pick a fight with his readers. In the process Geoff just adds fuel to my fire.