My Computer Hates Me

I was trying to get this to post as a comment to the last post, but it's not working, so it goes here. With respect to yesterday's post and the comment there...

i didn't say he was going to be a bum, or that control was going to be a problem. i even said that he has quite good control.

i just was pointing out that while everyone's buzzing about the quality of his stuff, you need to look at the whole picture.

i've seen him twice and his fastball command has been spotty both times. i'm not drawing broad conclusions from it, but pretending i didn't see it doesn't make any sense.

Oh, and go read this. For all my general crankiness about the crappiness of spring training and the coverage, when 1) something unique pops up and 2) it's from someone who's been around more than a week and who knew to look for it in the first place; it's a good thing.

Related to that, if you want to see why I was cranky about spring training coverage, THIS is why. Ladies and gentlemen (and grizzled old fogies), that's called a microcosm.