Why do you choose to believe that I implied anything, let alone thta I implied #2?

I was posing a question.

My personal answer is that the fans of KC have to share in some of the blame in his meltdown.

Everybody knows that the guy has issues, and a lot of people, with Ketizman heading the charge, have made the decision to “poke the bear with a stick”. Nobody seems to believe it is possible that the guy is hurt, and doing what he can. Everybody pissed & moaned when Sweeney would go on the DL with a back injury, and new we get a guy that could potentially be playing through a fair degree of pain, and the collective fan base turns on him in a heartbeat, just because of his ‘reputation’. The manager has come out and said that he told Jose to ‘do what he could’ when he was fighting whatever issues he had with his legs. If that means jogging to first on what 99% of the time is a routine play, then that is what Jose did. If that means not moving toward a fly ball to the gap when the fastest guy on the team is closer to it, and can get o it, thats what he did.

I DO

I’d even be willing to swallow a little money, or take on someone else’s albatross (like Austin Kearns)

Which teammates have asserted that Jose is a jerk to them? For that matter, outside of a run-of-the-mill clubhouse disagreement with McClure, what evidence do we have that he’s a jerk to the coaching staff?

Seriously, I think anyone who puts any weight at all on this stuff in the absence of reports of serious conflicts has, you know, never had a job, where real human beings grouse about their lazy-ass coworkers and bitch about their bosses every day. And before someone belches up something like “But that’s a dream job, they should suck it up” needs to understand that even dream jobs have rough spots, and people still bitch.

but getting 80 RBIs when while playing every day (even when he should probably be resting his strained groins) and hitting 4th behind the teams best OBP guys (not himself, but Gordon [for the first half], DeJesus, and Aviles isn’t all that amazing. Hell, Tony Batista had 110 RBIs for Montreal in 2004. Although at this point even worse (but just barely) adjusted rate stats than Emil Guillen.

The afore mentioned ‘talk radio’ voices have repeatedly said things like, “too far” and “How did it get this bad” when referring to Jose. Really? What has he done that is irreperable? Absolutely nothing (expect possibly his relationship w/ McClure, but we’ll a) never the the details on what happened, and b) who gives a shit of a P coach doesn’t get along w/ an OF’er?)

I can’t really blame the media in KC. It’s been so long since they;ve had a reason to talk about the Royals in August they are just milking it for all its (not) worth. You should hear how they are blabbering on & on endlessly about the Chiefs fucking KICKING situation?!?!?!? Like that matters! Ooh, if they pick the wrong kicker they may only get 4 wins instead of 5, so liets overanalyze this for hours on end!!!

Anyway, I think the situation will kind if “go away” if certain things are done in the offseason. As much as I’ve been villafied for my objection of Dunn/Burrell, adding a bat like that to hit behind JOGUI would probably settle him and the fans down quite a bit b/c Jose wouldn’t be the ‘only’ guy at that point (the same effect could be had by Butler/Gordon taking a drastic step forward next season).