Fire Joe Vavra

“I am hungover and probably still drunk, but plz read some of my ideas!”

or else I am really confused.

I think he’s mostly saying that it’s nice to have offensive depth to be able to cover Morneau’s absence. At least that’s what I’ve taken away from it. Which flies in the face of the Twins-Still-Lose-With-Morneau theory we’ve heard about from Johnny recently.

Or I’m just making it up as I go.

Twins more patient = Vavra doing his job, + foolish fans calling for Vavra’s head = Irony

in the same way that foolish fans calling for the org. to trade Young or Gomez or Cuddyer is ironic now that Morneau is hurt.

Unfortunately, he isn’t as smart as he would like us all to believe as his analogy falls apart.

He recognizes it, so he hides it through a bait and switch, and subtle deception, all the while calling people who would disagree with his opinuions foolish, even before they’ve had an opportunity to open their mouths (or punch their keyboard).

He recognizes it so he resorts to propping up players that he has previously been ruthlessly dismissive of in the past (see nate below), ignoring his own hypocrisy all the while calling others out for his perception of their hypocrisy.

See, Delmon hasn’t been that good since coming to the Twins, and Gomez hasn’t been much better, and poor Johnny (who has trashed both before) has to resort to propping them up today to try and make his strained analogy. And poor Johnny has to resort to ruthlessly dismissing Jason Tyner, a man who hasn’t been here for two years instead of invoking Pridie, or Kubel as the team’s two actual backup OF who are more than passable, and capable of being the backup OF for a world championship team.

Poor Johnny. He outsmarted himself with his vinegar tongue and foul ‘Ed-Begleyness’

Poor, poor troll.

Young sucks

Wow. I had no idea I was THAT consistent about ol’ Del. Thanks for going back and reading all my stuff. An enviable enjoyment for you.

But what are we going to do about these meager reading and comprehension skills of yours, RoomTemp? It’s a chronic problem.

Note the " ’s " here, which serves as “is”: Young’s an awful ballplayer.

It doesn’t say “will always be.” It’s present tense.

 I wrote the some five months ago when it was true. The landscape changes fast in the big leagues. I’m not someone like Mathewson, who tenaciously clings to the same “chapter and verse” refrains, such as his favorite: claiming Ron Gardenhire “hates rookies,” even though it’s been disproven.

(Of course, ol’ RoomTemp couldn’t even name the three rookies Gardy started in a crucial game recently. Yikes.)

Baseball is a game of changes, and 6 good weeks can make a guy’s season look good. So it is with Delmon.

However, he still is an awful player.

Oh, heck, let’s mitigate that, given his improved recent OPS (an OPS worse than Nick Punto’s recent OPS, but an improved one still): Delmon is a little less awful these days. He’s not as bad a Jason Tyner anymore, but then no one expected that to continue (there’s that “game of changes” theme, RoomTemp. Make a note of that.)

Being a wise baseball man, I was never so stupid as some here. I said Del was awful. And he’s still awful. Or pretty close to it. Don’t you watch the games?

But I didn’t suggest trading or, in one case, releasing Delmon. That’s because I’m a smart boy, and I can see that he’s blessed with some talent. Oh, no, he can’t run as well as Tyner or cover the same amount of ground, but he has way more offensive potential. He sure does pepper the ball around the whole playing field, doesn’t he? Maybe the power will come next.

The guy sure can’t run bases. See that “slide” into third the other night? Remindful of Pedro Guerrero during one really bad day in spring training.

Can’t field. People run on him all the time and still he’s maybe got five assists this year. Lots of times you’ll see outfielders with bad judgment and good arms pile up assists, but Delmon can’t even do that.

Even at awful, or nearly awful, Del’s a way better option than Jason Tyner offensively. Never said he wasn’t, though, did I. But you’re not much for context. Darn those old feeblie comprehension skills anyway, huh, RoomTemp?

Thanks for reading my Fanposts, though I’m sure you enjoyed them as much as I enjoy reading Less Cowgirl, Moreneu’s FanPosts. Oh, that’s right: He’s never written a Fanpost. Oops. My mistake. After 2,000 comments he’s finally written one. He’s gonna catch up to your 3 pretty soon.

Four Fanposts from you two? We call that “following,” and man, no one follows my stuff more than you, RoomTemp.

Keep a-readin’.

Neat. 75 responses in this thread. The ol’ puppetmaster’s arms are getting tired.

That made me chuckle.