"Allright Ness, I don't think you knew the Bedard trade was a bad idea. No one did at the time. We didn't know he was a classless douchebag until he showed up in Seattle. Besides, Adam Jones sucks...really, he does. He is not that good." -ttzby13
I'd like to thank the commenter on the below post for allowing me to have a bit of fun. Rarely is a person wrong in so many ways in such a short period of time, so I salute you.
"I don't think you knew the Bedard trade was a bad idea" Nope. I was against it from the first rumor. I have an Adam Jones sign in my room. I have records of multiple emails I sent after the Bedard trade went down, most containing profanity and angry faces. If reader 'mbad' comes thru, he has my back on this.
"No one did at the time." Well, since I did, that's false, but a lot of other Mariners fans with more knowledge than me did as well. Here's one. Hey, here's another. And they're the two smartest guys in the Mariners blogosphere. Whaddya know.
"he was a classless douchebag" Huh? Because he doesn't answer the media's questions? As someone who knows the sports media pretty dang well, I can tell you that many of those reporters tread the line from inane to downright offensive, so I respect him for not taking their crap. But because he does this, he gets bad stuff written and said about him, calling him things like classless. By all accounts, away from the stadium he's a soft-spoken, humble, friendly guy. So put that in the 'wrong' column.
"Adam Jones sucks..." Now you're just being silly. Adam Jones is 23. He had 37 XBH's in 132 games, hit .270. Know what RZR is? A measure of who covers the most ground in the outfield. Know who was the best at it last year? Adam Jones. He has the biggest range in baseball. I repeat - he's 23. Do ya like Alex Rios? Because that's Jones in 3-4 years barring injuries. Either you are wildly, hilariously wrong, or you just have a huge definition of the word 'suck.' By your standards, maybe Albert Pujols is kinda alright at baseball and Ray Charles would have made a passable lounge singer.
Hey, that was fun. Remember, readers - this blog welcomes your comments!
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Oh Dear...
Well, Ness has already covered pretty much everything I would have to say in response to this comment. And for what it's worth, I do have his back that he (and myself) did not support the trade from the beginning of trade rumors.
Also, it bothers me that you do not provide any kind of supporting evidence in your post. I thank you for attempting to clarify your definition of suck ("He is not that good"), but we cannot have intelligent discourse here unless you give us a little more than that. Why do you think Adam Jones sucks? What kind of numbers are you using to back up that kind of claim?
In addition, please try to exclude ridiculous statements such as "we didn't know he was a classless douchebag". This does nothing to add to the argument. I don't care how much you were shepherded by the media's tirade - we can argue all day whether or not Bedard is a "good guy" or not, but in the end it's irrelevant because few of us actually have met him (and if you have, you're more than welcome to correct me).
-Mbad
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