A Short Course in History
Yes, I'm interrupting my interruption of myself but I want to comment on this while it's fresh. Seattle Times writer Geoff Baker, who was until recently a baseball writer in Toronto covering the Jays, had an interesting piece on his blog yesterday on the reaction to the new Mariners GM and digresses a bit into the similarities to the reaction in Toronto when JP was hired. A couple of qualifiers here: first, you can't simply take any journalist's word for anything, you always employ a grain of salt (If Richard Griffin has taught us nothing else...) and opinions are especially in play on blogs; second, it's relevant to my point here that Baker is NOT a fan of JP Ricciardi and never was. He was, by his own admission, ambivalent at first and grew into obvious distaste. Those qualifiers in place, I think that what he had to say about...
