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I'll be the contrarian. The fawning over this article and its author is making me nauseous. His point, that Lincoln/Armstrong are inept and ruining the franchise aren't new and haven't been unstated. This blog has taken that position for years. Turn on either of the towns two main sports talk stations and you'll hear somebody make that point almost every time the Mariners are brought up. What's different with Baker is his completely amoral approach in how he tackles the subject. Just like in the Lucas Luetge situation Baker takes aim at the front office and uses other peoples heads as battering rams to achieve his goals.
There is a large difference between a hard hitting article and a hit piece. Giving an angry, fired ex employee a platform to attack UNCHALLENGED and without disclaimer or qualifiers is irresponsible and unethical. It doesn't matter if the subject chooses not to comment. A contrary quote from someone else or a sentence or two admitting the sources bias is mandatory. That's the difference between balance and tabloid hit pieces.
Would anybody here want their ex wife to be given a high profile public platform to attack them? Mine would only be too happy to tell the world that I worship the devil every Sunday and I stomp on kittens in my free time for fun.
Think that's hyperbole? You need to spend some time reading the New York/Boston/LA sports tabloids. (Actually don't do that to yourself.) Divorce documents and ex wife quotes can and do find there way into sports hit pieces. In my book quoting fired ez employees is only half a step above one from an ex wife.
If Geoff Baker were not interested in sports i think he'd fit right in at TMZ. Is this where we want sports journalism to go in this town?

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