I never said that your words were ludicrous. Nowhere. I just want you to go back and read my first two comments- all I did was question the logic of your strength of schedule concept. At no point did I say that you cant have your opinion or take shots at you. I only questioned your logic on this theme that recurs on the blog. At that point, you got defensive about me saying that you do it all the time and it devolved from there.

Then explain to me how, when I wrote:

“Lastly, a question for ya’ll. What do you think of the Minnesota Twins this year? They must be a great team, right? After all, the Yankees have barely beaten them now, for three games in a row, no? It’s been tooth and nail playing these Twinkies. Or, if you think Minnesota is not that good, what does that say about New York?”

that it is “ludicrous” – as you state. It’s a FAIR QUESTION, again, in MY OPINION. And, for anyone to call it a “bogus” or “ludicrous,” is just someone’s attempt to take a shot at me…

…but, I’ll say this: I am STUPID for engaging you guys on this – and I’m now done with that.

Steve Lombardi wrote:

Explain to me how my opinion on this matter is the same as saying that Al Aceves is better than Tim Lincecum.

It is not. I was picking a particularly ludicrous example to illustrate the idea that saying “hey, its my opinion” is not an answer to questions about the information and logic that you base those opinions on.

yagottagotomo1 wrote:

Steve, that’s a copout and you know it. There is such thing as a bogus opinion. I could say, in my opinion Al Aceves is better than Tim Lincecum. Just because I said it and defended it as my “opinion” doesn’t make it any less bogus.

Explain to me how my opinion on this matter is the same as saying that Al Aceves is better than Tim Lincecum.

very good point yagotta.

of course no response on steve’s wild math to even arrive at 6% in the first place.

Steve, that’s a copout and you know it. There is such thing as a bogus opinion. I could say, in my opinion Al Aceves is better than Tim Lincecum. Just because I said it and defended it as my “opinion” doesn’t make it any less bogus.

OldYanksFan wrote:

Steve – 6% is ‘too frequent’ on a bogus comment.

Gosh. I love you guys. “Bogus comment”? Dude, that “bogus comment” in my OPINION. What, I’m not allowed to have an opinion? Really? You guys really crack me up.

But, as I said last year, just about this time – thanks for the support!

http://waswatching.com/2008/04/09/some-housekeeping-on-comments-regarding-me/

Steve – 6% is ‘too frequent’ on a bogus comment. We all know you win it all by beating up on the weaker teams and playing .500 against the best teams. And Minn. is not even a weak team.

As people have pointed out, baseball is very unpredictable. A bad team with their #4 going should never beat a very good team with their #2, but it happens all the time. It’s a long season and indeed, a win is a win is a win.

We’ve taken 3 of 3 from Minn., the best possible outcome so far. So what’s to find wrong?

@ Raf:
Good to know.. Thanks…

Sicilian Lou wrote:

Hacker was on the 40 man roster prior to this move?… I don’t recall that…

Yep, he was DFA’ed to get *drumroll* Brett Tomko on the roster…