Keith Law on Dunn

[MrMadison]

*le sigh* It's like a train wreck.

By John IV on Feb 13, 2009
I think some clarification is in order here, in regards to Bowden.

Keith, you and your guys here seem to be under the impression that we at WNFF all love Jim Bowden unconditionally, and are incapable or unwilling to see the faults in our team and its management. Rose Colored Glasses and such.

Pardon my language, but let me make this as clear as humanly possible: all of you are DEAD. ASS. WRONG.

I challenge any of you regulars here to come to our forum, and read anything other than the one Keith Law thread, and draw that conclusion. I assure you that it isn’t possible.

You guys, especially Keith, are making vast generalizations based on 2 or 3 people who took issue with your constant Nat-bashing, and responded to it with vitriol.

There are very few people who would actually be upset if Bowden were fired tomorrow. I’d say roughly 75% of Nats fans in general don’t like the guy. On our forum alone, there are probably 2 people out of all the posters there who actually *like* Bowden as a GM.

Yes, the Nationals are bad. We know that MUCH, MUCH better than any of you do, and we don’t really need it beaten into our skulls on a daily basis.

Now, I’ll give you three VERY GOOD reasons why we aren’t “Screaming for Bowden’s head”, as one of your commenters put it:

1) Most(but not all) of us have been screaming for his head since 2005, and it’s getting rather old.

2) Fire Jim Bowden does a pretty good job of it for us these days. Saves us a lot of time and energy. http://firejimbowden.blogspot.com/

3)We are too busy screaming at the Team’s Ownership for being a bunch of cheap asses to be worried about screaming at Bowden.

Lastly Keith, I’d say that your last statement here goes both ways. Keep in mind that here, on your personal website, YOU called out our entire forum of “whiny nats fans”(your words, not mine), based on the responses of about 3 people on the ESPN website.

Incidentally, I’d love to know which one of your commenters tried to register on our forum as “NATSARENTAREALTEAM”. I’m sure he was coming to our forum for an in-depth discussion on Nick Johnson’s plate discipline. This is where it is stated that you can’t control what your commenters do, and at which point I will say that we can’t control what all of our posters do either.

So I would like to think that “comporting themselves like adults” pendulum should swing both ways.

So let’s stick to the argument at hand, and cease with the blame game, please. K?

[The Chief]

I just made my final posting there, I'd encourage everyone else to move on as well.  Opinions are just that, and there's no sense wasting anymore time over this.

I'm making the call and locking this thread, if anyone really thinks it needs to remain open, you can make your case to me via PM.

[tomterp]

BTW, wasn't Law a BP guy? Maybe tomterp can confirm or deny that. 

FORMER BP guy, proud to say!

PECOTA has the Nats with 77 wins BEFORE Dunn, so anybody wanting to read rosy scenarios instead of doom and gloom, plunk down your $40.