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Was that last (unnecessarily inflammatory) statement necessary? Not everyone is going to agree with the assertion that Americans are any less patient than Frenchmen.
Not to mention the fact that you're creating a straw man when you assume that people wanting Ackley up now are ALL just thinking of 2011...some of us MIGHT be thinking the more ABs Ackley gets now, the better he'll be in 2012...some of us might even be thinking that the better the W-L record in 2011 is, the more likely the Mariners will be to land that next important free agent. And some of us might also be thinking that Ackley is OWED his call-up at this point...it's only fair. And some of us might EVEN be thinking that the Mariners owe us their best effort to stay competitive...and that effort MIGHT include giving some of Figgins' at bats to Kennedy (the .700+ OPS guy who's holding together 2B right now) and cutting Jack "Suck-factor" Wilson and giving Luis Rodriguez some of Ryan's at bats. And hey...some of us might even be thinking that there is more talent arriving soon and it might be beneficial to stagger the arrival times enough that not everyone hits arb3 at the same time. Or that we need to know NOW whether Ackley CAN play 2B in the bigs. Or a hundred other things that you casually dismiss as imprudent, impatient "give it to us NOW" mentality that you also falsely ascribe to the whole gosh darned country.