Steven Goldman who pens the Pinstriped Bible for the YES Network has this article this week. He essentially goes through the pros (lots) and cons (nothing) of keeping Jorge Posada in pinstripes. Last week, he jokingly/rhetorically suggested it was better to trade Captain Dreamboat Jeter than to trade catcher Jorge Posada (which is to say, don't trade him at all); to which he recived a lot of e-mails from those who didn't understand him. Some of it was obviously filled with crass invective, and so he had this to say:
Parenthetically, it's hard to imagine something less impressive than being ripped by a reader who hides behind an anonymous online handle. I never have a problem when a reader has a legitimate disagreement with an opinion expressed in this column. We're all about community here, and talking things over with the neighbors is one of the joys of being part of a community. When a reader doesn't make an argument but rather hurls invective from behind a nom de Internet, I don't see a neighbor with a point, but a coward who lacks both a point of view and the guts to stand up for himself.
I wholeheartedly agree with this paragraph so much I wanted to have it framed; instead I thought I'd bung it up here.
They do hang you for irony Mr. Goldman.
- Art Neuro
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