Larry LaRue Fail
by Jon ~ September 25th, 2009
The News Tribune’s Larry LaRue has been taking little shots at the Seattle Times’ Geoff Baker for a while now. Here’s his latest:
A few of the Seattle Mariners were irritated, a few others amused this week that one of the beat writers not on this trip blogged that the six games to be played were ‘meaningless.’
So meaningless, his newspaper paid someone else to cover the Mariners on the road. And, of course, the lack of meaning hasn’t stopped him from blogging on.
I get what he’s trying to say, until he follows that up with this:
Since this season was never about contention for the Mariners – it was always about turning a franchise around – at what point do games lose any meaning?
Umm…
So LaRue is trying to kick dirt on Baker’s shoes because he called games that the players supposedly care about meaningless, but then goes on to say that contention wasn’t important. I think the players could be irritated by such a statement, Larry.
Fail.
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Dustin Shires
September 25th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
1) I love how you tagged it as a FAIL hahaa
2) I understand what he’s saying.
harrison
September 26th, 2009 at 1:02 am
You know i’ve noticed that Larry LaRue has really gone out of his way this year to really rag on Geoff Baker. I’m not a huge Geoff Baker fan by any means but after awhile I just stopped reading his articles Ryan Divish does it better.
Nice fail blog btw
MarinerMan6
September 26th, 2009 at 6:32 am
While I’m not a huge Baker fan, Larue is really crossing the line. The fact is he is a dinosaur in the business and maybe he sees the writing on the wall. His game logs add nothing unique and he is just writing what anyone who watches the game on TV could write. He ignores new technology while Baker embraces it. Baker certainly says many stupid things but he is making an effort to stay up with the times while LaRue is not, hopefully they give his job to Divish ASAP.
In addition, Baker is correct about the games that Felix does not start don’t have meaning. Especially when Wak plays guys like Beltre every day even when he won’t be here next year. He should be evaluating guys for next year, not playing the vets.
Dustin Shires Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Well, for me, I think that Beltre does hold value to the Mariners. He’s a Type B Free Agent right now, so, I’d like to think that the front office knows this, and that they’re showcasing him right now, trying to muster up any value that he can.
Had you said Bill Hall, I’d totally agree. There’s no reason Hall should be playing.
section331
September 27th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Wow. Can’t we all just get along? haha!
rdivish
September 27th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Thanks for the kind words in the comments, thanks for the smirks and chuckles I got from reading this post. Highly entertaining.
As for any possible feuds between media, I am neutral like Switzerland. But if there is ever a melee in the press box, I just hope a certain loudmouth, mid-morning radio host, who’s name rhymes with lofty, is there, cause I’ll jolly stomp his ass first and foremost.
Jon Shields Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
laugh. out. loud.
You’re the man, Ryan.
section331
September 28th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Huh. Dunno if you’ve noticed, Jon, but it appears that the article has been pulled off the site. I was going to try and actually read the whole thing, but the link is dead, and I can’t find it on TNT.
Ah, the internet is a marvelous, magical place…
Jon Shields Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Indeed it has been pulled. Luckily, because the internet is a marvelous and magical place, the money quotes will be forever preserved here.
The post still exists on the site’s RSS feed, but unfortunately TNT only has the first few words of their posts on the feed rather than the entire thing.
rdivish
September 29th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Sarcasm alert on the jollystomping thing. I don’t want to be accused of calling anyone out in the comments section of a post about calling people out.
As section 331 says, “can’t we all just get along?
section331
September 29th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Ryan – I don’t think anyone here would actually think you truly wanted to stomp on anyone. I learn something from pretty much every Mariners site I have bookmarked (which is pretty much all of them). Some of them may conflict with each other, and in such cases, I usually trust my own eyes or knowledge of a situation (or lack thereof) to form my own opinions. There are always going to be people who think this or that writer is the Best Thing Ever or the Worst Thing Ever. You can’t please everyone all the time.
I just roll with it.
SABR Matt
September 30th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Wow…good for you Shields! You got Ryan Divish’s attention!
And I agree…the weird stuff going on in the press blogs lately is as unproductive as the feud between USSM and jemanji/Dr. D