Argue the content, don’t disparage the writer. I don’t have much hope for stras becoming a good pitcher again, but it’s not Davey’s fault. Zuckermans tweet was perfectly fine and I’ve had no problem with him as a beat writer
I thought my post was clearly about 'Nationals News' as an entity, but obviously not. I just think that both player and manager would have earned more respect if they'd just fronted-up and said 'OK - we misjudged that, we'll re-evaluate', rather than trying to claim that over-stressing our star pitcher was all expected and planned for. In my book, that would be one strange plan.'Martinez had emphasized the Nationals wanted Strasburg to be full-go when he returned' - not only was that clearly not the case, but DM even misjudged against a benchmark of his own choosing, which just compounds the error.
Equally, “The funny thing is, he didn’t use it (changeup) the first inning and then he didn’t use it again the fifth inning. He understands that he’s got to throw that. … ' When did he 'understand' that? If at the mound, why didn't he do it - or worse, did he understand but still, regardless of the consequences, still actively chose not to throw it? If they mean 'he understands' as in 'because we've now told him' then would it not be of concern that an experienced pitcher didn't see it, with an outcome we all know.