Headline: Dodgers make asinine free-agent signing

First of all, it's a crime that "asinine" is spelled with only one "s".

More to the point, the Dodgers have (pending a physical) signed free agent Juan Pierre to a five year contract worth roughly $45 million. Juan Pierre has one skill: he can run. The problem is that his batting averages are a bit misleading because his on base percentages have never been high, and he has less pop in his bat than just about anybody in the Major Leagues. (The former problem is the more acute one by far.) Basically, Pierre is a #8 or #9 hitter who has consistently been misacast as a lead-off hitter. The other problem is that Pierre isn't actually a good fielder---he just outruns his mistakes.

This is a bad, bad move on our part. I hope Pierre fails his physical because it looks like that's the only we way can get out of this.

To quote Darth Vader, "Nooooooooooooooooo!"

Mea culpa

I just deleted a post. (Aside from accidental duplicates, I think this is the first time I've done this.)

So, in my usual lack of filtering way (because I really do almost always speak/write before I think), I made a joke which intended to have losers like me as the target. I believe that all I did in the process was piss off people who read the comment (at least one I know and one I don't), prove my point that I'm a loser, and give Lemming a good laugh (which I suppose is equivalent to the second point I just made).

After I got the first comment (the second arrived while I was answering the first), I reread the actual text of what I wrote and certainly saw other ways to read the comment than what I intended.

So, the best I can do is remove the post, apologize again, hope that my friends are all still my friends, and hope that people who I don't know who read that (and don't have all those other wonderful interactions with me upon which to draw) don't think I'm a complete waste of carbon.

The post was meant to be provocative---but what I wanted to do was discuss the abstract and why that guy was questioning "self-evident" things (his quotes because he was questioning them) that I do consider self-evident.

While I already know my abilities to see things through others' eyes are really poor, perhaps they are even poorer than I thought.

I'll be happy to provide further explanations (and copies of the comments people put on the post) in private discussion.