The whole Hardy thing

I think he's kind of being a bitch about the whole thing, like people are saying, when a player makes a move like the Brewers did, securing their financial future, doing what's best for themselves(in this case the whole team) then people look at it and say, well that's just a smart business move. When an organization does it, people look down on it like they are some sort of evil conglomerate trying to fuck everyone in the ass while they greedily steal money from anyone and everyone who steps into their path. As Juice added too, it's not like he's put himself in a position to not have this happen to him. Then he has the balls to say something like 'At first I felt OK. It would give me a chance to relax," said Hardy, who avoided arbitration this season by signing a one-year, $4.65 million deal in the winter. "But that's when my agent told me about the 20 days."'. Oh so you're willing to admit you're playing like shit, but it's ok because you have a different excuse now for why they sent you down?

I like Hardy, he's a good shortstop and the last two years he'd actually been hitting well, this year will probably not be indicative of the type of hitter he actually is, but business is business my friend and I hope we get a really good pitcher for you. That being said, I don't really like the way everyone pretty much knows now that we are locked into trading him this winter. Doesn't it seem like that would lower the asking price? Unless we get lucky and 2 or 3 teams start clamoring over him, if one team knows we want to move him, why wouldn't they just low ball us and say fuck you, play next year with 2 shortstops. I am slightly concerned...

Response to Bear's Post RE: Hardicourt

This was just going to be a comment, but again it got long.

Hardicourt just put up a follow up in which he did actually contact a "club source" which said they didn't know anything about a managerial change. Which is great information.

Then, he goes into a rant about what an asshole this blogger was. Well, TOM, had you not posted it in the first place, nobody probably would have even read it. Bloggers are generally (I am absolutely included here), by definition, opinions of people who don't have "sources", or whose sites are complete satire. There are a few bloggers that aren't necessarily affiliated with any conglomerate or newspaper that do have sources (i.e. profootballtalk.com) but even they get things wrong and speculate. Very, very hypocritical to post someones "regurgitated shit" as Bear called it, and then rip them for possibly being wrong. I have no problem with him saying there are bloggers stating it, and then checking into it with your sources and then saying they don't appear to be true. But why take the tune he did by calling it "irresponsible"? This appears to be another newspaper person who feels threatened by bloggers getting their scoops.

Now I hope Hardicourt's source was wrong. That would be the icing on the cake.

By the way, since Hardicourt didn't do it, here is the blogger's page . It even appears to me that this particular blog has it out for the "real media", which probably is the reason Hardicourt was such a dick when he allegedly proved the blogger wrong.

The irresponsibility of blogging

Today I read a couple interesting blog posts on jsonline.com. It seems that Tom Hardicourt, one of two main guys for the Journal-Sentinel that covers the Brewers, has just regurgitated a giant pile of shit in his blog. This really has nothing to do with my opinion of Yost, right now I'm in the mood of, fire his fucking ass and I would give two shits less, however the manner in which a reporter should conduct himself has been lost on Mr. Hardicourt. I've read some of his mailbags before, he's a very short tempered, condescending person in his response to reader's emails. It would be like giving me a job with JS and saying, meh write whatever you feel like, we're not gonna check shit or edit your work.

So back to the topic at hand, Hardicourt's regurgitated shit. He basically says in this blog posting, that's read by hundreds, probably thousands of Brewers fans within a day or two, that some guy named "Badger Blogger" says Yost just got fired. What? Ok, so even if this guy was a big deal in the world of blogging, he even claims himself that he was unable to confirm what he had just wrote. Why, if you were a reporter for a legitimate newspaper, would you regurgitate that shit onto your papers website? This guy's blog isn't even about sports, it's about politics. Is this what the world of reporting news has come to? In the face of the internet, people are so desperate to be the first one to post that something has happened that they are willing to just toss random quotes from blogging websites into their own articles on the off chance it might be true. Here's a thought, instead of using Mr. Badger Blogger's information, why don't you use your contacts within the team to try and get your own information Hardicourt? I'm sure they're better than Badger Blogger's inside guy that's spewing out information. Maybe write up an insightful article about the topic instead of being that guy that hits reply first on a topic on a message board and just types in "FIRST".

Before anyone comes down on me for regurgitating shit on this blog... I don't have the sources that Tom Hardicourt does, nor is this a job for me like it is for him.