Preaching to the choir… something that always bugs me. I live in a current example of dealing with that. Well put.

I won’t belabor the point. I tend to run things into the ground — that’s my thing. I think I actually did made the dead horse/digging up it’s rotting corpose joke about myself and GUillen a couple of weeks ago. But if it’s bugging people, I’ll ease off. I know I’m not the only one on here who does that or who has his/her own “thing” that sets them off, but if everyone else here was jumping off of a cliff…

I get along, at least from my perspective, with everyone on here. I dunno, I can’t think of anyone I don’t like (who knows, maybe I’m the Gomer Pyle in this situation (“Alright Pyle, I don’t like you and you don’t like me.” “I like you, sergeant.” “Ok, you like me, but I don’t like you.” Well, maybe if you got ot know me better…"). I can actually think of specific posts/comments on here that have a different take on Guillen, but I’m trying not to be a vindictive jerk, and those people are entitled to those opinions, but I don’t want to name names or link to that stuff here.

I did post this because it was about Guillen, and it’s a “slow news day” or whatever. I thought the RBI for Fielders article itself was pretty interesting given the prominent Royals it featured, and that it was an approach to giving run values to defense. I would have posted it even if Guillen wasn’t a major player. And so on. I won’t defend every post or show where other people do similar things.

I do find it frustrating that, other than Posnanski (well-known nabob of negativism… I guess he has a big piece on DMGM coming out, so they’re still friends after the Hillman article. Dayton’s nothing if not good at keeping the bread-buttered. Apparently he talked a bunch about OBP), the KC Star’s much-vaunted sports-page people, including Sam “One of Us” Mellinger, raved about the streak and defend his behavior (whatever) as if they’re sticking up for a poor, oppressed soul, and then hardly mention his crappy second-half. People commenting on his blog called him on it. I do like Mellinger, but it’s easy, in the middle of Guillen’s big hot streak, to say “great signing!!!111” Hey, that’s fine, but then just admit you were wrong later. Saying “I wrote that in the middle of that hot streak” makes him look stupid, not excusable. Then there’s Flanagan… yeah, he a well-known idiot. FJM makes a habit out of going after those guys (if you think me.vs. Guillen is bad, check out FJM vs. Jon Heyman, Bill Plaschke, Derek Jeter, David Eckstein…)

Anyway, now I’m into substantive issues. But stuff like that sets me off. It’s not as bad here, buit effects what I post… Like when I saw a commenter elsewhere write “It’s hard to take seriously anyone who thinks that Alex Gordon is a better offensive player than Jose Guillen.”

Realizing that JoGui ended up being worth about 1 win better than Emil Brown offensively didn’t help much. Then when I looked at the defensive difference… ugh. If it makes me look a bit more restrained, I thought about doing an “Would you Rather Have a Hoagie or A Meal? Vindicating Joe Posnanski” FanPost, but I thought it would be too much… So, I’m learning.

So, I’ll just stop the rambling. You (all) aren’t my therapists. yet. I have tried to reign it in… this particular tidbit I did want to pass on, though. as it was a specific piece of news.

I’ll add an appropriate tag.

Thanks, and good night…. sorry for the rambling. I ‘m too lazy to edit this. Hope i didn’t embarrass myself to bad.

I do have a post percolating that I think might be of interest to people utilizing Hit Tracker to analyze the Royals HR power (or lack thereof) this year… just need to hear back from Greg with some more data fro this year.

Thanks fo the note. In the words of T. W. Adorno, “The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.”