My question was whether Clement should be called up, and I cited his current stats without making a conclusion on them. I never said Clement should replace Johjima, so I don’t think Jeff’s “panic” argument applies.

Is Clement ready to supplant Burke and Norton offensively? Yes. Is Clement ready to supplant them defensively? Unknown, but they aren’t exactly defensive stars at their positions.

In regards to small sample sizes, I am not bitterly clinging to same.

There are TONS of places on the internet and in the M’s Blogosphere for everyone’s baseless knee jerk stupid s***, and I’m glad this place is free of that.

If you have a reason to disagree, be sure you can back up that assertion.

it’s nice to have someone talk about this without calling me an expletive or six.

I only call you those when you are right about bad news

I’m not sure that’s a good thing, though.

I do appreciate your thoughts on the subject, though – it’s nice to have someone talk about this without calling me an expletive or six.

I’d rather see all comments need moderation, or comments not allowed at all. As I emailed Jeff……I see quite often posts asking for support for the site, be it donations…or buying a book. I just think USSM would be in a lot better shape, with a lot less heartache all the way around

I care about information, not opinions. Information can be found in an opinion, but just an “I think x will happen” comment doesn’t add anything to any kind of discussion, in my opinion.

If that drives off people who just want a place to voice their opinions about everything, without regard to whether those opinions have any validity, then that’s totally fine with me. They have a ton of places to voice their opinion – there are scarcely few places for people who put time and thought into their opinions can have a discussion, and I’d like to keep this as one of those places.

And, I realize this sounds harsh, I just wish people were more aware of the validity of their own opinions. You shouldn’t care at all what I think about plumbing, electrical engineering, interior decorating, or modern dance. I have no information to add on any of those subjects, and I’m not offended in the least if someone regards any opinions I hold about those topics as worthless.

Am I a troll, hardly…..at one point i even offered hardware to go toward the USSM server…..and i read the site daily as part of my rounds to get a variety of opinions, not just from Dave, Derek, etc….but to see what the posters think as well.