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The paragraph was kind of tongue-in-cheek, my man Sandy in on the joke, laughing with him, rather than at him.
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Those arguments (like yours) that maintain we should fight for the pennant, but that Fielder is not the right way to do that, those arguments are not in view.  I respect those arguments 100%.
What I see, mostly, is arguments that we should avoid big commitments because the M's aren't ready to win yet.
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As you acknowledged, in no way am I saying that the reasoning is not sound, or that the supporters are being silly.  :- )
I'm opining that the nature of the situation is nonsensical.  To the extent that the system nukes a team's season before it even begins, to that extent the system is defeating its own purpose.
In fact, I would acknowledge (say) Sandy's arguments as reasonable, but oppose a system that would make such arguments reasonable.
Taro (for whom my vast respect is obvious) argues yearly that the Mariners are foolishly trying to be in races 'that they're not really in.'  He might be right.  If so, the system has been broken IMHO.
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In every sport, a truly inept organization is going to suffer consequences, but in MLB you've got most "decent" orgs ruled out in March ...
::daps::