Before this thing gets too far out of hand a few facts should be clarified.

1.) Past performance in a PB season is not an indicator of future performance in the same PB season. A better indicator is the raw stats. So I reject all discussion of "how they have done so far in PB this year" as irrelevant to the discussion.

But if it were relevent then....

2.) Brian is platooning David Bell a lot. The numbers Bell has put up are:

.340 AVG, .457 SLG, .410 OBP in 105 PA (mainly against LHP)

Arod's numbers for me

.302 AVG, .571 SLG, .371 OBP in 273 PA.

Does anyone really believe that Bell is going to help me?

3.) I never said to Brian "you are stupid." I did say (when emotional) that the offer was stupid and the rationalization of the stupid offer was also stupid. The direct quote was "The stupidity of your offer is exceeded only by the stupidity of your rationalization."

We can debate whether that comment was innapropriate but be certain that I did not say that the person was stupid, I said the offer was stupid.

Note--- That Brian took the comments public and identified himself.


I could say more but I'll save it for later.