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.