Longgone

They didn’t “leave him alone”, they were in agreement with what he needed to work on, and he worked on it.

Nowhere does that say he is not changing or working on anything, only that he wants to approach it more viscerally and not so analytically.

He never said he wasn’t changing anything. He said it wasn’t his swing that was the problem, it was other things. Totally misinterpreted.

He knew what he needed to work on, the Tigers knew, and he worked on it. This crap about him being resistant to change is just that.

Serenity Now!

? He’s only 25 and he’s only had the one full year. Lots of players struggle for the first few years in mlb. They either make the necessary adjustments or they don’t, remains to be seen.

Okay, if I have to, I’ll admit I actually believe you can feel shame, and we can be friends as long as you promise not to be irritating, ever again.

I was more expressing my irritation at the gratuitousness of it, rather than an attempt to shame you, which I know is a fool’s errand.

I’m talking more about taking a few random interview quotes and then building an elaborate fantasy universe filled with projected motivations and then acting as if pure assumptions are fact. I know, it’s the internet.

This has gone beyond the absurd to the ridiculous

Saying you don’t know **** is not the same as saying I know. I don’t, and I’m not willing to brand someone with baseless speculation.

Where did I ever say that?

The fact is, it’s just pointless speculation based on very little actual information. You don’t know how much, or to what degree he is utilizing resources, or really what are the actual issues that are holding him back. So any assumptions that he is uncooperative, or that the Tigers are displeased with anything regarding his efforts, other than production, are presumptuous.

And you just carry on being judgmental and making broad assumptions out of random comments

Is there a point to this, or will you just ramble on?