Earnest Borgnine of 9

As usual, and from the usual suspects, there's some serious vitriol on here. Must be real fun knowing some of you folks personally. Willie and mt nailed it. I think there's room for middle ground. It's OK to decide to do something other than watch this disappointing team each evening without being considered a band wagon fan.

He hasn't been all that bad at all, if you don't count defense.

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Jepsen had a big turnaround last year, carried it through ST, and had a decent April until he got hurt. Guess we can only make causal relationships with Butcher if it's a negative. Anyway, Butcher lost much credibility when he made the "sleep like a baby" comment, IMHO.

And that was really my only point,, which was that he's been good for us. "Good" being relative. He's crucial for this team considering our other options at catcher. Of course, the greater point was responding to those who actually wanted to blame Scioscia for Congers fielding last night. I asked why Scioscias impact on Conger seems to have caused him to be a bad fielder, an erroneous argument, while Ianettabseems immune.

Like I said, done with you. Keep focusing on the fire Scioscia bandwagon....as though that will improve Congers fielding.

I'm laughing at the statement. So he gave up a home run. Those three runs were the only earned runs in the game. The rest was thanks to Conger, but let's conveniently forget that. Wilson has been good for us this year.

Hell yes. Another reason why this loss was on Conger.

It's ok. Let's just fire everyone even though we can't rationalize why that will improve individual players' performance. Talk about emotional, knee jerk reaction. I'm done with you.

No. My response to mp is being ignored. Like two ships passing in the night, you can't see the connection.

Because mp wanted to blame Scioscia for Congers fielding and I asked why Scioscia has not had the same impact on Ianettas fielding, to which Robblin replied that Ianetta was not good, only average. This may be true, but where would we be without Ianetta? Of course this misses the point I was making. Why is Scioscia to blame for Congers poor fielding, but Ianettas is fine. This point has not been addressed because Robblin wanted to go on a tangent about Ianetta. LOL.

OK, Rainman, keep repeating the same thing.

I never said he was outstanding; I said he has been good for us. You are building a straw man. At any rate, our problems tonight were not Scioscias or Ianettas fault.

I can't believe anyone is on here complaining about Ianetta. Are you freakng kidding me? He's not, in any way, the problem. Further, you can't blame Scioscia for Conger and then say Ianetta is not immune to whatever influence Scioscia may be having on Conger, thus contributing to Congers poor fielding. I feel as though I'm arguing with children. WTF?

Who said he was outstanding? But he's been good for us. How has he not been?

You need to reread this thread, apparently. I asked a simple question: is Ianetta the exception to your rule. Then you wanted to qualify statements about his goodness. I usually don't try to validate a claim I never made. YOU are the one who inferred Ianetta was no good. My post was in response to mp and his accusation that Scioscia was the cause of Congers bad fielding. There is no way you can blame the manager for that. I asked if Ianetta was the exception, because if Scioscias management caused Congers fielding woes, it surely doesn't seem to have rubbed off on Ianetta. Please explain where this logic went wrong?

Get a clue. "the big home run" ... LMAO.

Good to see all of the numbers backing you up.I'll go way out on a limb and say that if average means you don't commit three errors in a game and give up four unearned runs as a result, then I'll take average any day. But you go ahead and tell us all that Ianetta doesn't do a good job as our catcher. I really don't care what you think because you've already indicated you are not very well informed.

Then you didn't watch Weavers game against Texas. CJ did fine tonight.

Huh? He's a good catcher. There, I said it. You need to pay better attention, my friend.

Well, that's quite a stretch. Now Congers fielding is scioscias fault. Is ianetta the exception to your rule?

Wrong about our catchers, there, my friend. It's indeed ironic that our farm can't generate a stellar catcher when our manager was one and places such importance on that role.

Today's loss was all Congers. How is a manager supposed to inspire him out of committing errors?

A dominatrix on a bad day.

Same thing from you all the time with no substance.