I have removed a couple of the feeds that Dave has on his page, and I added about three that he does not have. Completely personal preference of course, but now when I want to get my update of NW baseball tweets, I can just ping that web page.

It’s an idea for anyone like me who wants to just see tweets on the web periodically and not all the time on a smart phone.

So the local press gets the re-signs and the arb-avoiding moves, but anything involving other teams – not so much.

Baker may be better than what we had before, but he’s getting quite tiresome now with his transparent attempts to manufacture news and/or controversy.

Have I mentioned, joser, just how much I enjoy your comments? You consistently crack me up.

I don’t know if you have or not (I’m not good at keeping track of who said what, and am always surprised when people do that with my comments). But thank-you: I have little ability to do actual baseball analysis so I fall back on wit and a thesaurus.

If the USSM crew ever recruit a commenter to become an author, I hope it’s joser that they recruit.

Cough. Ok, now this is getting silly. I suspect that Felix contract giddiness is infecting everyone, and we’re all going to wake up in the morning with a metaphorical empty bottle, splitting headache, and dead hooker.

That may be metaphorical for some of us, anyway.

I appreciate the compliment, and I’m glad I can entertain some of you some of the time, but this right here is about the most I do. I’m not even amusing in real life as far as I know, and I don’t think I could initiate an article. At best I could do goofy imitation analysis. It’s like those old westerns: Dave and Derek are the nameless drifters with the fast draw and sketchy pasts, who fortuitously arrive just in time to protect the town from the desperadoes. When the final showdown happens there’s always a town drunk with a rifle who shoots at something and misses…and when that happens there’s a guy in a recording studio making the fake pu-tui noises for the ricochet. I’m that guy.

It’s a valuable perspective that she offers, and it’s not one that the fans of many other teams regularly get (from what I’ve seen). We should feel lucky to have her.

Amen to that. I have never been very impressed with the competition to break a story a few minutes before it is announced publicly anyway. Ms. Drayer’s ability to get stories that would otherwise go unreported/undiscovered is far more valuable to me.

Tough to be a reporter… isn’t this post a little bit of a slap in the face of our local media? Sure, it’s all true, but hopefully we don’t lose any more of our local reporters.

I know I’d be pissed, especially if I was Baker. It kinda makes me sad …. kinda

I’ve just encountered other opinions in some forums, trivializing her contribution, or outright being abusive in comments on her own blog.

Glad I’ve missed that.

My, some … interesting … comments over there.