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But when it comes to the M's blogosphere there's more to it. Dave Cameron (and to a lesser extent, Derek Zumsteg) has perpetuated the notion that the highest virtue is being objective, and the way to be achieve objectivity is to be hyper cynical. No one is allowed to get excited about a player or the team unless he says it's okay. He's the biggest wet blanket I've ever seen. He has also insisted that doing things the "right way" is the only way to operate, and if the org doesn't do things his way then they are imbeciles who can't even wipe the drool from their mouthes. This arrogance and negativity has infected the M's sabermetric fanbase and made things really unpleasant and often downright ugly.
The perfect illustration of this was the reaction to the John Jaso trade. The denizens of LL and USSM were absolutely frothing with vicious, uncontrolled anger even though Jaso was mediocre and we had a better catcher coming up through the system. They were completely irrational with rage, and yet they will insist that they are paragons of rationality who simply evaluate things using their cold, Vulcan logic.
USSM has done a huge service in educating the fanbase about sabermetrics, but they have also completely poisoned the well.