Sometimes you go a bit overboard in attacking people for anything remotely negative as though it is irrational ledge jumping – even when the post is far from it. This was an example of that, in my opinion. And just as I’m apparently annoying you, what you’re doing is annoying to me.

The team has faced a couple of good pitchers and a couple of not good pitchers in the last six games, and the walks weren’t there. A big part of that is our biggest BB guy (Bradley) was out. He’s back, and that will help a lot. Another part of it was that Haren was great. Cueto is not the strike-throwing machine that Haren is (gave up 6 BB against Houston, for example).

I agree with you that the struggling offense is going to be a short-term thing. But the patience hasn’t been there (for a variety of reasons), and the runs haven’t scored. They even talked about it in the pre-game, so it’s not an inane topic of discussion. The post did not deserve the “chill out” comment. Your first post illustrated your disagreement. The second post was unnecessary in my view. That was my point.

I don’t have a problem with attacking ledge jumpers. I do have a problem with telling people to chill out when it’s not necessary. I don’t point it out when you do it to ledge jumper posts, but I’ll continue to do it when I think you’re out of line. And you can feel free to point out whenever you disagree with me – I can take it, and I think it can actually encourage productive conversation, so long as people avoid unnecessary attacks/insults.

what sample size will impress you? And would did discount trends because it’s continuing. I’ve seen too many teams get in bad habits and the problems are not addressed until the hill to climb is too steep. As soon as we’re back to playing up to our talent level I’ll chill. Until then I’ll continue to call out bad baseball.